25.07.2025 | 21:00 Uhr
currently closed
Performance “DEEPFAKE” by Esben Weile Kjær with sound by Croatian Amor. Commissioned and produced by Salzburger Kunstverein and Salzburger Festspiele (2025). Curated by Mirela Baciak and Elisabeth Oberleitner. Photo: kunst-dokumentation.
DEEPFAKE
Esben Weile Kjær
19 July 2025 5:30 PM, 7:30 PM, 9:00 PM
25 July 2025 9:00 PM
In DEEPFAKE, Danish artist Esben Weile Kjær turns the Salzburg Festival’s costume archive into a stage of glitchy déjà vu. Historic garments are worn and looped through by performers trained in physical theatre, mimicking the repetition and absurdity of meme culture.
Set within the exhibition landscape at Salzburger Kunstverein, the piece stages the body as an unstable interface—shifting between roles, eras, and affective registers. Here, identity is in flux, history is a loop, and justice is a moving target.
In the algorithmic dream logic, DEEPFAKE slips between theatre and image culture, asking what it means to perform authenticity in an age of deepfakes—when even our convictions are caught on repeat.
Performers:
Kim Ceysens
Esben Weile Kjær
Marta De Masi
Nis Fee Brender
Musician:
Croatian Amor
Performance produced by Salzburger Kunstverein and the Salzburg Festival.
Curated by Mirela Baciak and Elisabeth Oberleitner.
