Emilie Viaut

Emilie Viaut is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology of Art at the New Sorbonne University - Paris III, France and at the Research Centre on Social Links - CERLIS, Paris. She currently finalises the writing of her dissertation supervised by Pr Bruno Péquignot, Research Director.
Based on qualitative methods, this research aims to explore contemporary artists’ career path and strategies, toward an international and comparative case study:
Wonderful District, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam http://www.wonderfuldistrict.org/
Espace 29, Bordeaux, France http://espace29.blogspot.com/
She dedicated two years of her Doctorate meeting and interviewing the promoters and the artists hosted in studios of Espace 29.
Now, she conducts a research stay in Vietnam thanks to the Vent d’Est funding delivered by the French Embassy in Vietnam. She is settled in Asia from January to December 2009 in order to complete a cooperative experience with the Vietnamese Research Institute on Culture and Arts – VICAS, Hanoï.
She meanwhile carries out collecting data on her research fieldwork in Ho Chi Minh city, next to Wonderful District. She is working with Sandrine Llouquet and Bertrand Peret since December 2003, observing their career trajectory for five years. This perspective steadily updated through interviews builds up a rich corpus of data about their work. It witnesses as well the evolution of their reflexion on Art and the new forms that take their artistic plans/ projects/ actions.
More information:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/emilieviaut
http://www.cerlis.fr/pagesperso/doctorants/viautEmilie.htm
http://www.afs-socio.fr/rep/hopmembres/ficheperso.php?&id=1089&id_rub=4

wonderful district
80/9 Nguyễn Trãi District 1 Ho Chi Minh City, VIETNAM