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Days after setting up my sound/light installation at the Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts, I booked a ticket to Chiang Mai to meet up with artists Chaw Ei Thein and Sutthirat Som Supaparinya. Som would fly to Phnom Penh the next day to conduct her Moving Images workshop at Metahouse. Chaw Ei and I would spend the next days visiting the night markets and drinking a lot of coffee (read: no Starbucks in Vietnam).

Can there be any more of an appropriate space? Named just for me?

The Land Foundation arts organization, based in Chiang Mai. Closed. Dammit!

Chaw Ei and Som at the Land Foundation

Mao can sell anything

After finding the Land Foundation closed, ice cream was in order. Chaw Ei and Som at iBerry.

Chaw Ei at Starbucks. One of many times.

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AliceIn is the proposal of Wonderful District for the exhibition Le mois de l'image in October 2007 in Ho Chi Minh City. Although there will be one artist intervention per day, AliceIn will be conceived as an autonomous work that can stand alone.

Situated at the intersection of varying themes researched by the the collective's artists - including architectural hybrids, cohabitation of nature and new technologies, and the idea of nomadism - the organic structure will be at the same time sculptural and functional, using both high and low-tech materials. These characteristics will be accentuate a playful contrast between interior and exterior. AliceIn was designed by Olivier Llouquet and Tam Vo Phi. Artist participants were Richard Streitmatter-Tran, Nguyen Nhu Huy, Robert Cianchi, Betrand Peret and Sandrine Llouquet.

Constructing the AliceIn bamboo frame. HCMC Fine Arts University

Interior of AliceIn installation at Galerie Quynh.

* Images Credits: R. Streitmatter-Tran, Tuyet T. Nguyen

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