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Forecast Journal Analogue Predictions
Made in Los Angeles since 2017.

Forecast is a collective of independent artists utilizing exclusively analogue formats to coax the present into the future.

✨ OPEN CALL ✨All Forecast contributors and friends are invited to participate in Claire Apana’s next Forecast physical/d...
05/07/2024

✨ OPEN CALL ✨
All Forecast contributors and friends are invited to participate in Claire Apana’s next Forecast physical/digital sculpture performance titled “Terrestrial Constellation”. To participate, please sign up via the google form link in our bio before May 20th. Claire will email materials and instructions to construct and live stream the burning of an origami constellation from the surface of Earth, on an international scale.

This ritual symbolizes the connection between our growing Forecast community, our Earth, and our cosmos. It will be performed biennially, reflecting our growth as a community with our expanding constellation. This collective illumination represents our perspective on Earth together, mapping our own space within the expansive universe.

Small beams of light, burning into our atmosphere. 
Creating new ritual.
Reminiscent of traditions.
A language of light.
Proof of existence.
In an infinite realm.
__june.apana

Archaeoastronomy is the study of how ancient cultures understood and utilized astronomical phenomena. It explores how an...
05/06/2024

Archaeoastronomy is the study of how ancient cultures understood and utilized astronomical phenomena. It explores how ancient peoples incorporated celestial events into their cultures, including religious beliefs, architecture, and societal organization.

The history of archaeoastronomy dates back to ancient civilizations like the Egyptians, Mayans, and Greeks, who built structures aligned with celestial events such as solstices and equinoxes. In the 19th century, scholars like Norman Lockyer and Sir J. Norman Lockyer began to systematically study ancient astronomical alignments. However, it wasn’t until the late 20th century that archaeoastronomy gained recognition as a legitimate field of study.

Notable archaeological structures include Stonehenge in England, which aligns with the summer solstice, and the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, which align with certain stars. In 2001, researchers discovered a 7,000-year-old astronomical observatory in Portugal, consisting of a series of stone structures aligned with the sunrise during the summer solstice.

In 2016, researchers found evidence of a 10,000-year-old megalithic site in Turkey, Göbekli Tepe, suggesting it may have served as an astronomical observatory. These discoveries highlight the importance of archaeoastronomy in understanding the ancient mindset and their relationship with the cosmos.

From the beginning, humans have looked to the sky in search of themselves, a place in the cosmos and relations with what...
05/06/2024

From the beginning, humans have looked to the sky in search of themselves, a place in the cosmos and relations with what came before and what will come after. To look up into the sky was (is) to read signals that guide movement, prompt activities, record history, inspire mythologies, fashion philosophies and much more.

Before we invented the power of flight, we did all this from the ground. Over millennia, humans have been building structures to communicate with the sky using whatever materials they had access to: mostly wood and rock and dirt. Most of these architectures of sky communication are now hidden, overgrown with vegetation and/or forgotten to the depths of time.

Then we went up in the air and for the first time were able to look down upon the structures broadcasting and receiving information from the cosmos. Truth/reality used to be what we could see with our eyes. All of a sudden, it became what we could capture and archive using devices we could operate. When we began looking down, something changed: We could see not just everything around us, but also ourselves.

The further up we went, the wider the perspective became. We saw whole cities, countries, continents. We kept going out and up until we saw our planet for the first time. The frame is now so wide that we can no longer find its edges. We require nonhuman operators, networked and communicating via wireless signals. We have lost the frame. Remote sensing introduces a new experience of being constantly observed from above for the first time.

Welcome Issue 12…..
currently in production.

cute! excited for issue TWELVE! 🔥
03/25/2024

cute! excited for issue TWELVE! 🔥

selfie game gettin’ strong. 😂🤘🏾shots from last night’s show with .rothenb
03/10/2024

selfie game gettin’ strong. 😂🤘🏾
shots from last night’s show with .rothenb

We have a very special guest in the gallery tomorrow! (RSVP link in bio, limited capacity) We welcome .rothenb to prefor...
03/08/2024

We have a very special guest in the gallery tomorrow! (RSVP link in bio, limited capacity) We welcome .rothenb to preform a set amongst art and tea! Free to attend. Why this rules?? David Rothenberg is visiting from NY. He is a distinguished professor, musician and philosopher who plays sounds of jazz. Records and collaborates with his favorite species such as cicadas, birds and whales showcasing that music can reach across species lines from human to animal and back. Join us in the acceptance of impermanence and celebrate these moments of magic. LOCATION: 1421 Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice , CA 90291 Next door to (upstairs) Thank you to .foundation for making all of this possible!! We look forward to seeing you there.

tomorrow 🌞
03/01/2024

tomorrow 🌞

bts from the build today of HEAVY AIR“you’re not floating, the sky is falling”__ shows how to wear the sky like a hat. ...
02/24/2024

bts from the build today of HEAVY AIR
“you’re not floating, the sky is falling”
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shows how to wear the sky like a hat. 📸

This Saturday! 14:00 PST 🙂🙃 (link in bio)
02/14/2024

This Saturday! 14:00 PST 🙂🙃 (link in bio)

took and .weaver to spend a little time with loreto yesterday ✈️🩵
02/09/2024

took and .weaver to spend a little time with loreto yesterday ✈️🩵

The first show by Forecast Foundation in collaboration with , Future Memory opens this Thursday at ! Come hang out in th...
01/29/2024

The first show by Forecast Foundation in collaboration with , Future Memory opens this Thursday at ! Come hang out in the desert with us. We’ve been working on this one for months and are excited to share the intersection of technology, memory and joy through art and performance with you.🌴
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live performances by and
aural pleasures by & mc’d by

Excited and honored to announce this incredible lineup of talented artists for our next show titled “Future Memory” whic...
01/10/2024

Excited and honored to announce this incredible lineup of talented artists for our next show titled “Future Memory” which we are co-curating with . Save the date!

🌧️ New podcast episode feat. now available (link in bio)! __Andreas Albrectsen chats with Sophie today about his world-...
12/29/2023

🌧️ New podcast episode feat. now available (link in bio)!
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Andreas Albrectsen chats with Sophie today about his world-renowned work and his myriad of artistic inspirations, ranging from French philosophers to weather patterns across Europe.
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📷: Malle Madsen
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Andreas Albrectsen
Untitled (01.01.23, 15 UTC), 2023
Graphite pencil on paper
113 x 216 cm

Untitled (01.01.23, 15 UTC) is a large-scale drawing of a weather chart showing the wind directions above the European continent on the first day of 2023.

The diagram is based on data from satellite monitoring and then mapped by hand, using graphite pencil on paper.

The numerous arrows that form a dense pattern of movement follow the atmospheric logic of the wind, but can also be read as tumultuous connections between nations.

By juxtaposing the representation of the occurring aerial events and the outlining of a specified time and place on Earth, the work draws parallels between historicity and weather, between meteorological forecasts and geopolitical predictions, between the motion of social, ideological and atmospheric currents.

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