Superamas
Big Episode #2 (Show/Business)
Big Episode #2 (Show/Business)

| Performance | Part of Out There 18: Performance Meets the Moving Image |
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In this darkly comic funhouse critique of consumer culture, two men meet a pretty stewardess and begin to flirt. Scenes repeat, slightly altered each time. Perceptions slip. The wages of desire emerge as glimpses of global economics, war, and workplace politics that bubble up when least expected. Set in a dead-on re-creation of an airport terminal cosmetic counter/corporate office suite, this work by the French–Austrian cult performance collective Superamas splices and dices reality shows, soap operas, conceptual art, and Hollywood icons in a wickedly malicious examination of seduction and ideology. A Q&A follows the Friday performance.
Presented with the support of Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, Association Française d’Action Artistique (AFAA), and Austrian Cultural Forum, New York. Promotional partner: Star Tribune.