wonderful district

For the Month of Image, the work of Wonderful District principally focuses around an architectural form named aliceIN..., conceived by the architect Tam Vo Phi and the engineer Olivier Llouquet.

Although there is one artist intervention per day, Alice was conceived as an autonomous work that can stand alone. From outside, the viewer sees an asymmetrical and illuminated structure whose elongated appearance is slightly modified from one location to another. This irregular and undefined structure not only evoked an organic evolving form - a kind of larva or cocoon; it is an emblematic, sculptural structure and an exhibition space as well. Situated at the intersection of themes researched by the Collective artists – from the adaptation of the artist to a new context, to architectural modifications and hybrid beings, the cohabitation between nature and new technologies, and the idea of nomadism – this structure uses both high- and low-tech material. These characteristics are accentuated playfully contrasting interior and exterior.

Participants: Richard Streitmatter-Tran, Nhu Huy, Robert Cianchi, Bertrand Peret and Sandrine Llouquet.

Organized by Wonderful District: series of workshops at Colette school during one week in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

With Anna-Tuyen Tran (little stories), Jean Phan (posters), Olivier Llouquet (video), Bertrand Peret (wall painting and sculpture), Sandrine Llouquet (flash animation).

Exhibition of the works at Colette School.

Publication of a book and a DVD.

Curated by Wonderful District:
A wonderful week end took place at 72-13 in Singapore from April 5 to 7. This art event included two new installations by Bertrand Peret and Sandrine Llouquet, video animations by french artist Stephane Cochard and a selection of works by creators who have been working with Wonderful/Wonderful District.
Electronic music live performances by Vu Nhat Tan , Madame Patate, Robert Cianchi, NS101, and video projections by Jean Phan, Rich Streitmatter-Tran and Sandrine Llouquet, DJ sessions by Be-tong, Fugu, NS101 and JVC took place during 3 nights.

At the same time, A Wonderful Weekend aimed to draw a portrait of Wonderful through a non-exhaustive but representative selection of works and documents and through talks and presentations.

Exhibitions:
Bertrand Peret and Sandrine Llouquet : "Le temps est magnifique", light installation (space 1)
Stephane Cochard : "Sunday" (videoprojection), "Variations in ASCIImation", ASCIImation (space 1)
Bertrand Peret : "Running around my brain", video installation (space 2)
Sandrine Llouquet : Untitled (Every time the bell rings and I take off the cover, I seem to find something I've never seen before.), installation and videoanimations (space 3)

Co-production Wonderful District:
“Pendant la chute j’ai pense”, theatre performance by French actress Karen Maldonado at Atelier Wonderful, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

Responding to the need of a space for meeting and sharing ideas around art, where proximity between organizers/creators and the public is essential, Atelier Wonderful took place in Bertrand and Sandrine 's apartment-studio beginning in February 2006.

Atelier Wonderful took place over 5 months, at the rate of at least one weekly meeting (art installation or presentation, video projection, lecture &) between a creator or an artwork and the public.

This supported rhythm of events, accommodated by a reconfiguration of the Atelier space each week, aimed to drive a new dynamic in the contemporary art field over a determined period in Ho Chi Minh city.

Free access to an art library of international books and magazines, exchanges between Vietnamese and foreign people, visual artists, illustrators, musicians, performers, film makers, architects and students, the dialog which was established.... all played the role of revealing the aesthetic transversalities among different fields and cultures.

This impelled the creation of new artistic collaborations independent of Wonderful District.

see atelier's blog

Organized by Wonderful District:
one month of exhibitions, sound and video performances in Ho Chi Minh city.

With : Benoit Maire (France), Bertrand Peret (France/Vietnam), Bui Cong Khanh (Vietnam), Heidi (France), Rich Streitmatter-Tran (USA/ Vietnam), Sandrine Llouquet (France/Vietnam), Tran Kim Ngoc (Vietnam)

Locations : Galerie Quynh, Blue Space Gallery, Fine Art Museum

Bertrand Peret's show Photosynthesys at Galerie Quynh:





Photosynthesys' closing party - live music by Heidi:



Bertrand Peret' talk:



"Rendezvous" at Blue Space Gallery and Fine Art Museum:



Heidi's live music and video peformance:





Tran Kim Ngoc's performance:



Bui Cong Khanh's video installation:



Rich Streitmatter-Tran's video installation:



Sandrine Llouquet's light installation:



Sandrine Llouquet's show Troi oi! at Galerie Quynh:

From 2002 to 2004

Created and published by Wonderful:
magazine-exhibition “5ememur” (5th wall), an exhibition space on paper.
Each trimester, around 5 artists were invited to create a work for the magazine around a new topic.

N10: “Laugh”, with Pascale Martine Tayou, Laurent Septier, Frederic Latherrade, Jean-Luc Desmond, Arnaud Ducasse, Bui Cong Khanh and Benoit Maire

Opening at FNAC (Bordeaux)

N9: “Heroes”, with Damien Mazieres, Laurent Perbos, Marc Vernier, Remi Marie, Arnaud Maguet, Francoise Quardon and Benoit Maire

Opening at Ofr bookshop (Bordeaux), Incorporation (Toulouse), Oxymore (Nantes) and ENSA (Bourges)

N8: Special “College Invisible”, with Seulgi Lee, Ciaddict.org, Laetitia Bourget, Erational, Julien Previeux, Beate Engl and Dr Brady

Opening at Ateliers Boisson (Marseille) and Art Obas cyber-cafe (Bordeaux)

N7: “I”, with Jean-Luc Verna, Inkorporation, Patrick Hospital, Sylvain Courtoux, Anne-Marie Pecheur, Julien Bouillon, Sandrine Llouquet

Opening at Inkorporation (Toulouse), Zoobizarre (Bordeaux), CapcMusee d’art contemporain (Bordeaux)

N6 : « Toujours etre ailleurs, nomadism », with Bertrand Peret, Sebastien Blanco, Pensee Nomade Chose Imprimee, Patrice Ferreira & Jr, Axel Huber, Alexander Raima, Thierry Davila and Guillaume Ollendorff

Opening at Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Villa Arson (Nice), Art Cade (Marseille), Incorporation (Toulouse), Ba-Bhar (Bordeaux), ENSA (Bourges), Zoogalerie (Nantes)

N5 : « Romantism », with Camille Fallet, Karin Pelte, Francoise Quardon and Pierre Giquel, Maitetxu Etcheverria, Karim Ghelloussi and Nicolas Bourriaud

Opening at Oxymore (Nantes), La Quincaillerie (Bordeaux)

N4 : « Terrorism », with Claus Sauer, Maroussia Rebecq, ¥E$

Opening at La Machine a lire bookshop (Bordeaux)

N3: Opening at Chez Chalana (Bordeaux)

N2: Opening at Generic Workspace (Bordeaux)

N1: Exhibition-workshop creation of 5ememur magazine at Halle des Chartrons (Bordeaux)

Publication of 10 issues of “5ememur” magazine.

Presented by Wonderful:
“Ce qui reste du ciel”, performance- conference for one actor by Benoit Maire at Galerie Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux, France

Direction of one month of workshop and exhibition with congolese artists in Pointe Noire, Republic of Congo.

Publication of the catalog “Wonderland Congo”

Creation and animation of a workshop stand for CapcMusee with painting, video, photography activities for children at Hangar 14 (Bordeaux)

Publication of the DVD: “Les aventures du mercredi”

Direction of one month of wall painting and drawing workshop at St Pons de Thomieres

Organized and curated by Wonderful, Frederic Bernier and Julien Celdran:
“ 3 days of art events in Bordeaux and 3 days in Nantes in diverse locations (apartments, museums, galleries, cinemas, shops, cafes, restaurants, night clubs, public space…) with Florent Larrieux, Joanna Vandenelsken, Hsia-Fei Chang, Cecile Nogues, Fabrice Cousin, Jean-Baptiste Bressy, Pierre Hourquet, Frederic Latherrade, Melanie Cessiecq, Damien Mazieres, Maroussia Rebecq, Christophe Renaud, Nicolas Milhe, Juan Aizpitarte, Patrice Gaillard, Claude, Aurelien Froment, Raphael Eskenasy, Clement Darasse, Damien Bourdaud, Alice Retorre, Christophe Liegey, Axel Rogier, Anne Wambergue, Dominique Leroy, Severine Hubard, Camille Fallet, Pascal Leroux, Frederic Bernier, Julien Celdran, Zoobizarre, Peravprod, Paradoxal, Bruit du frigo, Post-modeles, Wonderful.

Organised by Wonderful:
3 days art event in diverse appartments in Bordeaux.
With Ivan Bertoux, Fabrice Thomasseau, Jean-Joseph Renucci, Axel Huber, Sebastien Leguen, Derushage, Underskor, Sandrine Llouquet, Stephane Steiner, Jorg Schlick, Thomas Huber and Alexander Raima in residency