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[EOL]. End of Life

DARUM

Put on a VR headset and step into the decaying ruins of Metaverse 1.0. Decide for yourself which abandoned digital worlds survive and which are erased forever. An immersive quest along the digital echoes of people who are no longer here.

Entrance
€ 16,-
Duration
90 minutes
Location
Niemeyer
Accessibility

The worth of our digital remains

Did you know that around 2060, the dead will outnumber the living on the internet? 

In [EOL]. End of Life, you put on a VR headset and step into a series of abandoned virtual worlds. As an employee of the fictional company Imaginary Reality Landscapes (IRL), you are given a remarkable task: deciding which digital environments are preserved and which disappear forever. 

As the worlds slowly decay and come loose from their servers, you stumble upon traces of the people who once wandered through them. Conversations, memories, presence: no longer real, but not entirely gone either. 

This immersive VR experience moves somewhere between science fiction and a digital archaeological excavation. A slow-creeping and alienating journey along the abandoned remains of our ever-growing digital identities.

You decide how much they are worth. 

Ticket sales for this performance start on July 4 at 12:00 PM.

"[This] story, which cleverly and [...] movingly tests our relationship with digital heritage, should not be missed under any circumstances.

About the artist

DARUM, the Viennese collective of Victoria Halper and Kai Krösche, makes performances, installations and media artworks that explore the contradictions of our society. The duo's name says it all, really: why? 

>span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW257694258 BCX0">Nestroy Theatre Prizes and has been a guest at the Impulse Theater Festival. Their work moves fluidly between theatre, film and digital art. [EOL]. End of Life is their first VR production and was awarded the Nestroy Special Prize 2025. DARUM also won the Outstanding Artist Award 2025.