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'Deepfake'

- performance by Danish artist, Esben Weile Kjær with Salzburger Festspiele  costumes 

DEEPFAKE
Esben Weile Kjær

at Salzburger Kunstverein, Hellbrunnerstraße 3, 5020 Salzburg

19 July 2025 - 5:30pm, 7:30pm, 9:00pm

25 July 2025 - 9:00pm (no admission ticket necessary)

Free admission tickets (first come first serve) can be ordered online

www.salzburgerfestspiele.at

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
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

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