Biography

We are KRA, a collective that creates interdisciplinary projects that balance somewhere between theater, satire, and political action. In our work, we push the boundaries between fiction and reality, using humor to challenge established narratives. Who actually gets to save the world? Who is heard? And which stories do we believe when it comes to our future?

At the heart of all our projects is a bold, ironic premise: we claim to solve all global conflicts - from a small village in Austria. This exaggerated ambition serves as an artistic tool, allowing us to critically engage with power structures and savior narratives. Our performances often take place in non-theatrical spaces, disrupting traditional audience dynamics and recontextualising social issues through participatory storytelling. Humor and playfulness are central to our practice, but always as a means to reveal deeper structural questions.

Artistic project

Mission Arnold Schwarzenegger is an interactive performance in public space - and a live film shoot.
In each city, we create a new episode: written, rehearsed, and filmed together with the people and stories we encounter. 

We are a mobile team of three performers traveling with cameras, microphones, props, and a flexible setup. In the performance, the audience is not just watching, they will get part of something bigger. Some become extras. Some hold a mic or a light. Some suggest a line of dialogue that makes it into the script. No one has to act, but everyone becomes part of the scene. Over several days, different scenes emerge, forming parts of a growing cinematic universe - the first action movie with climate heroes. The setting can be a parking lot, a market square, a garage, or a meadow - each place shapes what happens. Audiences are invited to witness and subtly influence the process becoming part of an unfolding narrative that connects places, people, and questions across borders. 

This open format raises a key question: Are we merely watching myths being made or are we part of how they continue?
As aging male leaders continue to cast themselves as heroic figures, Mission Arnold Schwarzenegger examines why society remains so willing to believe in them, despite their failures. We explore why we keep returning to these stories, and how they shape our cultural response to crisis.

The project is a response to the collective exhaustion around the climate crisis - the guilt, the overwhelm, the paralysis. Instead of offering ready-made messages or moral lessons, it creates a space for shared imagination and collective action. It’s not about knowing exactly what to do, but about doing something together. About trying. About showing up.

We wanted to start somewhere concrete. So we chose the car.
Because it’s everywhere. Because it’s visible. Because it’s still the sacred cow of a fossil era.
Each new episode focuses on questions of mobility, car culture, and the infrastructures of the surroundings. We research locally, write locally, and shoot each scene in direct dialogue with its environment. Over time, a fragmented, multi-voiced film emerges -  raw, playful and full of contradictions, but driven by the belief that something can change, if we make it together.

Format: interactive performance 

Size of audience: ca. 25 people, depending on the space

Specific location: flexible

Timing / duration: 60-70 min.