H.i.P.O

The return of the Hippos At Coachella Hazardus Interstellar Perfessional Operations (H.i.P.O.) is an 80′ tall rocket that sits atop an 80′ diameter launch platform and tower filled with performers dressed as hippopotamuses. It is the largest installation Dedo Vabo has built to date and is the centerpiece of the 2019 Coachella Music Festival. I worked as an…

Purgatory Door

Installation at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery Hollywood Forever Cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in Los Angeles, California. Using the mausoleum as the canvas, I used light, three-dimensional structures and projector mapping to tell a playful immersive story and juxtapose the colors of horror and whimsey.

Corporate Headquarters

Performance Art and Massive Installation at the 2015 Coachella Music Festival A dozen actors dressed in latex hippo masks and business suits populate the performance art installation, a three-story-high, glass-windowed office building erected in the middle of Coachella’s Empire Polo Field. Approximating the worst of office culture, grunting employees rummage wildly through file cabinets, smash…

Paradise

Creating Spaces to Escape Reality I’ve always had an image of myself escaping reality, going to the woods and growing my own farm, and everything being organic around my house. So I’ve always dreamt of escaping from everything, but I found out that that’s not totally possible because of the environment that I’ve been growing…