Call for applications: Forecast International Mentorship in Berlin
Artists and cultural producers around the world are invited to apply for the eighth edition of the Forecast International Mentorship programme in Berlin, Germany.
For the current edition, applicants should submit projects that could benefit from the expertise of one of this edition’s mentors and their unique approach to material and knowledge production. Successful applicants will receive a grant and production budget in addition to the mentorship.
Requirements
The call is designed for all creative fields and as such there are no restrictions or requirements regarding disciplines or genres. However, Forecast strongly advises applicants to reflect on the mentor’s approach to creative production as well as the public nature of the Forecast Forum and Festival, which requires applicants to convey their projects to an audience.
In the online application form, applicants will be requested to enter the following:
- Basic information: Name, year of birth (used solely for internal administrative purposes), current address, country of residence, citizenship(s), pronouns, and email.
- Mentor: Name the mentor they are applying to work with.
- The applicant’s core concept (up to 1 400 characters max).
- A proposal: A single PDF (16MB max).
- A portfolio: A single PDF (up to eight pages).
- Curriculum vitae as a PDF.
- The applicant’s life and career: The applicants should provide information about three moments in their lives, experiences, projects, or jobs that have been of special importance to them (600 characters max).
- Compliance with the terms and conditions.
In general, the proposal requires that applicants:
- Clearly define their project idea and express what they want to achieve.
- Sketch the content and format of their participation at the Forecast Forum and Festival. What is the relation between the format (performance, presentation, talk, workshop, screening, installation, etc) and what they are seeking to convey?
- Identify the key materials that they need, as well as production steps.
- Describe how the project could gain from working in tandem with the mentor they have chosen to apply with, and their expectations of the mentoring process.
Read the full guidelines and the terms and conditions here and here, respectively. Interested applicants should apply here before 26 February.
Applicants will be mentored by multi-instrumentalist, interdisciplinary artist and drummer Greg Fox, who has hundreds of credits on numerous records. Fox is a versatile and prolific creative who moves through musical stages as both listener and player. As a mentor, Fox is looking for candidates who are interested in using rhythm to explore time and space, whether in music or art practice.
Fox said: “This invitation is not only being offered to musicians and drummers, I’m open to all types of creative practices, whatever you might be doing.”
In addition to Fox, mentors in this edition include poet Gabeba Baderoon (South Africa), visual artist Roee Rosen (Israel), fashion designer Irakli Rusadze (Georgia), photographer Mila Teshaieva (Ukraine) and performance artist Yuya Tsukahara (Japan).
“As the artistic director of Forecast, I am happy to announce that our annual call for proposals is now open,” Forecast artistic director Freo Majer said. “Forecast is an interdisciplinary mentorship programme based in Berlin. We offer creative thinkers from various disciplines the chance to work with accomplished mentors toward bringing their projects to fruition.”
View the original call here.
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