DARUM (Wien)
Biography:
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 performance production in Vienna, Heimweh (2022), won DARUM the 2023 NESTROY special award. In 2025, they are represented with [EOL]. End of Life, a co-production of brut Wien, as one of the ten most important productions at the Theatertreffen Berlin and show the VR performance at the Perspectives Festival, the Impulse Festival, the Festival Politik im Freien Theater Leipzig and finally as a revival at brut Wien. In 2025, DARUM also premieres the stage work Alle Lust at the Theater am Werk and the project PSEUDORAMA, together with the research platform DOSSIER, at the Volkstheater Wien. 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.
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