Forecast Festival 8

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Experience performances, installations, readings, and fashion shows 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) as well as photographer Mari Kalabegashvili (mentee); fashion designers Irakli Rusadze (mentor) and Aidan Jayson Peters (mentee); performance artists Yuya Tsukahara (mentor) and Victor Artiga Rodriguez (mentee).

Mari Kalabegashvili, photography installation, If You Catch my Drift: a lens-based examination of Tbilisi's urban environments as extreme playgrounds.

Carlos Gutiérrez, interactive durational musical experience, Infinite Warp and Weft: a digital matrix score conceived as an expandable and collapsible notational space. Audience members will be invited to add their own contribution to the rhythmic pattern, thereby building a communal, interwoven, musical experience.

Gustavo Gomes, film, Manhandle: a docufiction on sexual violence against men showing the complex thresholds between fantasy, perception, and dissociation.

Marcela Huerta, poetry performance, White Horses Always Run Home: an empathetic and collaborative poetic experience between a mother and daughter.

Aidan Jayson Peters, aka KleinMuis, fashion show, Deadstock: Life of a Garment: a film and fashion show exploring the environmental impact of the garment industry as well as the informal economies that pop up around it, and the ingenuity of those who have found new ways to process and reinvent discarded products, told through the voice of the community surrounding Dunusa, a sprawling open-air second-hand clothes market in Johannesburg.

Victor Artiga Rodriguez, performance art, Thoughts on Fluid Assemblages: an examination of how bodies, human and nonhuman, are subject to experience climate changes on a micropolitical scale.