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 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. →
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 →
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. →
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. →
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. →
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. →
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. →
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. →
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. →
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. →
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. →
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. →
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. →
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. →
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. →
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. →
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. →
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. →
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. →
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. →
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. →
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. →
Open Call 2020 Apply to Forecast's Mentorship Program We’re delighted to announce that the call for proposals for Forecast’s fifth edition is now open. →
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