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The bulk of The Indochina Project was focused on the website www.theindochinaproject.com. Participants were asked one simple question ‘What does Indochina mean to you?’ and encouraged to submit their answer in the most creative way possible. Over the course of the project, the submissions were added to the website, gradually building to create a crowdsourced online artwork. The culmination of the project was a real-world exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Shea led the team at Riverorchid that produced the project. We transformed a derelict motorbike parking lot in downtown HCMC into a one day only exhibition, unlike anything the city had seen before. Throughout the show, an international line up of artists; Rah Akaishi, Celeste Byers, Peap Tarr, Lisa Mam, Liar Ben, Peepshow, Jordan Howard and Amanda Bloom entertained the crowds with live painting and performances, alongside a wall of screens displaying all of the works from the website. Each work was displayed with a QR code allowing people to quickly jump to that page on the website from their smartphone where they were able to comment on and share it.