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Forecast是一项国际导师计划，通过该计划，艺术家与创作者有机会与在各自领域颇有成就的导师合作，实现自己的项目。Forecast这项计划跨越学科界限和流派，开辟空间以使青年创作者拓展思路。每一届的Forecast计划，都欢迎来自世界各地所有创意领域的艺术从业者和文化创作者，递交与六位导师之一合作创作的项目申请，您的申请可以是针对导师的既有专业经验，其独特的创作媒介，或者针对他的知识生产方法。
申请截止日期为北京时间2025年2月11日早06:59
（中欧时间2月10日23:59）。
Forecast: Me
ntorships 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.
For each edition, Forecast selects six mentors from various disciplines who offer selected participants their expertise in specifying and realizing their project ideas. Each edition of Forecast is different; the selected mentors impact the nature and content of every iteration. They define the type of applications submitted, and play an instrumental role in developing their mentees’ ideas from proposal to production. The mentoring process offers a space in which both parties can experiment, exchange, and push their concepts in new directions.
The call for ideas for Forecast’s tenth edition is now open!
Artistic practitioners and cultural producers working in all creative fields, anywhere in the world, are encouraged to apply to Forecast’s international mentorship program with projects that could benefit from the expertise of one of this edition’s mentors and their unique approach to material and knowledge production. The call is open to applicants of all ages and does not prescribe a theme. The only requirement is to submit projects that are relevant to the expertise of the mentor you wish to work with.
Send us your project ideas for the chance to work with one of the following mentors: fashion designer
Hussein Chalayan
(Cyprus/UK), vocalist and composer
Elaine Mitchener
(UK), performer and theater-maker
Lulu Obermayer
(Germany), artist and filmmaker
Ruth Patir
(Israel), video and installation artist
James Richards
(UK), and electronic musician and producer
Sote
(Iran/US).
The mentors in Forecast Mentorships’ 2025–26 edition use modes of defamiliarization in their work, expanding the tools and mediums they work with to generate new propositions. By conceptually and technically alienizing familiar creative possibilities, they each venture into uncharted realms in their own practice.
As Forecast marks its tenth anniversary edition, for the first time an alumna of the program will serve as a mentor: theater-maker and performer Lulu Obermayer, who participated in Forecast 5.
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To find out more about each mentor’s field of expertise and what they are looking for in a potential mentee, please click "Read More".
The call is open to applicants of all ages and does not prescribe a theme.
The only requirement is to submit projects that are relevant to the expertise of the mentor you wish to work with.
The deadline for applications is 11:59pm CET on Monday, February 10.
The selection process is two-tiered. First, the mentors carefully review all proposals and invite three nominees each to workshop with the mentor and present their ideas at the Forecast Forum in Berlin, taking place in July, 2025. All eighteen nominees receive an artist fee. Following the Forum, each mentor will select one mentee.
Those six mentees will have several months to produce their project with the mentor’s support. They will receive a production budget and a licensing and artist fee. In addition to ongoing exchanges with the respective mentor, this period also includes a one-on-one workstay for the mentor and mentee at a partner institution.
