In Season 1, the episodes engage with diverse aspects of VERMÖGEN, a German term that offers a complex, ambivalent but potent set of meanings. More information on the leitmotif VERMÖGEN.

Each episode is at the same time performative space, installative setting, artistic environment, film set and discursive gathering. While each episode is featured on a given day, its material artistic setting is present for the entire art series and thus constitutes a variable, changing, communicative and lively exhibition format. At the end, with all episodes performed, the venue turns into an exhibition space.

The episodes consists of:

• Artistic format (evening events, 20h):
  choreographed events in which installation, architecture, audiovisual works, performance, text and conversation flow into one another.
  
• Film format in which live-streaming/broadcasting is approached an art form.
  
• Discursive format workshops, panels, screenings and other discursive/artistic formats enlarge upon the episode themes. (for program details please see the episodes discriptions)

EPISODE DEVELOPMENT

The episodes evolve from a series of interventions, conversations and discourses on art, technology, media, philosophy, economy, social and natural sciences that start a year before the event. In addition to these internal conversations, we support the communication between the collectives to generate and develop synergies between the episodes.

LIVE-STREAMING AND FILM PRODUCTION

A live-stream/broadcast accompanies each episode’s artistic evening event. These films are separate works that focus on streaming as an art form. They are developed and produced by a film/video artist in collaboration with the episode team, film professionals and the Vienna-based non-profit community TV station OKTO. After each episode’s evening event, its film is screened in the exhibition setting. For the time after season 1, OKTO TV provides a video channel to showcase the films – The Future of Demonstration will finally stay online as a web series of two seasons with five episodes each.