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📣 What Is Forecast? Forecast is a platform dedicated to facilitating, mentoring, and promoting trailblazing creative practices and audacious artistic practitioners. Forecast encompasses one-on-one mentorships; the workshop series Forecast Condensed; and is the initiator of collaborative projects with multiple institutional partners, such as Driving the Human (2020–2023) and Housing the Human (2018–2019). Get to know more about what we do at the link in bio! Video: @stephan_talneau #forecastplatform #forecastmentorships #forecastcondensed #drivingthehuman #housingthehuman

We’re thrilled to announce the projects nominated for the 11th edition of Forecast Mentorships! From hundreds of applications across 110 countries, the mentors of Forecast’s 2026–27 edition have each selected three projects to be presented in July at the 2026 Forecast Festival. The mentors and their nominees in each category are: Playing with Risk
 Mentor: writer and comedian Vidura Bandara Rajapaksa Nominees: Siming Lu (China), Brandon Aguirre (Costa Rica), Xabiso Vili (South Africa) Authentic Deception
 Mentor: performance maker Tom Cassani Nominees: Hsiang-Sheng Teng (Taiwan),
Chris Yarnell (UK),
Emilie Largier (France) Constructing Delusions
 Mentor: artist and filmmaker Keren Cytter Nominees: Helen Anna Flanagan (Ireland),
Nadir Sönmez (Turkey),
Mahesh Subramaniam (India) Introspective Futurism
 Mentor: sci-fi artist and body architect Lucy McRae Nominees: Jiaqing Mo (China),
Amy Chiao (US),
Lena Becerra (Italy/Argentina) Unruly Images
 Mentor: multimedia artist Almagul Menlibayeva Nominees: Ana Mikadze (Georgia),
Camila Flores-Fernández, (Peru)
Poyuan Juan (Taiwan) The Distant Mirror
 Mentor: composer and sound artist Heinali Pablo V Cazares (US), Anna Ivchenko (Ukraine),
Mariana Carrilho (Mozambique) Explore the participating projects in each mentorship field at the link in bio. 💥 Forecast Festival—Where Ideas Find Their Future
 🗓 July 16–19, 2026
 📍Radialsystem Berlin The 2026 Forecast Festival returns for four days of bold creativity, unexpected encounters, and fresh perspectives. Taking place over four days for the first time, the festival presents an interdisciplinary program of performances, music, screenings, visual art, design, and stand-up comedy. At its core are the showcases by the six distinguished mentors and their selected mentorship candidates. The candidates will share in-progress projects and ideas in motion across different mentorship fields. In addition, the Festival features workshops and exploratory walks led by fellows of the LINA network, alongside guest appearances by alumni of the Forecast Mentorships program, reflecting on ten years of fostering emerging creative practices. #forecastfestival

We wrapped up the 10th edition of Forecast Mentorships with the premiere of the six final projects presented across different venues in Berlin. Each project is paired with an essay by an invited expert reflecting on the proposal. "Shadows, Real and Imagined" is an essay by design critic and curator Vera Sacchetti on Bethan Hughes' work, Shadowing. "New Year’s Eve in Berlin can be chaotic. As midnight approaches, fireworks, sparklers, and small-scale pyrotechnics are lit up everywhere, filling the air with smoke and noise for hours. One of the most arresting sequences in Bethan Hughes’s Shadowing installation mediates that experience from the perspective of a domestic interior: the walls reflect the cacophony outside, the colors merging in a dreamlike lag that invites the viewer to consider their perception. Is this real? Hughes has experienced this scene herself. The interior we see is her own living room inside an unnamed housing complex in Berlin, a so-called plattenbau: a large-scale estate, designed and built with prefabricated concrete slabs between the end of the 1970s and the early 1980s. Built upon an extensive meadow, the estate stands in contrast to other high-density high-rise buildings of the same period, spreading housing blocks in neatly organized rows and separating pedestrian and vehicular traffic via elevated bridges. For Hughes, it’s home. She remembers experiencing the cacophony of the fireworks while pregnant in that same living room and later being compelled to record it without knowing what it would lead to. Some time later, a fire broke out under a bridge connecting the two halves of the estate, damaging a building and sparking a media outcry about the failures of integration. Since its construction, the housing estate has changed owners multiple times and fallen into disrepair. At times, Hughes would encounter TV and film crews filming outside, images she would later see in the opening credits of crime shows. Those producing these images used the estate as a backdrop to play out social anxieties, fears, and fantasies—all from a comfortable distance." Read the full text at the link in bio.

We wrapped up the 10th edition of Forecast Mentorships with the premiere of the six final projects presented across different venues in Berlin. Each project is paired with an essay by an invited expert reflecting on the proposal. "Performing Identity as Fact and Fiction" is an essay by writer, curator, and Forecast alumna Jesi Khadivion on Kihako Narisawa's work, Layer(s). "At first, Kihako Narisawa seems to blend into the crowd. Only three megaphones mounted on a tripod and a projection screen hint at a performance scenario. Removed from the live setting, experiencing Narisawa’s movements through my computer screen, I watch her slowly weave through the foyer of the Gropius Bau, smoothing her hair and checking the sound equipment amid the din of passersby—gestures and sounds that anyone familiar with live performance or presentation would associate with those charged, introspective moments spent waiting to engage an audience. I initially thought the camera had started too early. And so, I waited for a clear beginning that never came. The flow of people heading down the staircase thinned to a trickle and the echoes of conversation began to dissipate, yet Narisawa continued: smoothing her hair, sitting down on the marble staircase to tie her shoes, tucking in her shirt, checking the waistband of her pants, tying her hair into a high ponytail. Her grand entrance never came. Instead, we see a gradual, almost imperceptible accumulation of gestures: stretching, leg lifts, circling the heels, wrists, and ankles—motions that hover between the performance and the warm-up, the rehearsal and the act itself. At intervals, the live scene is expanded by a projected image of Narisawa seated on a stark stage, her back turned to the viewer, facing a microphone. The body appears twice—once embedded in the flow of the foyer, once removed, flattened, and withheld—introducing a split between presence and representation. Kihako Narisawa’s performance layer(s), developed for the 10th edition of Forecast in conversation with mentor Hussein Chalayan, delves into the performance of identity through precisely this kind of suspension." Read the full text at the link in bio.

We wrapped up the 10th edition of Forecast Mentorships with the premiere of the six final projects presented across different venues in Berlin. Each project is paired with an essay by an invited expert reflecting on the proposal. "The Oracle Does Not Answer" is an essay by Berlin-based curator Michael Dieminger on Diane Cescutti's work, Gods of Calculation. "Every day, millions of people turn to machines to ask what might come next. Climate models anticipate floods before rivers rise. Financial algorithms sense fluctuations before traders do. During pandemics, epidemiological systems sketch the contours of waves before hospitals fill. Dating apps model the likelihood of love between people who have never met. Across the planet, futures are rendered calculable. Screens glow in darkened rooms. Infrastructures translate questions into forecasts. What appears are probabilities, graphs, projections, forms that promise orientation while withholding their conditions of possibility. The machine speaks but does not explain. In this opacity, consultation emerges. These systems’ outputs organize uncertainty, inviting acts of deciphering. Prediction becomes a site where meaning is not given, but produced: unevenly distributed, shaped by those who define the model, the dataset, and the parameters of legibility." Read the full text at the link in bio.

We wrapped up the 10th edition of Forecast Mentorships with the premiere of the six final projects presented across different venues in Berlin. Each project is paired with an essay by an invited expert reflecting on the proposal. "Composing the Process of Decomposition" is an essay by independent curator of visual arts and music Paola Malavassi on María Gabriela's work, Larva. "The performance begins in the nose. Before anything is said or done in Larva, viewers notice the humid scent of earth as they enter the performance space at Radialsystem. Thick and unmistakable, it replaces the neutrality of the stage with the presence of soil. And so, Colombian artist María Gabriela Rubio Hernández’s performance begins not visually but somatically, experienced by the audience from within as they take in the muddy dampness, organic and alive. The scent, both familiar and unsettling, immediately effects a shift in perception. The space is dimly lit. Piles of earth are scattered across the floor. Viewers eventually sit on soft pads placed on the ground, bringing their bodies physically closer to the soil that delineates the space. Photographs of insects are placed around the stage, strands of hair appear among the materials, and large black plastic bags recall body bags. Meanwhile, sounds in the room evoke the movements of unseen creatures: insects burrowing into the earth or buzzing about in the air; perhaps, birds singing; the sound of water, thick and dense like mud. At one point, the artist tells the audience that the first fly typically arrives only nine minutes after a dead body begins to decompose, a sordid reminder of how quickly nature sets to work." Read the full text at the link in bio.

SAVE THE DATE ✨ Forecast Festival July 16–19, 2026 Radialsystem, Berlin Four days of art, performance, and creative exchanges. More details coming soon. #forecast11

Special offer for our community! We’re excited to offer our audience an exclusive 30% discount for the upcoming Paradise Gothic Tour in Germany by this edition’s mentor, Vidura Bandara Rajapaksa. Follow the link in bio and use the code: MENTORING2026 Important: Enter the code on the first page of the ticketing site where it says “Special Offer – Vidura.” Please note: the code will NOT work in the Coupons section at checkout, so make sure to apply it on that first page for the discount to activate. See you there!

We wrapped up the 10th edition of Forecast Mentorships with the premiere of the six final projects presented across different venues in Berlin. Each project is paired with an essay by an invited expert reflecting on the proposal. "Seismic Resonances" is an essay by curator and theorist Renan Laru-an on Corin's work, Resonance. "My friend used to work for the state’s volcanology agency. She took the job in order to travel across the Philippines. Her task was to install alarm systems in secluded rural and mountainous areas, preparing communities for earthquakes and the trembling ground. In her next posting, she welcomed seismic events like the first rain of May on another island. Outside the realm of geology, she encountered the tremor in children’s bodies, in women’s incessant prayers, in evacuation centers, and in her dreams of anthropomorphizing animals. Once I called her and asked, “What if the earthquake was following you?” I anticipated the settlement of vibrations from CORIN’s new composition Resonance within my somatic vocabulary. I was informed about the piece’s incorporation of kulintang, a percussive instrument I grew up with in the Philippines’ southern Mindanao region. This event, along with other new-media offerings in the second half of Berlin’s winter, stirred us concert goers to venture outside ourselves, assembled into a temporary tension of communion. I immediately saw the ensemble of gongs when I entered the venue. Unassuming, fixed onto a makeshift table loaded with cables, electronics, and digital music equipment, these nippled bronze structures drew people to intuitively form a circle around them as the performance neared its premiere at CTM. As soon as CORIN began to caress the instrument, her fingers running through the contours of the kulintang, the gongs’ metallic song silenced the crowd." Read the full text at the link in bio. Photos by @camille_blake

We wrapped up the 10th edition of Forecast Mentorships with the premiere of the six final projects presented across different venues in Berlin. Each project is paired with an essay by an invited expert reflecting on the proposal. "Dancing With Ghosts" is an essay by researcher and author Teresa Fazan on Wojciech Rybicki solo work SISTERS. "In his solo work SISTERS, premiering at Sophiensaele in Berlin in February 2026, the emerging Polish choreographer Wojciech Rybicki draws on archival material to explore the micro-history of Poland’s transition from communism to democracy in 1989, while also processing the loss of his beloved grandfather. Structured around these two unrelated events, this intimate, séance-like performance confronts the vulnerability of memory and the realization that some events—and some people—are irretrievably lost to the past." Read the full text at the link in bio. Photos by Pauline Ruther Choreography, performance: Wojciech Rybicki Mentorship, dramaturgy support: Lulu Obermayer Music: Ernest Borowski Vocal-acting creation: Aga Ujma Costume, scenography: Paweł Włodarski Light design: Victor Piano This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union. Co- financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.

Are you interested in working with us? Forecast currently has one open position for an internship: - Praktikum Kulturmanagement & Veranstaltungsorganisation Full specification through the link in our bio, deadline to apply is March 25.

We are looking for a Knowledge Facilitation Curator (Freelance Position) to support the collaboration between Forecast/Skills e. V. and TU Braunschweig (Science and Art Lab / Projekthaus). Find all the details at the link in our bio.