[EOL]. END OF LIFE
Performative installation in virtual reality
How should we deal with our digital legacy? What traces of our daily interactions on the World Wide Web do we leave behind, and how far does our responsibility for them extend?
In [EOL]. End of Life, the directing duo DARUM, who were invited to participate in the 2025 Berlin Theater Meeting, invite viewers on an extraordinary journey into virtual intermediate worlds. A limited space of 9.6 m² becomes an unmanageable metaverse for participants equipped with VR glasses, in which they must decide what should be permanently deleted and what should be transferred to the metaverse. The deeper one delves, the more the boundaries between real and digital existence blur. With their work, DARUM pose the question of how we (want to) be remembered on the internet—and who will one day decide on our digital legacy.
Only a few tickets available: An intense, exclusive experience that allows ten people at a time to enter the ruins of a collapsed metaverse as “freelancers” of a fictional corporation.
After the performance on February 10, there will be a discussion with freelance journalist Katrin Ullmann.
Direction & Story DARUM (Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche)
3D Architecture & Set Design (Virtual Reality) Mark Surges
Music Arthur Fussy
Set Design (Live Performance) Matthias Krische
Texts Kai Krösche
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 & supplementary sound design Kai Krösche
Testing & artistic feedback David Rosenberg, Matthias Krische, Matthias Seier, Arthur Fussy, Armin Kirchner, et al.
With Victoria Halper, Kai Krösche, James Stanson
A co-production by DARUM and brut Wien.
Supported by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna (MA7) and the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service, and Sport.
The concept development of [EOL]. End of Life was supported by a residency at the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany.
