Forecast Grantee Artist Talk 2/11/25

This grantee artist talk, hosted by Forecast Public Art, will feature the following speakers:

• Tahiel Jimenez Medina, Forecast 2024 Mid-Career Project Grantee.
• Liping Vong, Forecast 2024 Early-Career Research & Development Grantee.
• M. Jamison, Forecast 2024 Early-Career Research & Development Grantee
• Yonci Jameson, Forecast 2024 Early-Career Research & Development Grantee.

• This panel will be moderated by Jen Krava, Forecast Director of Learning, Grants, and Research.

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This event is hosted by Forecast Public Art.

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PANELISTS

Tahiel Jimenez Medina (he, they) is an award winning Queer Colombian first-generation immigrant writer director. In resistance to cultural erasure and imperial homogenization, Medina’s poetic films preserve and recognize tender personal memories, fragmented identities due to trauma and migration, and the haunting revelations of our dreams, grounded in dedication to his beloved mama and migrant mothers who flee generational violence. Medina’s visions reached national and international audiences through film festivals including Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, Reykjavik International Film Festival, and Provincetown International Film Festival. He screens films on public local parking lots for his intimate community to gather and dream together. Recognitions include The Apichatpong Weerasethakul Playlab, The UFO Film Lab, The Jerome Fellowship, The Jerome Media Production Grant, and The McKnight Fellowship among others. tahielfilms.com

M. Jamison (pictured left) is an interdisciplinary audio artist and musician based out of Minneapolis, MN. Her practice centers the narratives of Black Trans/Queer artists through record production, sound composition, scoring and live performance support. Her Collaborators include but are not limited to, Rashaad Newsome, Ms Boogie, Ahya Simone, Trannilish, Blu Bone, Kamilla Love, Denaisha and Cameron Downey. Her collaborative compositions have been shown at institutions such as Walker Art Center, Park Avenue Armory, Artcenter College of Design, and Kunstraum Kreuzberg. She has worked on projects commissioned by LACMA, Snapchat, Somerset House, and Artcenter College of Design. Her live production works have been performed on a global scale in club settings like Nowadays (NYC), to festival settings such as Dweller(NYC), Festival Fierté(Montreal) and Milkshake Festival(Amsterdam), to name a few. M’s work spans from traditional record production to performance art compositions and film scoring. Within all of her work lies a common theme – Black Trans/Queer liberation via personal autonomy and communal joy.

Yonci Jameson (pictured right) (they/she) is a West African drummer, Bass Clarinetist, DJ, and writer born/raised/based in Minneapolis. By way of sound selection & performance, and the pen/page, Yonci seeks to move bodies, and stimulate minds in homage to Black Queer traditions, and in service of a liberatory praxis.

Liping Vong is a multi-disciplinary artist working at the intersection of puppetry, theater, film, and visual arts. She is an alumnus of Monkeybear’s Harmolodic Workshop 2019 cohort and a 2022 Puppet Lab Fellow through Open Eye Figure Theater. Her recent project, In Absentia, explored her experience in witnessing the aging of a loved one, and how it affects our perception of independence and autonomy.

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