Superamas is a collective whose members stick to their principle of refusing individual recognition as a rejection of the media-centric cult of the artist as personality. By calling themselves Superamas – a term borrowed from astrophysics and which refers to galactic mounds and the way they migrate, as well as being the name of a supermarket chain in the southern states of the US – these French and Austrian artists have gained their reputation with various and varied creative projects including luminous installations (Diggin-up, Play-Mobile), videos (Billy Billy, Truck Station), performance art (Auto-mobile, Body Builder) and shows (Big 1st Episode - Artificial Intelligence/ Reality Show, Big 2nd Episode - Show/Business and Big 3rd Episode - Happy/end). Their theatre concept, something of a semiotic analysis of our time, develops through the application of a joyful method of “un-editing”. The script is scenic and exalting; its task is to scan reality, to pick out the biggest, grossest and most incomprehensible mistakes in the language of
multimedia.
Ten poles erected in a circle, ten flags hoisted and lowered, unfurling and rolling up, moving, dancing to the music of Mozart. The scene is set for the dance of the nations who rallied and now tear each other apart over the Middle East.
This choreographic sculpture has surprising poetical grace and reminds us of the bond between music and the birth of nations, such as, for example, the link between Verdi and the Italian Republic, or in France, between Louis XIV and Lully.
It is by capturing our emotion, in reminding us of cinema pictures and big mass ceremonies, such as the opening of the Olympic Games, that High Art is disturbing and questions the impossible separation of the history of music, of visual arts, of dance and of cultural and social forces lurking beneath the surfaces of geopolitics, nationalism and the globalisation present in our world today.
Production
création au :festival international Hoellenfahrt dans le cadre de l'année Mozart-Vienne 2006
coproduction :Superamas, Impulstanz (Vienne)
avec le soutien de :la Ville de Vienne et du ministère fédéral de l'Éducation, des Arts et de la Culture d'Autriche
en collaboration avec: le Centre chorégraphique Linz (Autriche)