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.
Directed & Story by: Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche (DARUM()
3D-Design, virtual set design: Mark Surges
Music: Arthur Fussy
Live stage design: Matthias Krische
Character Design & Animation, Costume Design, Photogrammetry Scanning, Motion Capturing and Videos: Victoria Halper
3D Object Animation: Kai Krosche, Mark Surges
Creative Coding, Motion Capturing, Lighting Design & additional Sound Design: Kai Krösche
Drawings (School): Alexander Tingrui Wülferth
Testing & Artistic Feedback: David Rosenberg, Matthias Krische, Matthias Seier, Flori Gugger, Arthur Fussy, Armin Kirchner
Special Thanks: James Stanson, Sophia Scherbaum Team Touring: Haiko Pfost (Tour Management/Production), Armin Kirchner (Tour Manage-
ment/Production), David Rosenberg (Onboarder), Verena Jochum (Onboarder).
With: Victoria Halper, Kai Krösche, James Stanson
We would like to thank our interview partners:
From the Center for Art and Media Karlsuhe: Götz Dipper, Bernd Lintermann, Tina Lorenz, Felix Mitter-
berger, Dorcas Müller, Morgane Stricot. Susanna Neueder MSc. (Psyducated)
Funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna and the Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture,
Media and Sport.
The artistic development of [EOL]. End of Life was supported by a residency at the Centre for Art and Media
Karlsruhe, Germany.
A project selected by the platform Prospero NEW, co-funded by Creative Europe programme of the Euro-
pean Union.