Opening night: Saturday October 8th, 2005
Exhibition runs until February 20th, 2006

assume vivid astro focus' latest installation HOMOCRAP #1 opened at The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, USA on Saturday October 8th as part of ‘Ecstacy: In and About Altered States of Perception’, a major exhibition curated by Paul Schimmel. HOMOCRAP #1 (2005) is the most ambitious installation staged by avaf to date, with the collective this time including works by Anna Sew Hoy, Giles Round and Paloma Mentirosa. Representing Berlin’s infamous ‘Panorama Bar’, a gay nightclub in a former power station outside Berlin city centre, avaf filled his room with club trappings such as chain curtains, sadistic psychedelic-erotic wall paintings, throbbing speakers, neons and dry ice. Photographs of political protests lined the entrance passage, linking the installation’s hedonistic atmosphere to struggles for human rights and sexual freedom. Masks with 3-D vision eye windows enabled more carnivalesque enjoyment of the environment, as seen by the films capturing the neon lights in 3-D, and the guests who became drag queens, by face. Homo Crap #00 and 01 are the fold out posters showing anti-gay protesters, anti Bush imagery and alongside fabulous show-boys, and the visceral irreverence of avaf in action, all posted in the ephemera section.