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    Artwork Survey: 2000s

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    • Walking on Thin Ice
      video stills
      2002
      Video, 5 minutes and 51 seconds

      Featuring Carla Machado

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    • Walking on Thin Ice
      video stills
      2002
      Video, 5 minutes and 51 seconds

      Featuring Carla Machado

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    • Walking on Thin Ice
      video stills
      2002
      Video, 5 minutes and 51 seconds

      Featuring Carla Machado

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    • assume vivid astro focus VII
      2003
      Mixed media installation
      Dimensions variable

      Installation at Deitch Projects, New York

      Photo: Tom Powell Imaging

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    • Garden IX
      2003
      Wallpaper and floor and ceiling decals

      In collaboration with George Maynard
      Installation at Deitch Projects, New York

      Photo: Tom Powell Imaging

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    • assume vivid astro focus IX
      2004
      Floor sticker on dance skate rink

      DJ booth designed by Rama Chorpash
      In The Public Realm, Skate Circle’s Rink, Central Park, New York
      Public Art Fund in conjunction with the 2004 Whitney Biennial

      Photo: Eric Weiss

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    • Garden XI
      2004
      Floor sticker
      Dimensions variable

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    • assume vivid astro focus VIII
      2004
      Mixed media installation
      Dimensions variable

      2004 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

      Photo: Mauro Restiffe

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    • Garden X
      2004
      Wallpaper
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    • assume vivid astro focus XI
      2004
      Mixed media installation
      Dimensions variable
      Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz collection, Key Biscayne

      Photo: CM Guerrero and assume vivid astro focus

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    • assume vivid astro focus XI
      opening night performances
      2004
      Mixed media installation
      Dimensions variable

      Opening night performances by Trajal Harrell Dance Style

      Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz collection, Key Biscayne

      Photo: CM Guerrero and assume vivid astro focus

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    • homocrap#1
      2005
      Mixed media installation
      Dimensions variable

      Ecstasy: In and About Altered States, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

      Photo: Josh White

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    • Butch Queen 5 (Le Sportsac)
      2005
      Wallpaper
      Dimensions variable

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    • absorb viral attack fantasy
      2006
      Mixed media installation
      Dimensions variable

      Installation at Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo

      Photo: Atsushi Yoshimine

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    • abra vana alucinete fogo
      2006
      Mixed media installation
      Dimensions variable

      Installation at Casa Triângulo, São Paulo

      Photo: Mauro Restiffe

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    • open call
      2006
      Mixed media installation
      Dimensions variable

      Installation at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

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    • a very anxious feeling
      2007
      Mixed media installation
      Dimensions variable

      Installation at John Connelly Presents, New York

      Photo: Joanne Kim

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    • a very anxious feeling
      performance program
      2007
      Mixed media installation
      Dimensions variable

      Performance program curated by Eric Schmalenberger and assume vivid astro focus
      Pictured: Frankie Martin (left); BARR (right)
      Installation at John Connelly Presents, New York

      Photo: Joanne Kim

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    • afovi vevilosi aftistikon fantasioseon
      day time view (top) and night time view (bottom)
      2007
      Mixed-media installation
      Dimensions variable

      Destroy Athens, 1st Athens Biennale, Technopolis, Gazi, Athens

      Photo: Vassilis Polychronakis

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    • anatato vuivui atoteki fukusayo
      exterior view (top) and interior view (bottom)
      2007–08
      Mixed media installation
      Dimensions variable

      Space for Your Future: Recombining the DNA of Art and Design, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOT), Tokyo

      Photo: Keizo Kioku

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    • shada shada la chatte
      2007

      Performance as part of Noche en Blanco, Matadero, Madrid
      Organized by Museum Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia and ARCO, Madrid

      Photo: Alfredo Piola

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    • Performance as part of “Super#3-DFA Meets Dalbin,” Maison des Arts de Créteil, Paris
      2008

      Organized by Dalbin, Paris

      Photo: Yves Malenfer

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    • avaf vs. honeygun labs #4
      video stills
      2008
      Video, 4 minutes and 37 seconds

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    • avaf vs. honeygun labs #4
      video stills
      2008
      Video, 4 minutes and 37 seconds

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    • avaf vs. honeygun labs #4
      video stills
      2008
      Video, 4 minutes and 37 seconds

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    • absolutely venomous accurately fallacious (naturally delicious)
      2008
      Mixed media installation
      Dimensions variable

      Installation at Deitch Projects, Long Island City, New York

      Photo: Tom Powel Imaging

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    • aqui volvemos adornos frivolos
      2008
      Mixed-media installation
      Dimensions variable

      Installation at Peres Projects, Berlin

      Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul

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    • absurd vanilla anus flavor (crawl girl 02)
      2008
      Marker and ink on paper
      36 × 29 cm

      Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul

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    • alive voracious appetite folly (crawl girl 05)
      2008
      Marker and ink on paper
      36 × 29 cm

      Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul

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    • aujourdhui vous arez faim (crawl girl 07)
      2008
      Marker and ink on paper
      36 × 29 cm

      Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul

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    • alles vorzuglich alles fantastisch (crawl girl 10)
      2008
      Marker and ink on paper
      36 × 29 cm

      Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul

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    • ameixa vazio attack fátima
      2008
      Neon installation
      Dimensions variable

      Installation at Casa Triângulo, São Paulo

      Photo: Edouard Fraipont

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    • axé vatapá alegria feijão
      2008
      Mixed media installation and performance
      Dimensions variable

      In Living Contact, 28th Bienal de São Paulo, Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo

      Photo: Edouard Fraipont

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    • axé vatapá alegria feijão
      2008
      Mixed media installation and performance
      Dimensions variable

      In Living Contact, 28th Bienal de São Paulo, Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo

      Photo: Edouard Fraipont

      © assume vivid astro focus

    • axé vatapá alegria feijão
      2008
      Mixed media installation and performance
      Dimensions variable

      In Living Contact, 28th Bienal de São Paulo, Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo

      Photo: Almica Packer (left) and Edouard Fraipont (middle and bottom)

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    • Menschen Tiere Sensationen / ancient vagrancy appolonian futurism
      2009
      Mixed media installation
      Dimensions variable

      Installation at Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany

      Photo: Boris Golz and assume vivid astro focus

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    • affektert veggmaleri akselererende faenksap
      exterior view
      2009
      Mixed media installation
      Dimensions variable

      Exterior: Legged Pussy Mouth (inflatable slide)
      The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo

      Photo: Anne Hansteen Jarre (first and second) and Geir Haraldseth (third and fourth)

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    • affektert veggmaleri akselererende faenksap
      interior view
      2009
      Mixed media installation
      Dimensions variable

      Interior: Retrospective of avaf wallpaper pieces displayed in a labyrinth form
      The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo

      Photo: Andreas Harvik

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