#SaveTheDate – The Forecast Mentorship program is set to reach its crescendo with an immersive two-day event at Radialsystem on March 15–16, signifying the close of its 2023-24 cycle. This year’s Forecast Festival invites onlookers to a first view of works crafted by a diverse roster of artists, performers, writers, and forward-thinking creatives in Berlin’s Radialsystem.
Their creations are the fruits of extensive collaborative efforts with esteemed mentors who will also take the stage to unveil their influential pieces, delving into the narratives that fuel their artistic endeavours.
Boundary-pushing projects by artists, performers, musicians, and poets get their world premiere at the Forecast Festival following a months-long collaboration with renowned mentors.
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Be the first to witness a spectrum of dynamic performances, screenings, eye-catching installations, and literary readings by:
Poets Gabeba Baderoon (mentor) and Marcela Huerta (mentee)
Musicians Greg Fox (mentor) and Carlos Gutiérrez (mentee)
Visual Artist Roee Rosen (mentor) and Performer Gustavo Gomes (mentee), accompanied by Photographer Mari Kalabegashvili (mentee)
Fashion Pioneers Irakli Rusadze (mentor) and Aidan Jayson Peters (mentee)
Performance Virtuosos Yuya Tsukahara (mentor) and Victor Artiga Rodriguez (mentee)
Moreover, Forecast is broadening its horizons with an engaging series of workshops and pioneering experiences as a segment of the Spring School: Plants in Cityscapes. Forecast alumni Ulli Lust and Markus Hoffmann, alongside the LINA Architecture Platform Fellows, invite enthusiasts to partake in a trilogy of workshops, focusing on the integration of plant life within the concrete mazes of our metropolises, scheduled for March 11—16.
Rhythmic Excavation
Mentor Greg Fox (USA)
Mentee Carlos Gutiérrez (Bolivia)
Composer Carlos Gutiérrez will premiere the installation Infinite Warp and Weft, an audience-activated temporal network of several interdependent rhythmic levels. Mentor Greg Fox, a multi-instrumentalist, will join Gutiérrez on stage for a live set.
Sartorial Identities
Mentor Irakli Rusadze (Georgia)
Mentee Aidan Jayson Peters (South Africa)
Aidan Jayson Peters will unveil his debut collection of upcycled fashion, which highlights the ingenuity of working with the discarded products sent from Europe to Africa. Mentor Irakli Rusadze is the creative director and co-founder of the Tbilisi-based label SITUATIONIST, a regular on the Paris Fashion Week schedule. Rusadze will showcase key pieces from his most recent collection.
Troubled Humor and Tainted Beauty
Mentor Roee Rosen (Israel)
Mentees Gustavo Gomes (Brazil/Germany), and Mari Kalabegashvili (Georgia)
With Manhandle, Gustavo Gomes presents a documentary about sexual violence against men that reveals the complex thresholds between fantasy, guilt, shame, and dissociation.
Through the lens of her camera, Mari Kalabegashvili observes the urban environment of Tbilisi as an extreme playground in If You Catch My Drift.
Their mentor Roee Rosen is an artist, filmmaker, and writer known for his multi-layered, provocative works that break the boundaries between documentary and fiction. He will present his work The Dust Channel, which was co-produced by Documenta 14.
Post-Punk-Performance
Mentor Yuya Tsukahara (Japan)
Mentee Victor Artiga Rodriguez (El Salvador)
In his performative project Thoughts on Fluid Assemblages, Victor Artiga Rodriguez examines, together with his collaborators, how human and non-human bodies are impacted by climate change and water pollution
on a micropolitical level. Japanese performer, theatre director, and choreographer Yuya Tsukahara will perform a unique piece which interprets the structure of Forecast 8.
Voluptuous Silence and Sociality in Poetry
Mentor Gabeba Baderoon (South Africa) Mentee Marcela Huerta (Canada)
Writer Marcela Huerta creates an empathetic and collaborative poetic portrait of her mother, Yolanda Huerta, a refugee of the 1973 Chilean coup. Over several months, they participated in somatic practices to find new ways of narrating the histories that have shaped their relationship. Meanwhile, award-winning poet and feminist scholar Gabeba Baderoon, who mentored Huerta, will read selected works.
Forecast – Mentorships for Audacious Minds
Forecast offers artists and creative thinkers from anywhere in the world the chance to work with accomplished mentors toward bringing their projects to fruition. As an international mentorship program with annual editions, Forecast transcends neatly defined disciplines and genres to provide insight into creative production processes, and carve out space for the questions on the minds of the next generation of trailblazers. In addition to one-on-one mentorships, Forecast also encompasses 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).
