For a period of two weeks the festival will introduce different hot-spots in Vienna. The decision to create a core zone with diverse hot-spots in the city rather than working with exhibition halls and conference centers is strongly related to this year’s sub-topic City as Interface. We wanted to design a dislocated and alternative festival structure presenting itself in public all over the city. Looking at one of the emerging areas of Vienna called the Donaukanal and its neighboring districts, it became clear that this area represents many aspects of our understanding of a City as Interface. A city where media facades, skyscrapers, bars, restaurants, clubs, public transportation, waterways, recreation areas and sometimes unpittoresque and unused areas clash. On different days of the festival a time-based dramaturgy instead of a simultaneous program has been developed for several hotspots. This idea stands for the basic curatorial concept of the festival. In the first week the different hotspots and intervention areas will be presented. The second week will feature workshops and talk-events to engross and reflect on the proceedings of the previous week and to contextualize the curatorial concept.

Sub-Curatorial Model
Within the so-called sub-curatorial model we invited national and international groups and organizations to work with us together on the topic and develop different modules for the focus days and hotspots. Especially for the exhibition and presentation formats this kind of distributed development introduced a different way of organizational flow within the festival production.