‘Inside Superamas’ is the kick-off of the collaboration between Superamas and Arts Centre Vooruit during the next couple of years. The members of Superamas will be given space and time to co-develop the theatre programmation of Vooruit and break into it.

On this evening Superamas will re-enact scenes from their repertoire, together with air-hostess Elisa Benureau and gogo-danser Yalda. These short performances will then be criticised on the spot by art critics Elke Van Campenhout, Frank Van De Veire and Rudi Laermans.

Nested in the light-work installation Diggin' Up 2 (Digital light/Absorption), the bodies and their presence are presented to the eye in a reversed way: instead of reflecting the light, they are absorbing it.

The graph inside which these bodies register offers different outlines, different representational codes. The hypnotic aspect of the meeting invites the eye to measure how relative the notion of space is.

With Diggin' Up 2, we now dive in another space of representation. This time with a strong focus on the ambiguity of the performer's "presence". The performance/installation can be played with and without performers. Therefore do we still need "live" performers? Or could we say that their representation is good enough to register their presence on stage? This work obviously questions how we perceive the subject. It leads us to reconsider our own activating role within this setting. Something comes up, fades away and finally returns… this is what we are invited to experience. Through this mechanism of emptying the subject and the object, we of course outline a shift from spectator to director. Each spectator will effectively realize his own personal piece according his optical abilities, the time span spent with the work… according to the present circumstances.

Bâtard invited Sarma to speak to some ‘beginning’ collectives, with each of them having a particular view on this habitat, each of them their own motives to invent a sort of niche for sharing work, support or simply a voice, and each of them hosting a particular practice of collaboration. Diederik Peeters translated his lecture about the “desire of an archetypical individual artist” (April 2011, first presented at the launch of the field analysis of VTI) for us to English; the other members of SPIN will be present to contextualize this lecture and to speak about their collective desire to put the artist back in the centre of all aspects of art making. CABRA is invited to discuss collaboration on and off stage, open source production, various forms of engagement towards each other’s work, and friendship.

In 2011 Sarma organizes a series of monthly salons which all focus on new artistic practices and discourses. How do artists work today? How do they speak about their method? How can one make a start with documenting, discussing and sharing the hybrid and heterogeneous practices that underpin the performing arts today? How can the informal and embodied discourses, as well as the implicit knowledge they carry, find a wider recognition and accessibility? During the salon at Bâtard we will speak about practices of structural collaboration, both the political and artistic aspects of working together, and self-organization among artists.

SPIN members are Diederik Peeters, Hans Bryssinck, Kate McIntosh and Els Silvrants-Barclay.
CABRA members are Rita, Sara Manente, Marcos Simoes, Varinia Canto Vila, Norberto Llopis Segarra, Kyung Ae Ro, Jaime Llopis and Santiago Ribelles Zorita. More about CABRA: cabra.weebly.com