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. →
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. →
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 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. →
Open Call 2021 Send Us Your Project Idea We're happy to announce the mentors in Forecast’s sixth edition and call for ideas. →
