SUPERAMAS Information

In astrophysics, the French word “Superamas” designates a galactic super cluster in migration, the largest known structure in the universe; on the stage, it is a collective that says “us” to better assert its singularity. A Superamas show is therefore many people on the stage, incomparable energy, lightness and complexity mixed together, pleasure and seduction combined with a pitiless criticism of our media, social and political reality. As they say “An eminently political position is incumbent on artists today: to not leave the monopoly of amusement up to Walt Disney. In other words: “acting like a whore” can be an extremely subversive position. And Superamas’ shows really cause critical damage through the implosion of pleasure: they perfectly mime our spectacular shortcomings to better challenge our condition of spectator/actor in an over-mediatized, over-productive world whose obsession with power runs in fourth gear as well as in neutral. The European artists who make up Superamas, a migrant and international structure based in Austria, Belgium and France, play with all supports and all genres: theatre, dance, video, performance, installations, conversations, cocktail parties, the G8 or even schoolboy pranks between friends and a huge pharaonic spectacle. The company toys with the differences between art and kitsch, elite and popular culture, television and theatre. They use theatrical conventions to ask questions, without giving bite-size answers.