Forecast Festival: Carlos Gutiérrez Music for the Head and the Body In Infinite Warp and Weft, Carlos Gutiérrez highlights the experience of sonic illusions that arrive after an intense, concentrated musical experience. →
Forecast Festival: Marcela Huerta Siting the Unsayable On Marcela and Yolanda Huerta’s collaborative poetic experience as a form of bodily reckoning. →
Forecast Festival: Victor Artiga Rodriguez Thoughts on Thoughts on Fluid Assemblages In Victor Artiga Rodriguez’s project, kidneys become the metaphorical site of the work and renal relations comprise the conceptual and the choreographic stuff of a piece rooted in interaction and improvisation. →
Forecast Festival: Gustavo Gomes Desire, Guilt, and the Ability to Connect Addressing hidden histories of exploitation and suffering, Gustavo Gomes’s work Manhandle promises to accomplish art’s great alchemy of turning private pain into shared healing and transcendence. →
Forecast Festival: Aidan Jason Peters Designing for a Nascent Cultural Identity Aidan Jayson Peters’s debut collection highlights the erosion of local craftsmanship as the hidden cost of a global fashion industry. →
Forecast Festival: Mari Kalabegashvili Drifting on the Border of Public and Private Mari Kalabegashvili’s project If You Catch My Drift views urban car racing as a gently rebellious means of marking territory, both literally and metaphorically. →
Spring School: Plants in Cityscapes A Joint Experiment in Informal Education During the eighth Forecast Festival, Forecast hosted its first-ever Spring School program, in cooperation with Living Summer School and LUMA Arles / Atelier LUMA, on the topic of plants in the urban environment. →
THE WORK-STAY: SANTIAGO AND VALDIVIA Marcela Huerta and Gabeba Baderoon in Chile Marcela Huerta’s project is a poetry-based portrait of the author’s mother, Yolanda Huerta, a refugee of the 1973 Chilean coup. Marcela and her mentor, Gabeba Baderoon, traveled to Chile for the last phase of their collaboration to confront the difficulty of the page, together. →
The Work-Stay: Beirut Mari Kalabegashvili Reflects on Cities as Collages During her work-stay in Beirut, the Tbilisi-based artist discovered unexpected similarities between the Lebanese and Georgian capitals as sites composed of many disparate—and sometimes conflicting—elements. →
The Work-Stay: Kyoto and Osaka Victor Artiga Rodriguez and Yuya Tsukahara Delve Into the Symbolism of Water in Japan Last month, Victor Artiga Rodriguez met with mentor Yuya Tsukahara in Japan for their work-stay in Kyoto and Osaka. →
The Work-Stay: Mexico City Aidan Jason Peters and Irakli Rusadze Explore Mexico City's Rich Art Scene As part of their work-stay, fashion designers Aidan Jason Peters (Klein Muis) and Irakli Rusadze visited Mexico City, where Peters seized the opportunity to explore how local ecologies connect with the main themes of his project: sustainability, local knowledges, and craftsmanship. →
The Work-Stay: Tokyo Carlos Gutiérrez and Greg Fox Connect Past and Future Technologies In early September 2023, Carlos Gutiérrez and Greg Fox met in Tokyo for a ten-day work-stay. During their time in Japan, they've encountered different approaches linking traditional practices and techniques with new technology, and explored the ways in which such connections also resonate with Gutiérrez's project. →
The Work-Stay: São Paulo Gustavo Gomes and Roee Rosen Explore Embodied Practices In September 2023, Gustavo Gomes and his mentor, Roee Rosen, met in São Paulo as part of their concentrated work-stay to further develop Gomes's project Blue Shoe. While there, Gomes also produced and filmed choreographic material with São Paulo-based dancers. →
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. →
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. →
