Forecast Festival 2022
Mentorships for Audacious Minds – Edition 6
Installation Exhibition Dance
An invitation to myriad artistic interventions and dialogues has been issued by the mentoring programme “Forecast”, which promotes the transdisciplinary exchange of forward-looking artistic ideas on an international scale. The festival, the pinnacle of the programme’s sixth edition, takes place from 8 to 9 April at Radialsystem. The festival introduces six new projects created by artists, performers, designers, choreographers and creative thinkers in collaboration with their internationally renowned mentors over the past ten months. Dance performances, installations, interactive artworks and sensory experiences are presented throughout the building, as are discussions and workshops.
Mentees & Mentors
Evil Eye: Özge Samancı (Mentee) & Ulli Lust (Mentor)
Installation in the Keller // Reading in the Halle: Friday, 7 pm
Turkish-American media artist and graphic novelist Özge Samancı is working on a graphic novel centered on a murder mystery. The plot is set in Istanbul ahead of the 1995–96 elections, as a conservative party rises to power using religion to cynically appeal to voters.
Sensory Souvenir: Iman Jesmi (Mentee) & Emeka Ogboh (Mentor)
Studio C
Iranian composer and sound artist Iman Jesmi delves into the correlation between sounds and smells in European cities, and how they have shifted through immigration. With Hamburg as a case study, he looks at new forms of cultural synthesis through smells and sounds in the cityscape.
Hurlula: Flora Détraz (Mentee) & Sofia Jernberg (Mentor)
Performance in Studio A: Friday and Saturday 7.30–9 pm
French dancer and choreographer Flora Détraz is creating a live performance for percussion and voice centered on the act of screaming.
Ramanenjana: Simona Deaconescu (Mentee) & Mathilde Monnier (Mentor)
Performance in the Halle: Saturday, 9 pm
Romanian choreographer Simona Deaconescu is collaborating with Malagasy choreographer Gaby Saranouffi on the dance performance Ramanenjana, which looks at the 1863 “dancing plague“ in Madagascar.
Architectures of Inclusion and Exclusion: Luísa Sol (Mentee) & Tatiana Bilbao (Mentor)
Saal
Portuguese architect Luísa Sol is working on a multimedia installation that reflects on screen-based images of the home and the domestic sphere, and the storytelling contained within them.
Dashboards for Posthuman Life: Jaya Klara Brekke (Mentee) & Francesca Bria (Mentor)
Studio B
Theorist and designer Jaya Klara Brekke is creating fictional data feeds that help users to better understand the impact of their actions on the environment and their own privacy.
Biographien
Als internationales Mentorship-Programm und interdisziplinäres Netzwerk für Wissenstransfer unter der künstlerischen Leitung von Freo Majer bietet Forecast Künstler*innen und kreativen Denker*innen aus aller Welt die Möglichkeit, an der Seite namhafter Mentor*innen ihre eigenen Projekte zu verwirklichen. Forecast gewährt über Disziplinen und Genres hinweg Einblicke in kreative Produktionsprozesse und gibt Fragestellungen Raum und Zeit, die für eine kommende Generation prägender Köpfe wichtig sind.
Programme
The mentees of the Forecast Festival will present their work throughout the building. Accompanying this, talks, performances and workshops will take place on both days:
FRIDAY, April 8
6 pm | Halle | Ulli Lust reads from her forthcoming graphic novel
7 pm | Halle | Reading by Özge Samancı and conversation with Ulli Lust
7:30pm | Studio A | Flora Détraz Hurlula
8 pm | Halle | Emeka Ogboh and Iman Jesmi in conversation
8:30pm | Saal | Emeka Ogboh: Ámà Act Two—The Gathering Place
9:30 pm | Halle | Sofia Jernberg and Flora Détraz in conversation
10 pm | Halle | Sofia Jernberg performs an original composition
Workshop:
6:30 pm | Deck | Simona Deaconescu: Bodies in Hyper-Action
SATURDAY, April 9
6 pm | Halle | Talk: Francesca Bria, Evgeny Morozov, and Christopher Roth
7 pm | Halle | Francesca Bria and Jaya Klara Brekke in conversation
7:30 pm | Studio A | Flora Détraz Hurlula
7:30 pm | Halle | Tatiana Bilbao guides a participatory quilt-making event
8 pm | Halle | Tatiana Bilbao and Luísa Sol in conversation
9 pm | Halle | Simona Deaconescu: Ramanenjana
10 pm | Halle | Mathilde Monnier, solo performance
10:15 pm | Halle | Mathilde Monnier and Simona Deaconescu in conversation
Workshops:
6:30 pm | Kubus | Özge Samancı: Bonding through Drawing
8:30 pm | Kubus | Iman Jesmi: Euro Soundscapes
The mentee projects are accessible throughout the festival, unless indicated otherwise.
The full programme can be found at: www.forecast-platform.com
Language
English
Credits
Forecast is a project by Skills e. V. in cooperation with Radialsystem.
Forecast is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, and is a member of the Future Architecture Platform.
Media partners: taz. die tageszeitung, tip Berlin, ExBerliner and Ask Helmut.
An invitation to myriad artistic interventions and dialogues has been issued by the mentoring programme “Forecast”, which promotes the transdisciplinary exchange of forward-looking artistic ideas on an international scale. The festival, the pinnacle of the programme’s sixth edition, takes place from 8 to 9 April at Radialsystem. The festival introduces six new projects created by artists, performers, designers, choreographers and creative thinkers in collaboration with their internationally renowned mentors over the past ten months. Dance performances, installations, interactive artworks and sensory experiences are presented throughout the building, as are discussions and workshops.
Mentees & Mentors
Evil Eye: Özge Samancı (Mentee) & Ulli Lust (Mentor)
Installation in the Keller // Reading in the Halle: Friday, 7 pm
Turkish-American media artist and graphic novelist Özge Samancı is working on a graphic novel centered on a murder mystery. The plot is set in Istanbul ahead of the 1995–96 elections, as a conservative party rises to power using religion to cynically appeal to voters.
Sensory Souvenir: Iman Jesmi (Mentee) & Emeka Ogboh (Mentor)
Studio C
Iranian composer and sound artist Iman Jesmi delves into the correlation between sounds and smells in European cities, and how they have shifted through immigration. With Hamburg as a case study, he looks at new forms of cultural synthesis through smells and sounds in the cityscape.
Hurlula: Flora Détraz (Mentee) & Sofia Jernberg (Mentor)
Performance in Studio A: Friday and Saturday 7.30–9 pm
French dancer and choreographer Flora Détraz is creating a live performance for percussion and voice centered on the act of screaming.
Ramanenjana: Simona Deaconescu (Mentee) & Mathilde Monnier (Mentor)
Performance in the Halle: Saturday, 9 pm
Romanian choreographer Simona Deaconescu is collaborating with Malagasy choreographer Gaby Saranouffi on the dance performance Ramanenjana, which looks at the 1863 “dancing plague“ in Madagascar.
Architectures of Inclusion and Exclusion: Luísa Sol (Mentee) & Tatiana Bilbao (Mentor)
Saal
Portuguese architect Luísa Sol is working on a multimedia installation that reflects on screen-based images of the home and the domestic sphere, and the storytelling contained within them.
Dashboards for Posthuman Life: Jaya Klara Brekke (Mentee) & Francesca Bria (Mentor)
Studio B
Theorist and designer Jaya Klara Brekke is creating fictional data feeds that help users to better understand the impact of their actions on the environment and their own privacy.
Biographies
Als internationales Mentorship-Programm und interdisziplinäres Netzwerk für Wissenstransfer unter der künstlerischen Leitung von Freo Majer bietet Forecast Künstler*innen und kreativen Denker*innen aus aller Welt die Möglichkeit, an der Seite namhafter Mentor*innen ihre eigenen Projekte zu verwirklichen. Forecast gewährt über Disziplinen und Genres hinweg Einblicke in kreative Produktionsprozesse und gibt Fragestellungen Raum und Zeit, die für eine kommende Generation prägender Köpfe wichtig sind.
