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> 2022 (Japan Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia, 2022)
Installation view, Japan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, 2022. Photo: Yuki Seli © Dumb Type, Courtesy of The Japan Foundation		Commissioned by the Japan Foundation for the Japan Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia 2022. 23 April - 27 November 2022: 59th International Art exhibition - Biennale di Venezia 2022, Venice (IT). 25 February - 14 May 2023: adapted version as 2022: remap at the Artizon Museum in Tokyo (JP). Based on the installation, an audiovisual live, 2022: remix, was presented on 30th November 2022 at Teatro Goldoni, Venice (IT) and later on 11-12 March 2023 at NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] in Tokyo, ICC 25th Anniversary Event (JP).



> TRACE/REACT II (2020)
TRACE/REACT II © Dumb Type		Installation presented from the 21 January 2020 to 16 February 2020, as part of ACTIONS+REFLECTIONS (Dumb Type solo exhibition), MOT-Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (JP).



> LOVE/SEX/DEATH/MONEY/LIFE (1994-2018)
LOVE/SEX/DEATH/MONEY/LIFE © Dumb Type		Created for the exhibition Of the Human Condition: Hope and Despair at the End of the Century in 1994, this video installation comprises visuals also featured in the stage projection of the performance S/N that same year. In this controversial work, Dumb Type applied the concept of the "signal/noise" ratio from communications and electrical engineering to contemporary social issues of gender, HIV/AIDS, sexualities, race, nationality, minority- and sex -discrimination, going beyond the borders of performance art to embrace a broad range of cooperations and involvements with various communities. A new version was presented from the 20 January to 14 May 2018, as part of ACTIONS+REFLEXIONS (Dumb Type solo exhibition), Centre Pompidou-Metz (FR).



> pH (1990-2018)
pH © Jacqueline Trichard Courtesy of Centre Pompidou-Metz		Installation related to the performance premiered in 1990, featuring a new kind of theatrical set: a central (trench' is swept by two constantly moving gantries controlled by computer. The original, uppermost gantry was fitted with surveillance equipment and slide projectors. Suspended close to the ground, the second gantry projected a bright light evoking the scanner of a giant photocopier. A new version was presented for the first time from 20 January to 14 May 2018, as part of ACTIONS+REFLEXIONS (Dumb Type solo exhibition), Centre Pompidou-Metz (FR).



> Playback (1989-2022)
Playback © Shiro Takatani		The installation is inspired by Pleasure Life (1988). First presented in 1989, in a version featuring twelve turntables, Playback is an installation comprising a range of audio sources: music composed in the 80s by two Dumb Type members (Toru Yamanaka and Teiji Furuhashi), bizarre vocalisations on English language lessons and greetings recorded in a variety of languages from the data disc, to be sent into space aboard the NASA Voyager probe in 1977. A new version was presented from 20 January to 14 May 2018, as part of ACTIONS+REFLEXIONS (Dumb Type solo exhibition), Centre Pompidou-Metz (FR).



> MEMORANDUM OR VOYAGE (2014) — commissioned by Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art (JP)
memorandum © Shiro Takatani		This audiovisual installation weaves visual imagery and sound from past works OR (1997), *memorandum* (1999) and *Voyage* (2002) together with new graphics on a huge ultra-high definition 4K vision screen. Presented for the first time at the Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, as part of the exhibition Body/Leaps/Traces, from 27 September until 16 November 2014.



> Voyages (2002) — special creation for the NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo (JP)
Voyages © Kazuo Fukunaga		Voyages is the installation related to the performance Voyage (2002) and was commissioned by the NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] in Tokyo in August 2002. "This overlapping of perspectives creates a sense of vertigo as if looking down on oneself from the air." Eiji Yamamori - Asahi Shimbun (Japan).



> [OR] - installation (1997-2000)
[OR] © ICC + dumb type, 1997 InterCommunication Center, Tokyo		The original version is part of the permanent collection of the ICC in Tokyo. The new version of the installation belongs to the Musée d'Art Contemporain in Lyons (France).