Forecast Work Stays

Three LINA Fellows —Francisco Braga, Valeria Prorizna and DELKUDEL represented by Diona Kusari— joined a Forecast work-stay at Radialsystem Berlin (January 23–25, 2026), offering an analogue light-painting workshop, a hauntological sonic walk and an urban ritual walk. Their participatory formats engaged Berlin audiences with questions of spatial heritage, collective memory, and the contested futures embedded in the city.

Together, they addressed three interconnected issues: who has the right to public space and whose ways of inhabiting a city count as legitimate heritage; personal histories, rituals and ways of knowing at risk of disappearing due to the prioritization of urban development; and what happens to visions of a better future under conditions of forced displacement.

Diona Kusari (DELKUDEL) facilitated a participatory urban walk titled "Rehearsing Invisible Heritage" in which participants engaged in embodied rituals and collective movement exercises to reframe their experience of Berlin's public space. Drawing on ritual logics and invisible heritage practices, the event explored how cities perform or materialize care, protection, and transition.

Francisco Braga led "serena," a light-painting workshop centered on the use of a walk-in pinhole camera, projecting an inverted image of the world outside onto the interior walls. Each participant produced their own light painting through a basic analogue development process, returning to the physical principles at the root of image-making.

Valeria Prorizna conducted "Certain Fragments from a Strumotone Inquiry," a guided sonic walk through West Berlin using archival recordings from a 1960s Kyiv electronic music workshop to prompt reflection on utopian urban visions and their contemporary residues. Moving through Berlin's West End, listeners found themselves in spaces that fulfilled that visionary promise — but also passed through environments no one in the postwar decades would have anticipated or wanted.