The Future of Demonstration is an art series that explores the aesthetic, technological, pedagogical, and political potentials offered by the term demonstration. Artists, activists, architects, philosophers, scientists and contributors from other fields jointly explore new forms, intensities and consequences of collective practice and activate sensing and sense-making as modes of resolution. With this postdisciplinary approach we aim to reimagine, weave, share and demonstrate narratives, techniques and affiliations of resistance.
To this end, we work with a novel techno-ecological format that speculatively reshapes the conception and aesthetics of virtual reality. We intertwine virtual and physical space and replace VR avatar representation with point cloud live-streaming. Thus, the art project is like a membrane through which human and non-human beings can interact and perform with each other from wherever they are.
Performance | April 19 2024, 18:00 | |
Exhibition | April 20–28, 2024 | |
Venue | Forum Frohner Krems, Austria donaufestival |
Performance | May 27 2023, 19:00 | |
Exhibition | May 28–June 3, 2023 | |
Venue | Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman Innsbruck, Austria HEART OF NOISE 2023 |
The first two seasons of The Future of Demonstration, conceived by Eckermann and Nestler in collaboration with Maximilian Thoman, were realised as the media art festival of the City of Vienna in 2017 and 2018. Based on the leitmotifs VERMÖGEN and PASSION, its eight episodes engaged with today's massive transformations in the ecological, technopolitical, economic and cultural spheres.
PASSION | October 20–25, 2018 | |
Venue | Atelier Augarten Vienna, Austria |
VERMÖGEN | October 31–Nobvember 11, 2018 | |
Venue | REAKTOR Vienna, Austria |