The book Super by multimedia artist Barbora Šlapetová is based on true stories and repeated encounters with the most prominent Papuan cannibal chiefs, who until recently lived on the level of the Stone Age and, like their ancestors travelled by using smoke to the upper levels of the Earth and lived surrounded by good and evil spirits. Over the years, the Yali Mek tribal chiefs expressed their wish to meet the greatest Czech chief; gain a deeper understanding of what artists do; or meet those who could fly up to the space just like their tribal magicians. And so the primeval chiefs met President Václav Havel; had their real bodies transformed into artworks; and met astronauts Leroy Chiao and Koichi Wakata. This historical dialogue of cultures has thus become - even with the rituals of the indigenous peoples - a contemporary art happening and, through animations, films, photographs and paintings, a visual probe into the souls of the last natural beings before globalisation changes them forever.
The book entitled Super also includes QR codes containing movie clips.