The exhibition ForeCast was conceived of as a fringe show, sitting on the virtual side of an exhibition entitled Suspicious Mind at the Michaelis Gallery, Cape Town, in 2013. As such, its theme was generated within the framework of this context – an exploration of the concept proposed by the exhibition's title. The guiding thought, which initiated and significantly shaped this exploration around the concept 'mind' was borrowed from a Joseph Beuys' book: Thinking is form. This sentence marks the understanding of the mind as a 'suspicious territory' capable of shaping and giving form to the world beyond thought. The online exhibition 'ForeCast' opens with a video-loop of a tidal-washed ball: twelve men, pushing it down a riverside, it floats off, floats back, pushing back up the riverside. The exhibition investigates into the nature - culture relationship, by shuffling events and activities across different times, producing what could be called a 'landscape of concerns'. The viewer is invited to become involved in a collection of images and textual pieces in a collage-like distribution across an online 'desktop'. The site resembles a type of studio-space, in which the exhibition's elements are freely movable - to be set in relationships. A space for explorations and subjective decisions, observations and reflections. On the side, this virtual 'desktop' is complimented with this online 'bookshelf', a storage space for related information, which the viewer is free, but not required, to access at any time, contributing to his experience and exploration of the themes prepared in this 'exhibition space'... Cape Town, 2013 Visit the Exhibition: http://pia.suspiciousmind.co.za
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