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FORECAST 8: THE SELECTED MENTEES 2023

Announcing the Six Projects in Forecast’s Eighth Edition

Forecast Mentorships for Audacious Minds enters its concentrated mentoring phase as each mentor has now selected one project to continue to accompany to its completion. →

Forum 8, July 14–16, 2023

A Spotlight on 18 New Boundary-Pushing Projects

Join the Forecast Forum in Berlin's Radialsystem for a weekend of thought-provoking experiences conceived by audacious practitioners from all over the world. →

Forecast 8: Forum Participants and Dates Announced

Discover the Nominated Projects

The six international mentors of Forecast 8 have each selected three projects for the Forecast Forum in July, where all eighteen nominated ideas will be unveiled. →

Forecast 7: It’s a Wrap!

Watch the Recap of the 2023 Forecast Festival

Forecast 7 culminated in a two-day event which marked the conclusion of the 2022-23 edition. From March 17–18, the mentees premiered their projects at Radialsystem and the mentors each presented unique work. In addition, LINA fellows Studio Inscape and Tevi Allan Mensah offered workshops relating to their respective practices as urbanists and architects. →

Forecast Festival: Peny Chan

Finding and Redefining the Concubine’s Voice

Malaysian singer and performer Peny Chan casts a female gaze on the Peking Opera and finds her voice within it by teasing out the tensions between tradition and the contemporary moment. →

Forecast Festival: Hamza Baig

Humor as a Resilient and Transcendent Remedy

Comedy anchors filmmaker Hamza Baig’s project The Marblous Four, which revives a traditional Pakistani game to imagine a homegrown superhero. →

Forecast Festival: Tom Cassani

Participating in Feats of Wonder

Tom Cassani uses wonder to conjure conversations about the nature of perception and call for a shared understanding of truth. →

Forecast Festival: Luciana Decker Orozco

Reworlding Stories to Embody Collectivity

Luciana Decker Orozco’s film installation draws upon ancient oral traditions from the Bolivian Andes that imbue nature with personhood to revere and protect it. →

Forecast Festival: Alexis Guillier

The Latent Politics of Filmset Accidents

Alexis Guillier’s project explores what happens when, instead of moving past accidents in Lebanon, we investigate them. →

Forecast Festival: Mia Stark

To Optimize Your View, Let Things Get a Bit Absurd First

The deadpan humor of Mia Štark’s project An Anthology of Glances is an opportunity to understand the wealth of perspectives available through our bodies. →

Forecast Festival 2023

Experience New Cutting-Edge Projects

Forecast 7 will culminate in a two-day event at Radialsystem on March 17–18. The entire venue will be activated through boundary-pushing contributions by the mentors and mentees including stand-up comedy, deconstructed magic, cinematic explorations, and vocal experimentations. →

The Work-Stay: Las Vegas

Tom Cassani Challenges Our Willingness to Be Deceived

Tom Cassani tests the limits of body-based illusion while mapping new territories in contemporary performance practices. In February, he visited Las Vegas with his mentor Florentina Holzinger to explore the long-running shows in this center of entertainment. →

The Work-Stay: Digital

Hamza Baig Portrays a Community with Humor and Drama

Comedy anchors filmmaker Hamza Baig’s project, which revives a traditional Pakistani game to imagine a homegrown female superhero for a live-action series. He worked on the show's script with his mentor Daliso Chaponda in concentrated digital sessions. →

The Work-Stay: Beirut

Alexis Guillier Explores the Latent Politics of a Film Set Accident

Alexis Guillier and his mentor, investigative reporter Alia Ibrahim, met in Beirut in mid-January to deepen his artistic research into the deadly fire that broke out on the set of a film by Lebanese director Gary Garabedian in the late 1960s. →

FORECAST 8: THE CALL FOR IDEAS HAS ENDED

The Nominees Will Be Announced on May 9, 2023 →

OPEN CALL 2023

Apply to Forecast 8

We’re happy to announce the six new mentors in Forecast's eighth edition and the call for ideas. →

The Work-Stay: Barcelona

Artist Mia Štark Turns Expectations on Their Head

Mia Štark and her mentor, artist Ana Prvački, traveled to Barcelona in early December for a concentrated work-stay at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, where they deepened Štark's research into habits of looking and seeing, and how these can be altered and challenged by using the body in unexpected ways. →

The Work-Stay: Berlin

Peny Chan Brings the Female Gaze to the Peking Opera

Malaysian singer and performer Peny Chan and her mentor Rully Shabara met in Berlin in mid-November to work on Chan’s composition, which reimagines the character of the concubine in the Peking opera. →

The Work-Stay: London and Paris

Luciana Decker Orozco's Film Narrates Nature's Personhod

Bolivian filmmaker Luciana Decker Orozco and her mentor Laura Huertas Millán got together to conceptualize the film's pre-production and reflect on the decolonial practices the work employs. →

Forecast Presents

Driving the Human: Seven Prototypes for Eco-social Renewal

From November 25–27, 2022, Driving the Human mounts a three-day festival that marks the culmination of three years of transdisciplinary collaboration, research, and experimentation connecting the sciences and the arts. →

Revisit: Segundo Bercetche and Tomi Lebrero

The Bandoneon Returns

Argentinian musicians Segundo Bercetche and Tomi Lebrero participated in Forecast 5, in 2020, as nominees in the mentorship field Future Traditions in Music under composer and performer Du Yun. Their project evolved around the layered history of the bandoneon, a German instrument which found its way to Argentina in the nineteenth century, where it became the instrument of choice for folk musicians playing in cabarets and brothels. In the fall of 2022, two years after they conceived the project idea for Forecast, Bercetche and Lebrero released a record and traveled to the German region from which the bandoneon had originated to find out more about its history. →

Forecast 7: The Selected Mentees 2022

Announcing the Six Projects in Forecast’s Seventh Edition

On the weekend of July 15–17, Forecast and Radialsystem invited the public to experience 18 multidisciplinary projects by artists, musicians, performers, researchers, filmmakers, and comedians. →

Forecast Forum 7, July 15–17, 2022

Experience 18 Trailblazing Projects

Join the Forecast Forum in Berlin's Radialsystem for a weekend full of thought-provoking experiences conceived by audacious thinkers from all over the world. →

Forecast 7: Forum Participants and Dates Announced

See the Nominated Projects

The six international mentors of Forecast 7 have each selected three projects for the Forecast Forum in July. →

Forecast 6: It’s a Wrap!

Watch the Recap of the Sixth Forecast Festival, 2022

Following a ten-month collaboration with their mentors, the six artists, performers, designers, choreographers, and creative thinkers of Forecast 6 premiered their works at the Forecast Festival, on April 8–9, at radialsystem in Berlin. →

Forecast Festival 2022

Forecast 6 will culminate in a two-day event

The entire venue will be activated through interactive artworks and sensory experiences, guided walkthroughs, workshops, and showcases. See the full program here. →
Iman Jesmi in Rome. Photo: Francesco Daverio Russomanno ©Forecast 2022.

The Work-Stay: Rome

Iman Jesmi Captures Cities as Sonic and Olfactory Scapes

Iranian composer and sound artist Iman Jesmi and his mentor Emeka Ogboh traveled to Rome in early March, where they were hosted for a Work-Stay at the MAXXI Museum. →

The Work-Stay: Antananarivo and Bucharest

Simona Deaconescu Traces a Dance Epidemic

Choreographer Simona Deaconescu and her mentor Mathilde Monnier got together in Bucharest in late March to finetune the performance Ramanenjana, which explores the 1863 “dance epidemic“ in Madagascar. Before meeting in Bucharest, Deaconescu and her dancers spent a nearly month-long work-stay in Antananarivo, Madagascar. →
Özge Samancı and Ulli Lust ©Adrien Dournel

The Work-Stay: Angoulême

Özge Samancı and Ulli Lust at the International Comics Festival

Özge Samancı is working on a novel set in mid-90s Istanbul. Through the main characters and plot, she explores what it was like to be a woman in 1990s Turkey, and looks at the roots of today's political situation there. Samancı met with her mentor Ulli Lust at the international comics festival in Angoulême to present the work to industry insiders. →

The Work-Stay: Hamburg

Jaya Klara Brekke Imagines a Way Out of Surveillance Capitalism

Jaya Klara Brekke is an artist and cryptographic geographer whose work spans technology, academia, and the arts, always focusing on questions of power in emerging decentralized technologies, cryptographic techniques, and data economies. In mid-March, Brekke and her mentor at Forecast, digital policy expert Francesca Bria, met for a work-stay at The New Institute in Hamburg. →

The Work-Stay: New York

Luísa Sol Confronts Suburban Utopia

Portuguese architect and researcher Luísa Sol and her mentor, architect Tatiana Bilbao, spent a week in New York together as part of their work-stay. →

The Work-Stay: Paris and Marseille

Flora Détraz’s Cri de Coeur

Flora Détraz and her mentor Sofia Jernberg had planned a two-part work-stay in Paris and Marseille, during which Détraz rehearsed with musicians to first experiment, and then fine-tune her performance piece HURLULA. →

Forecast 7: The Call for Ideas Has Ended

The Nominees Will Be Announced on May 4, 2022 →

Open Call 2022

Apply to Forecast's Mentorship Program

We're happy to announce the mentors in Forecast’s seventh edition and call for ideas. →

REVISIT: ABHIJAN TOTO

Building Communities through Collective Curating

Curator Abhijan Toto participated in the third edition of Forecast, working with mentor David Elliott, also a curator, toward presenting The Exhaustion Project at the 2018 Forecast Festival. The work probed the relationship between labor, self-care, and the exhausted body to ask whether subversion becomes accessible through communal exhaustion. “We often forget that we’re doing politics with our bodies,” Toto pointed out. “That’s where exhaustion sets in.” →

Forecast Forum 2021

Watch the Recording of the Sixth Forecast Forum

From September 9–11, 2021, the nominees in Forecast’s sixth edition shared their projects with the public in a livestreamed digital event. A recording of the three-day Forum is now available here. →

The Selected Mentees 2021

Announcing the Six Projects in Forecast’s Sixth Edition

The nominees showcased their work at the Forecast Forum, livestreamed from their locations around the world. →

The Sixth Forecast Forum

Join the Livestream from September 9–11

The digital Forecast Forum will feature showcases and discussions with the eighteen nominees, handpicked by the mentors, who will share their projects with the public for the first time. →

A Project by Walter Palmetshofer

Trust Zone Experiment

Economist and Net activist Walter Palmetshofer is a nominee in the category Data Democracy and the Green Transition, overseen by Francesca Bria. →

A Project by Awuor Onyango

Woman (of) Substance

Artist Awuor Onyango is nominated in the category Sensing the World, mentored by Emeka Ogboh, with a project that explores how much of Kenya’s history can be uncovered through a mother’s personal history of scents. →

A Project by Yasmin Schönmann

The Other Space

Video artist and dancer Yasmin Schönmann is a nominee in the category From Stories to Spaces, mentored by Tatiana Bilbao. Her proposal encompasses a community-run, mixed-use art space. →

A Project by Sarah Oberrauch

Playground Stories

Curator and educator Sarah Oberrauch is nominated in the category From Stories to Spaces, mentored by Tatiana Bilbao. Her proposal is an imaginative playground that would stimulate children's creativity rather than include objects meant for directed use. →

A project by Jaya Klara Brekke

Dashboards for Posthuman Life

Theorist and designer Jaya Klara Brekke is a nominee in the category Data Democracy and the Green Transition, overseen by digital policy expert Francesca Bria. She proposes fictional data feeds that help users to better understand the impact of their actions on the environment and their own privacy. →

A Project by Simona Deaconescu

Ramanenjana

Simona Deaconescu is nominated in the category Unlimited Gestures, mentored by Mathilde Monnier. She proposes a performative docufiction project looking at Madagascar’s 1863 dancing plague from a contemporary perspective. →

A Project by M.S. Harkness

Time Under Tension

M.S. Harkness is nominated in the category Translating Sensations, mentored by Ulli Lust. Her project for Forecast is a 260-page graphic memoir which examines the author’s life in her twenties as she uses movement and weightlifting to find balance while living with past sexual trauma. The narrative takes place over one year of her life as she becomes a certified personal trainer. →

A Project by Flora Détraz

C–R–I

Dancer and choreographer Flora Détraz is nominated in the category Sound as Organized Time, mentored by Sofia Jernberg. For Forecast, she is creating a solo performance centered on the act of screaming. →

A Project By Talia De Vries

SUN

An interest in the theory of photography led dancer and choreographer Talia de Vries to examine duration and stillness in her work, time and frozen time. As a nominee in the category Sound as Organized Time, mentored by Sofia Jernberg, she proposes an expansion of her research into choreography and voice with a slow-noise performance which focuses on the intense and vibrant passage between a still and moving image, a photo and its soundtrack. →

A Project by Ness Ilene Graza

The Mosquito

A nominee in the category Translating Sensations, mentored by Ulli Lust, Ness Ilene Garza proposes a graphic novel she describes as a "spiritual thriller." →

A Project by Iman Jesmi

Sensory Souvenir

Iranian composer and sound artist Iman Jesmi is nominated in the category Sensing the World, mentored by artist Emeka Ogboh.  His project explores the correlation between sounds and smells in European cities, and how they have shifted through immigration. →

A Project by Rylan Gleave

KITH

Composer and performer Rylan Gleave is nominated in the category Sound as Organized Time, mentored by Sofia Jernberg. He will work on a new music-theater piece exploring the changing timbres of his late-breaking voice, three years into artificial testosterone treatments. →

A Project by Luísa Sol

Architectures of Inclusion and Exclusion

Architect Luísa Sol is nominated in the category From Stories to Spaces, mentored by Tatiana Bilbao. Her proposal is a reflection on screen-based images of the home and the domestic sphere, and the possible storytelling contained within them. →

A Project by Timothy Lee

Explorations of Budaejigae (Army Base Stew)

Multidisciplinary artist Timothy Hyunsoo Lee is a nominee in the field Sensing the World, mentored by Emeka Ogboh. He proposes an investigation and deconstruction of the titular national Korean dish that balances distinctly Korean flavors with American goods introduced during the United States’s military presence and occupation in South Korea. →

A project by Aída Herrera Peña

Gestures of Domestic Memories: A performative way-of-knowing

Designer, dancer, and researcher Aída Herrera Peña is nominated in the category Unlimited Gestures, mentored by Mathilde Monnier, with a project that examines domestic work through an embodied and experiential exploration of gestures. →

A Project by Pamela Breda

The Unexpected: Inquiries into Human–AI Interaction

Artist and filmmaker Pamela Breda is a nominee in the category Data Democracy and the Green Transition, overseen by digital policy expert Francesca Bria. Breda's project comprises a visual and theoretical exploration of the impact of AI interfaces and digital assistants on human rights, with a focus on the field of mental healthcare. →

A Project by Özge Samancı

Evil Eye

Media artist and graphic novelist Özge Samancı is a nominee in the category Translating Sensations, mentored by cartoonist Ulli Lust. Her project for Forecast centers on a murder mystery set in Istanbul ahead of the 1995–96 elections, as a conservative party rises to power using religion to cynically appeal to voters. →

A Project by Samaké Moussa

Kouma Féréleen

Burkinabe dancer and choreographer Samaké Moussa is a nominee in the category Unlimited Gestures, mentored by Mathilde Monnier. For Forecast, he proposes a work that engages with by his own difficult biography and the redemptive power he had found in dance. →

Forecast 6: Nominees Announced

The Six Mentors Have Each Selected Three Projects

Forecast again enables an extended mentoring period for all eighteen nominees. →

Forecast Festival, Edition 5

Watch the Recording of the Two-Day Festival

The six mentees of Forecast's fifth edition unveiled their productions at the Forecast Festival, which took place as a hybrid event staged at radialsystem and streamed online on April 9–10, 2021. →

Forecast Festival 5: Conversations

Watch the Conversations in Full Length

The mentees and mentors of Forecast's fifth edition invited leading figures in their fields to engage in conversations around their projects at the Forecast Festival. →

Forecast Festival, Edition 4

Watch the Recording of the Hybrid Festival

Following the postponement of the fourth edition’s closing event by a year due to the pandemic, the Festival was livestreamed from radialsystem in Berlin on April 1–2, 2021. →

Forecast Festival 4: Conversations

Watch the Talks in Full Length

The mentees and mentors of Forecast's fourth edition invited leading figures in their fields to engage in conversations around their projects. →

In Conversation

Ozoz Sokoh on Food as a Key to a Culture

In the days leading up to the fifth Forecast Festival, Sokoh spoke to writer Olamiju Fajemisin about her practice, and why she thinks the transatlantic stories of certain food items belong in museums. →

The Work-Stay: Digital Encounters

Connecting through Cooking

Andrea Nones-Kobiakov was about to board a plane from Mexico City to Curitiba, Brazil, when she received the message that her work-stay with Manu Buffara, her mentor in the category Cooking for Change, couldn’t take place as planned. What would have been their first physical encounter since the beginning of the fifth edition of Forecast had been ultimately called off. Instead, the two decided to hold a series of digital cooking sessions, open to anyone interested in experimenting with recipes. →

The Work-Stay: Kumasi

Deep Collaborations in Ghana

Jonathan Reus and his mentor in the Future Traditions in Music category, Du Yun, travelled to Kumasi, Ghana, in early February 2021—after having taken all necessary safety measures—where they were hosted by another Forecast 5 participant, Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi, at her interdisciplinary residency program pIAR. →

The Work-Stay: Berlin

Adéola Ọlágúnjú and Tobias Zielony at radialsystem

Ọlágúnjú traveled to Lagos weeks before the work-stay to record sound for her mixed-media work Born Throw Way! In Berlin, she and Zielony planned the installation in situ. →

The Work-Stay: Lulea

Only Game in Town in the Belly of the Beast

In late February 2021, Only Game in Town and the three performers in their durational piece LD50: The Vorkoster traveled to Lulea, in northern Sweden, for a two-week work-stay with mentor Markus Öhrn in his studio. →

Forecast Festivals 2021

Editions 4 and 5 Culminate in Hybrid Events

The Festivals will be livestreamed from radialsystem in Berlin on April 1–2 and April 9–10 →

The Call for Ideas Has Ended

The Nominees Will Be Announced on May 5, 2021 →

Open Call 2021

Send Us Your Project Idea

We're happy to announce the mentors in Forecast’s sixth edition and call for ideas. →

The Collective of Collectives Presents:

Nasty Temple Radio

Listen to the first installment of the show, which will be continued at the fourth Forecast Festival in April. →
Isaac Chong Wai, Falling Carefully, (2020)
 Courtesy of Asia Society, Blindspot Gallery and Zilberman.

Revisit: Isaac Chong Wai

Prophetic Performances

Artist Isaac Chong Wai processes societal shifts, global tensions, and collective traumas into multifaceted works that span performance, installation, video, photography, and painting. Capturing Forecast’s cross-disciplinarity, he participated in its second edition in 2017 as a nominee in the Choreography category, with Richard Siegal as mentor, and worked alongside dancers and choreographers as his fellow nominees rather than with visual artists. This opened his performance-art practice to new and perhaps unexpected experimentation. →

Forecast Forum 2020

Watch the Recording of the Digital Forum

From October 29—31, 2020, the nominees in Forecast’s fifth edition shared their projects with the public in a livestreamed digital event. A recording of the three-day Forum is now available here. →
Forecast Mentees Edition 5

The Selected Mentees 2020

Announcing the Six Projects of Forecast’s Fifth Edition

For the first time since the program’s inauguration in 2015, the Forecast Forum took place digitally rather than as a physical event in Berlin. →
Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [crazinisT artisT]

A Project by Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [crazinisT artisT]

Emergency CODE: pAUSE and pULSE

Artist and performance curator Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi is a nominee in the category Resistance through Duration, mentored by Markus Öhrn. She will investigate the relationship between contemporary performance art, rituals and performative artifacts, and organic and inorganic materials. →
Elijah Ndoumbé

A Project by Elijah Ndoumbé

Bienvenue À Ma Table

A nominee in the category Cooking for Change, mentored by Manu Buffara, multidisciplinary artist Elijah Ndoumbé’s project for Forecast is a multimedia eating experience for a live audience. →
Lulu Obermayer

A Project by Lulu Obermayer

Frauenliebe und Leben

A nominee in the category Resistance through Duration, mentored by Markus Öhrn, Lulu Obermayer engages with female subjectivity, agency, and representation in the context of operas and classical music. →
Aude Christel Mgba

A Project by Aude Christel Mgba

Ne Touche Pas À Mon 237

Curator Aude Christel Mgba is a nominee in the category Curating as Unearthing, mentored by Koyo Kouoh. Her project encompasses an itinerant independent institution, whose first iteration is titled Ne touche pas à MON 237. →
Andrea Nones-Kobiakov

A Project by Andrea Nones-Kobiakov

Whatever That Ground May Be

Artist Andrea Nones-Kobiakov is a nominee in the category Cooking for Change, mentored by Manu Buffara. She works across photography, performance, and site-specific installations to pursue themes that reflect on displacement and comfort through the materiality of food and ingredients. →
Ozoz Sokoh

A Project by Ozoz Sokoh

Coast to Coast: From West Africa to the World

Ozoz Sokoh explores the legacy of West African culinary excellence with a project nominated in the category Curating as Unearthing, mentored by Koyo Kouoh. →
Joana Moll

A Project by Joana Moll

Inanimate Species

Artist and researcher Joana Moll is nominated in the category Dissecting Technocapitalism, mentored by Evgeny Morozov, with a project that examines the correlation between microprocessors and animal extinction. →

A Project by Matthew C. Wilson

Factitious Flora

Visual artist and experimental filmmaker Matthew C. Wilson is nominated in the category Still Images, Loud Voices, mentored by Tobias Zielony. His proposal investigates, images, and reimagines possible plant formations. →
PostRational

A Project by PostRational

CYBER-WASTE

Nominated in the category Dissecting Technocapitalism, mentored by Evgeny Morozov, PostRational deploys methods of research, speculative fiction, and world-building as critical design tools with which to explore questions outside the realm of conventional design and architecture. →
Segundo Bercetche and Tomi Lebrero

A Project by Segundo Bercetche and Tomi Lebrero

Eternal Procession

As nominees in the category Future Traditions in Music, mentored by Du Yun, musicians Segundo Bercetche and Tomi Lebrero propose a project that gives new life to a traditional instrument with a complex history. →
Myriam Amroun

A Project by Myriam Amroun

Programming Rhizome

Myriam Amroun is a cultural practitioner and a curator based in Algiers. She is the artistic director of the cultural organization rhizome, which she cofounded in 2017. Her proposal for Forecast in the category Curating as Unearthing, mentored by Koyo Kouoh, encompasses a public program on the occasion of rhizome's first physical exhibition space. →
Mafalda Rakoš

A Project by Mafalda Rakoš

Stop & Go—A Hitchhiker's Finger on the Pulse of Time

Mafalda Rakoš is a documentary photographer trained as an anthropologist. She is nominated in the category Still Images, Loud Voices, mentored by Tobias Zielony, with a project that delves into the social psychology of Europe’s highway system, with a destination yet to be determined. →
Only Game in Town

A Project by The Only Game in Town

LD50: The Vorkoster

In the category Resistance through Duration, mentored by Markus Öhrn, Only Game in Town (Louise Pons and Mirjam Schaal) propose a series of performances in which three fictional nominees will enter the stomach of a living human being: the Vorkoster. →
©Martin Falck

A Project by Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo

MOTHERNIGHT

For her project in the category Future Traditions in Music, mentored by Du Yun, artist Christa Joo Hyun D'Angelo is creating a multichannel video installation that confronts how fertility, eugenics, and class shape the idea of the family based on ethnic belonging. →
Jonathan Reus

A Project by Jonathan Reus

Celestial Fruit on Earthly Ground

As a nominee in the category Future Traditions in Music, mentored by Du Yun, Jonathan Reus proposes a multidisciplinary project that points at the cultural networks that musical instruments embody. →
Born Throw Way!

A Project by Adéola Ọlágúnjú

Born Throw Way!

Artist Adéola Ọlágúnjú is a nominee in the category Still Images, Loud Voices, mentored by Tobias Zielony. Her project explores the subculture, counterculture, and minority variants of loosely organized gangs of young men known as Area Boys in Lagos, Nigeria, and the structures that sustain them. →

A Project by Paula Erstmann

Community Food Lab

Paula Erstmann is a nominee in the category Cooking for Change, mentored by award-winning chef Manu Buffara. She is part of the sociocultural initiative ZusammenKüche at Dragonerareal, Berlin, a yet undeveloped site for 500 social housing units. There, she proposes to establish a community kitchen that explores the needs of future tenants and neighbors and encourage them to think of food as an aesthetic means of communication and exchange. →
©Yelta Köm

A Project by Yelta Köm

Hide & Seek

Researcher, artist, and architect Yelta Köm is a nominee in the category Dissecting Technocapitalism, mentored by Evgeny Morozov. His project for Forecast, titled Hide & Seek, looks at mapping technologies, digital image production, and data collection processes to understand how surveillance systems and data-driven structures influence heritage and memory-building, as well as a city‘s appearance. →
Forecast Forum: Mentors and Nominees

Join Our Livestream from October 29–31

The Forecast Forum Goes Digital

The eighteen nominees in Forecast’s fifth edition will share their projects with the public for the first time during three days of live performances, music, films, and lecture performances livestreamed online from their locations around the world. →

Revisit: Flora Miranda

Designer Flora Miranda on the Spirit of Collaboration

The Austrian designer is a regular participant at Paris’s haute couture fashion week, but also at art and design exhibitions, as her tech-minded creations straddle the line between the conceptual and the wearable. →

News

The Fifth Edition of Forecast Welcomes a New Nominee →

Forecast’s Fifth Edition Kicks Off with New Format

The Nominees Have Been Selected

The six international mentors have selected 18 projects to accompany in Forecast’s fifth edition. In response to the COVID-19 crisis, Forecast has updated its format to decentralize its resources and enable an extended mentoring period for all 18 candidates. →

Forecast Responds to the Current Crisis

Candidates to Be Announced on April 30 →

The Work-Stay: Istanbul

Caty Enders's Sound Installation at SALT Galata

Science journalist Caty Enders traveled to Istanbul in March for what was meant to be a work-stay with her mentor, Joe Richman, at the contemporary art space SALT Galata. However, as the global spread of the coronavirus became a grave reality, Richman was unable to join, and Enders’s time in Istanbul was cut short. But before returning home to Boston, Enders was able to make the most of her stay and test the immersive sound installation she had planned to present at the fourth Forecast Festival. →

The Work-Stay: Rio de Janeiro and Sāo Paulo

Parasite 2.0 and Jerszy Seymour Meet Collectives in Brazil

In mid-February, just a couple of weeks before most international travel was stopped, two members of the three-person collective Parasite 2.0 flew from Italy to Brazil for a two-week work-stay in Rio de Janeiro and Sāo Paulo. Goethe-Institut hosted them in both cities, and they met with some of the local collectives working on the intersection of art and activism, focusing on participatory projects: Coletivo Em Silêncio, OPAVIVARÁ!, Esponja, AVAF, and Centro Cultural São Paulo. →

The Work-Stay: Miami

Sue Montoya and Paolo Cirio Workshop at the ICA Miami

Miami-based artist and researcher Sue Montoya examines how climate change affects Miami-Dade County. She was joined by her mentor, Paolo Cirio, for a weeklong work-stay and a workshop at the ICA Miami in February. →

The Work-Stay: Reykjavik

Olli Aarni and Okkyung Lee at the Nordic House

In early February 2020, Finnish musician Olli Aarni met up with his mentor, Okkyung Lee, for a work-stay at the Nordic House in Reykjavik, Iceland. In this new element of the Forecast program, the mentee and the mentor—who usually live and work in different parts of the world—come together for a period of creative exchanges and concrete mentoring. →

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