Thu 25.02.27 —
Fri 26.02.27
Artificial by Nature
Nineties & Annelinde Bruijs
EN
NL
EOL. End of Life
EOL. End of Life
EOL. End of Life
24.03.27 — 27.03.27
EOL. End of Life
24.03.27 — 27.03.27What is it like to experience abandoned virtual worlds? What remains of a person when they exist only as a digital reconstruction? And who are you yourself when you can only observe from the perspective of the absent?
Building on the hyperlink installation 404-TOTLINK (Impulse Theatre Festival, Germany, 2021), [EOL]. End of Life allows the audience to step into a not-so-distant future via a Meta Quest 3 virtual reality headset.
Participants take on the role of ‘outsourced freelancers’ for the fictional billion-dollar company IRL (Imaginary Reality Landscapes). Commissioned by that company, they decide which abandoned worlds may continue to exist in the virtual utopias of tomorrow’s metaverse and which will be permanently erased.
In this series of navigable 3D environments, a slowly decaying Metaverse 1.0 unfolds, disconnected from its servers but still full of digital traces of human presence. Echoes of former lives linger in spaces that are simultaneously empty and charged, raising the question of how memory relates to erasure. How will we ourselves ever continue to exist in systems that preserve or delete us?
Practical info
Duration
90 mins
Tickets
→ 15-22 euros
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Language
English
Good to know
A project selected by the platform Prospero NEW, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
They saw the play and said:
With ‘EOL’, Theatertreffen has caught a glimpse of the future — a foretaste of what performance art might one day look like: no longer person-to-person, yet still theatrical, strongly feedback-driven and interactive. It is the most idiosyncratic, unique, and distinctive invitation since Gob Squad’s pandemic milestone ‘Show Me A Good Time’.
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