Assume Vivid Astro Focus

Artists collaborating in assume vivid astro focus projects have included: Kenny Scharf, Shoplifter; Michael Lazarus, Melissa Stabile de Mello, Fábio Gurjão, Desi Santiago, Kleber Matheus, Giles Round, Malcolm Stuart, Honeygun Labs (Bec Stupak), Rick Castro; Vava Dudu, Carla Machado, Renata Abbade, Rodrigo Garcia Dutra, JK5 (Joseph Ari Aloi), Pipa Ambrogi, Marco Boggio Sella, Cibelle, Carolina Gold, Black Meteoric Star (Gavin Russom), Silvia Moraes, and Melissa Stabile de Mello. Avaf has been featured in Artforum, Frieze, Flash Art, L'Uomo Vogue, V Magazine, and W Magazine. The name derives from two musical sources: Throbbing Gristle's album Assume Power Focus, and the band Ultra Vivid Scene.

• Name — Assume Vivid Astro Focus • Known for — Contemporary art Site-specific art • Occupation — Art collective • Movement — Contemporary art Conceptual art

Recent avaf collective exhibitions include: • Tropicália, curated by Carlos Basualdo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Barbican Arts Centre, London, UK, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York • Trial Ballons/Globos Sonda, curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Agustin Pérez Rubio, and Octavio Zaya, MUSAC, León, Spain • Infinite Painting, curated by Francesco Bonami and Sarah Cosulich, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Codroipo, Italy. • "absolutely venomous accurately fallacious (Naturally Delicious)," Deitch Projects, New York • "In Living Contact," 28th São Paulo Biennial, curated by Ivo Mesquita, São Paulo, Brazil • "FAUX DARK SHADA RUSTIC MONIQUES," Hiromi Yoshii Gallery. Tokyo, Japan • "Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. Tokyo, Japan • "Destroy Athens," Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece • "a very anxious feeling," John Connelly Presents, New York • "Abra Vana Allucinete Fogo," Casa Triangulo, São Paulo, Brazil • "butch queen realness with a twist of pastel color," John Connelly Presents, New York, USA • "Open Call," Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria • "The Garden Party", Deitch Projects, New York • "absorb viral attack fantasy", Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo, Japan • "assume vivid astro focus XVI", Galeria Massimo de Carlo (project space), Milan, Italy • "Panic Room" works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation Centre For Contemporary Art, Athens • "Ecstasy: In and About Altered States," Museum of Contemporary Art, The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, California • "assume vivid astro focus XII", Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England • "assume vivid astro focus XIX", Hotel, London • "assume vivid astro focus XX", Galerie Art: Concept • "Off the Wall Series", Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, • "assume vivid astro focus XIV" (in collaboration with Elmgreen and Dragset), Galeria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Fall/Winter, 2005 • "assume vivid astro focus XII", Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England • "ReACT: An Evening of Performance/A Day Without Art," group show featuring avaf as well as Reena Spaulings, Joan Jonas, AA Bronson, and Black Leotard Front; curated by Sheri L. Pasquarella, 2003, New York. Sudbrack has had solo projects at: • Massimo de Carlo Gallery, Milan, Italy • Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan • Galeria Triangulo, São Paulo, Brazil • Deitch Projects, New York