Dedo Vabo

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Dedo Vabo

Dedo Vabo creates in the realm of absurdity, combining visual art, technology and performance elements that “confuse, confound, and make people laugh.” With a cast and crew of about 180 fellow artists, makers, engineers, fabricators, special effects and animatronics experts, friends, and oddballs, they aim to entertain while highlighting the absurd, mundane, and sometimes-sinister undertones of society. The hippos were birthed at the Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk in 2011. They first came to Coachella in 2013 with Power Station and returned in 2015 with Corporate Headquarters.

Dedo Vabo

Dedo Vabo

Dedo Vabo creates in the realm of absurdity, combining visual art, technology and performance elements that “confuse, confound, and make people laugh.” With a cast and crew of about 180 fellow artists, makers, engineers, fabricators, special effects and animatronics experts, friends, and oddballs, they aim to entertain while highlighting the absurd, mundane, and sometimes-sinister undertones of society. The hippos were birthed at the Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk in 2011. They first came to Coachella in 2013 with Power Station and returned in 2015 with Corporate Headquarters.

Dedo Vabo

H.i.P.O. Hazardus Interstellar Perfessional Operations

The hippos return to the Coachella festival, determined to launch a rocket, H.I.P.O. – Hazardous Interstellar Planetary Object, to conquer the galaxy. Despite having no experience in rocketry, the hippos have constructed a space-faring vehicle unlike any other. Standing seventy-five feet tall, the rocket sits atop an advanced laboratory and mission control center filled with animatronics and interactive special effects. The circular base structure, seventy-two feet in diameter, consists of six performance spaces, where a team of dedicated hippos can be seen utilizing the facility’s extensive capabilities for deep-space communications, scientific experimentation, trajectory monitoring, and calculation of launch coordinates. The hippos’ lack of intergalactic experience never dampens their determination to construct and launch a rocket and claim the dominant position in the interspecies space race.

H.i.P.O. Hazardus Interstellar Perfessional Operations

The hippos return to the Coachella festival, determined to launch a rocket, H.I.P.O. – Hazardous Interstellar Planetary Object, to conquer the galaxy. Despite having no experience in rocketry, the hippos have constructed a space-faring vehicle unlike any other. Standing seventy-five feet tall, the rocket sits atop an advanced laboratory and mission control center filled with animatronics and interactive special effects. The circular base structure, seventy-two feet in diameter, consists of six performance spaces, where a team of dedicated hippos can be seen utilizing the facility’s extensive capabilities for deep-space communications, scientific experimentation, trajectory monitoring, and calculation of launch coordinates. The hippos’ lack of intergalactic experience never dampens their determination to construct and launch a rocket and claim the dominant position in the interspecies space race.