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Redoutensaal
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19. 03.2025, 14.00 h – 21.50 h
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22.03.2025, 14.30 h – 22.20 h
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[EOL]. End of Life
A virtual ruinscape
DARUM (Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche) [Austria]
Virtual reality performance
90 minutes
What do abandoned virtual places feel like? How much life is there in the digital image of the deceased? Who am I in the presence of the absent? And what has no place in the future metaverse of large corporations? With “[EOL]. End of Life”, the DARUM takes a look into a potential, not-too-distant future using the young medium of virtual reality.
As freelancers for the fictitious trillion-dollar corporation IRL (Imaginary Reality Landscapes), the audience takes on the role of those who will determine which content will have a place in the flourishing virtual parallel worlds of tomorrow -- and which will be irretrievably deleted. In doing so, “[EOL]. End of Life” confronts its virtual travelers with a multitude of accessible, three-dimensional worlds and no less a number of human traces. For in the decaying metaverse, the digital echo of past existences awaits - and with it the question of how we want to be remembered.
»[EOL]. End of Life« was recognized by FALTER as one of the 10 most outstanding productions of 2024..
»[EOL]. End of Life« was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen 2025.
Direction & Story DARUM (Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche)
3D architecture & set design (Vitual Reality) Mark Surges
Music Arthur Fussy
Set design (Liveperformance) Matthias Krische
Character design & animations, costume design, photogrammetry 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
Pictures (school world) Alexander Tingrui Wülferth (aged 4)
Testing & artistic feedback David Rosenberg, Matthias Krische, Matthias Seier, Arthur Fussy, Armin Kirchner u.a.
with Victoria Halper, James Stanson, Kai Krösche u.a.
Thanks to the discussion partners at the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe Götz Dipper, Bernd Lintermann, Tina Lorenz, Felix Mitterberger, Dorcas Müller, Morgane Stricot.
Susanna Neueder MSc. (Psyducated)
Funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna (MA7) and the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport.
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