Forum 9, August 2–4, 2024 Discover Trailblazing Thinkers at the Forecast Forum Join the weekend-long Forecast Forum in Berlin for a spotlight on thought-provoking experiences conceived by creative thinkers from all over the world. →
FORECAST 9: FORUM PARTICIPANTS AND DATES ANNOUNCED Discover the Nominated Projects The six international mentors of Forecast 9 have each selected three projects for the Forecast Forum in August, where all eighteen nominated ideas will be unveiled. →
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. →
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 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 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 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 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. →
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. →
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. →
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