future supreme - stedelijk museum
future supreme - stedelijk museum
“Future Supreme”
An interactive audio-visual installation by:
Catarina Aimée Dahms a.k.a Cata.Pirata
In collaboration with:
Audio: Prehistoric Futuristic (Maximin Lavoo & CATA.PIRATA)
Performances: The Sweethearts (Amazing Agency)
Design: Ryan van Beurden (le Ryan)
Styling: Robbie Baauw (Amazing Agency)
VJ: Ken Wolff (Wolf Independents)
Production: Nahuel Blaton (AiArt)
Graphic design: Lesley Moore
Lead Artist, Composer & Creative Director | Future Supreme
Commissioned by N8 Museumnacht Amsterdam & Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Future Supreme is an interactive audio-visual installation that explores speculative futures through interdisciplinary composition, immersive spatial design, and participatory performance. Developed under my artistic identity CATA.PIRATA, the project integrates sound art, live performance, installation design, and audience interaction within a museum context.
The conceptual framework draws on the speculative cosmology and abstract spatial thinking of Russian Suprematist artist Kazimir Malevich. Inspired by Malevich’s visionary sketches of inhabitable planets and his pursuit of non-objective artistic language, the project examines how speculative artistic thinking can function as a tool for reimagining contemporary social and cultural realities. The installation positions science fiction as both an aesthetic and compositional methodology, using imagined environments as a means to interrogate present-day structures and propose alternative experiential futures.
As Lead Artist and Creative Director, I designed an immersive environment in which visitors entered a three-dimensional interpretation of a Malevich-inspired visual landscape. The installation functioned as an adaptive compositional system, allowing audiences to actively influence visual and sonic elements through their physical movement and spatial engagement. This participatory structure positioned visitors not as passive spectators but as co-creators within a continuously evolving audio-visual ecosystem.
The project featured an original spatial soundscape developed in collaboration with composer and producer Maximin Lavoo under the collaborative identity Prehistoric Futuristic. The sonic work combined electronic composition, experimental sound design, and live performance to create a layered, evolving auditory environment that responded dynamically to audience presence and temporal progression throughout the evening.
At scheduled intervals, the installation transitioned into hybrid live performance events incorporating DJ performance, choreographed performers, and real-time audio-visual manipulation. These performances expanded the installation into a temporally responsive work, exploring the relationship between fixed composition, improvisation, and audience-driven interaction.
The project required extensive interdisciplinary collaboration, integrating contributions from visual design, fashion, performance, live visual art, and technical production teams. My role involved leading the conceptual development, artistic direction, compositional design, and integration of collaborative creative outputs into a cohesive experiential artwork.
Future Supreme reflects my broader research interest in interactive composition as a spatial, social, and participatory practice. The work investigates how immersive audio-visual environments can operate as platforms for collective imagination, audience agency, and experimental storytelling within contemporary museum and public art contexts.