VIVIEN RACAULT
mystery artart du mystère
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
+ Between plant and ghost - text, photography, installation, music Melbourne French Cultural Centre, from 11 March to 9 April 2010 - Melbourne, Australia
+ Between plant and ghost (prefiguration) - text, photography, music Sydney French Cultural Centre from 18 Frebruary to 4 March 2010 - Sydney, Australia
2008
+ Mysteries - text, photography, sound and musical artwork Reunion Island Department Artotheque, from the 21 June to 20 October 2008 - Saint Denis, Reunion Island, France
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
+ Mysteries - Obscura Gallery, from 11 July to 10 August - Melbourne, Australia
+ 2008/2009 acquisitions - Reunion Island Department Artotheque, from the 25 April to 25 December - Saint Denis, Reunion Island, France
2009
+ Racault, Ioannou, Wischer - Obscura Gallery, from 15 November to 30 December - Melbourne, Australia
+ 9 emerging photographers - Brunswick Street Gallery, from 31 July to 14 August - Melbourne, Australia
2008
+ Cross the bridge - Departmental Theaters gallery, from 23 August to 9 September - Saint Denis, Reunion Island, France
PUBLISHED WRITING & PUBLICATIONS BY THE ARTIST
current
+ Six o'clock in the evening - artists's book, in collaboration with poet Emmeline Payet-Coupama, Epsilon publishings.
This project has received a grant from the Reunion Island Council and the Reunion Island Department.
2008
+ Mysteries – 38 pages, 1000 exhibition catalogues, edited by the the Reunion Island Department Artotheque
PUBLISHED EXHIBITION MUSIC
2008
+ Mysteries – 7 titles, 1000 Cds, a co-production Reunion Island Department Artotheque / Vivien Racault
RESEARCH PAPERS & SEMINAR PRESENTATION
2010
+ From the emergence of a new species to the disappearance of the Human Being, Between plant and ghost exhibition manifesto
2008
+ Tell me what you see and the universe will tell me who you are Mysteries exhibition manifesto, catalogue edited by the the Reunion Island Department Artotheque - Saint Denis, Reunion Island, France
2004
+ The lost souls : the function of interactive fiction in digital intercultural world dissertation for the Master’s Degree in Multimedia Direction, in collaboration with Violaine Poron - Paris, France
2001
+ Life's journey and its symbolic geography in Voltaire's "Candide" and Samuel Johnson's "Rasselas" dissertation for the Bachelor’s Degree in Comparative Literature - Paris, France
COLLECTIONS
Love, Sacrifice, Sublime and The Body are in the Reunion Island Department Artotheque's permanent collection.
EDUCATION
2004
+ Master’s Degree in Multimedia Direction, 1st class Honours - University of Paris 8, Paris, France
The lost souls, first cultural video game devoted to the history of Reunion Island (the significant expressions of insular fancy in the post-proslavery society from 1848 to 1945, considered through the criminal affair of the «blood drinkers of Saint-Pierre»), in collaboration with Violaine Poron.
2003
+ Bachelor’s Degree in Multimedia technics, 1st class Honours - University of Paris 8, Paris, France
2001
+ Bachelor’s Degree in Comparative Literature (Symbolic geography in French and English literatures of the XVIIIth century), 1st class Honours - University of Paris 4 – Sorbonne, Paris, France
2000
+ 3 years university degree in Modern French arts, 3 years university degree in English University of Paris 4 – Sorbonne, Paris, France
1999
+ Eligibility to sit the oral part of the E.N.S. Lyon entry exam (top Humanities school in France). My eligibility and my results in this exam gave me an equivalent rating of a two-year university degree in Philosophy, History, French literature and English - Lakanal Preparatory Course School, Paris, France
1996
+ French high school diploma, specialised in Literature and Arts - Leconte de Lisle High School, Reunion Island, France