Biography

Moritz Ostanek is an independent Austrian performer, and director who has been active in various theatre and film productions since 2007. He is a co-founder of the Graz-based performance collective “Das Planetenparty Prinzip,” established in 2015, which continuously develops and produces theatre pieces, performances, and (participatory) game theatre. He is the author and director of several performances and short films, with a particular focus on transmedia work at the intersection of film and performance, as well as site-specific and digital theatre. He also works in the fields of dramaturgy and theatre education.

Victoria Fux is a director, performer and producer based in Graz and Vienna. She is co-founder of several collectives and curated the interdisciplinary performance art section at Forum Stadtpark Graz from 2019-2025. Since 2025, she has been studying Performative Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her work combines theater, dance and performance, exploring the human body in a socio-political context. Constantly seeking innovative theatrical forms that respond to the content, she enjoys collaborating with interdisciplinary artists and experts from various fields.

Artistic project

A mobile vending machine offers condensed “European culture” in timed units. The project reflects on speed-driven consumption, 24/7 logic, eurocentrism, and cultural exclusion through a participatory format. 

The project stages the tension between accelerated contemporary life and cultural forms that require time, attention, and collective experience. A mobile vending-machine shop travels through European contexts, offering distilled versions of what is labelled as “European culture” – artworks, stories, and rituals – each presented with a title and a fixed duration. Visitors select not the thing itself, but its symbolic and performative condensation: a cultural experience reduced to a measurable unit that fits the logic of efficiency and convenience.

After choosing, visitors enter an individual booth behind the machine, where the selected piece unfolds within a limited timeframe as a short performance, audiovisual composition, or solitary sound experience. The booth becomes a controlled micro-space in which time is fixed and collectivity is suspended.

By adopting the aesthetic of automated 24/7 shops, the project reflects on how culture circulates under conditions of visibility and speed. At the same time, it questions eurocentric notions of “European culture,” exposing their constructed and exclusionary nature through ongoing research and dialogue with diverse local perspectives.

Format: immersive one to one/few performance

Size of audience: 1 to 1-4, 8 per 10 minutes, 80/hour

Specific location: outdoor, somewhere with passers by, main square, market, transit hub, landmark, point of interest

Timing/duration: at least 1h, up to 5h. 5-10minutes per slot, 1-4 viewers per slot