DARUM (Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche)

[EOL]. End of Life

A virtual ruinscape

studio brut
Performative installation in Virtual Reality Season Opening 2024/25 / World premiere in English
{Liminal Spaces} {Decision-making} {Right (not) to be forgotten}

DARUM goes digital. In Victoria Halper and Kai Krösche’s new performance installation [EOL]. End of Life, the audience gets to travel into a disused metaverse 1.0 by means of a pair of virtual-reality goggles. An intense, immersive journey across a virtual sea of ruins that confronts us with the question what traces we will leave once we are gone, and who will determine what to do with our digital legacy in the future.

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DARUM (Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche) – [EOL]. End of Life

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DARUM (Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche) – [EOL]. End of Life

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DARUM (Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche) – [EOL]. End of Life

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DARUM (Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche) – [EOL]. End of Life

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DARUM (Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche) – [EOL]. End of Life

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DARUM (Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche) – [EOL]. End of Life. Eine virtuelle Ruinenlandschaft

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DARUM (Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche) – [EOL]. End of Life

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DARUM (Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche) – [EOL]. End of Life

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DARUM (Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche) – [EOL]. End of Life

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DARUM (Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche) – [EOL]. End of Life

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DARUM (Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche) – [EOL]. End of Life

What do abandoned virtual places feel like? How much life is there in the digital image of a deceased person? Who am ‘I’ in the presence of the absent? Who and what is displaced from the future corporate metaverse? Picking up on themes of their hyperlink installation 404-TOTLINK created for Impulse Theater Festival 2021, DARUM takes a look at a possible not-so-distant future using the fairly recent means of virtual reality. In [EOL]. End of Life, the audience assumes the role of an ‘outsourced freelancer’ for the fictional trillion-dollar corporation IRL (Imaginary Reality Landscapes). The participant’s task is to determine which pieces of content should be permitted to exist in tomorrow’s vivid virtual parallel universes – and which should be irretrievably deleted. [EOL]. End of Life confronts the virtual travellers with a multitude of three-dimensional walk-in worlds and a considerable number of human traces; because the 1.0 version of this already collapsing, abandoned ‘metaverse’, while not connected to the online servers, preserves the digital echo of past lives – and with it the question of how we will once be – or want to be – remembered.

 

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DARUM (Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche) creates performances, installations, films, sound, video and media art. Deliberately blurring the lines between fact and fiction, DARUM creates pieces that try to direct the audiences’ focus on the unappeased and the contradictory associated with exceptional states and phenomena in our society. DARUM’s first performance in Vienna, Ungebetene Gäste (2019), was invited to Impulse Theater Festival in 2020 and nominated for a NESTROY special award. The duo’s performance installation Ausgang: Offen (2020), turned into a film due to COVID restrictions, was nominated for a NESTROY special COVID award, and its third and so far most recent performance production in Vienna, Heimweh (2022), won DARUM the 2023 NESTROY special award. DARUM’s film and media art projects have been presented in Germany (Hofer Filmtage; die digitale, Düsseldorf), Austria (Diagonale, Graz) and the United States (Seattle International Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival), among other places. www.darum.at

Pressestimmen

"Borderline brilliant"

Helmut Ploebst (Der Standard)

 

"Technically and dramaturgically exquisite, [EOL.] End of Life sets new standards in the elaborate genre [...] Don't miss it."

Martin Pesl (Falter. Die Wochenzeitung)

Credits

Created and directed by DARUM (Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche) 3D Architecture & Set Design (Virtual Reality) Mark Surges Music Arthur Fussy Design (live performance) Matthias Krische Texts Kai Krösche Character design & animations, costume design, photo-grammetry scanning, motion capturing and videos Victoria Halper 3D object animations Kai Krösche, Mark Surges Creative coding, motion capturing, lighting design & additional sound design Kai Krösche Testing & artistic feedback David Rosenberg, Matthias Krische, Matthias Seier, Arthur Fussy, Armin Kirchner, a.o.

Thanks to Götz Dipper, Bernd Lintermann, Tina Lorenz, Felix Mitterberger, Dorcas Müller, Susanna Neueder MSc. (Psyducated), James Stanson, Morgane Stricot

A co-production by DARUM and brut Wien

Funded by the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Civil Service and Sport.

The artistic conception of [EOL]. End of Life was supported by a scholarship from the Centre of Art and Media Karlsruhe.

Dates & Tickets

The respective timeslots can be booked in the webshop. One timeslot per visitor. Please arrive 10 minutes before your booked timeslot. There is no late admission. Duration of the performance: approx. 90 minutes.

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Sat & Son 2:00 pm / 2:10 pm / 2:20 pm / 2:30 pm / 2:40 pm / 2:50 pm /
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Tickets for the same day are available in the webshop.

September 2024

Thu. 26.09.2024, 16:30
€14 / Different timeslots from 4:30 pm

Fri. 27.09.2024, 16:30
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Sat. 28.09.2024, 20:30
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Sun. 29.09.2024, 20:30
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Mon. 30.09.2024, 20:30
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October 2024

Tue. 01.10.2024, 20:30
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Wed. 02.10.2024, 20:30
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Thu. 03.10.2024, 16:30
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