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A group of artists – Wonders of Art

Wonders of Art, having had great success in producing large-scale musical theatrical performances and outdoor performances via special media, dedicates itself to the creation of original new media artworks. It commits itself to high quality artworks, providing clever exhibition strategies, professional integration and decent execution; its works have been very well-received and have established cross-border collaboration between international artists. Since the art group’s foundation in 2008, it has combined new media technology with art exhibition, allowing the artists’ demonstration of their wild imagination and further breaking the wall between art and its audience. Its 2010 show Window of the City designed for the Shanghai Expo garnered the Best Presentation award presented by EXHIBITOR Magazine. Wonders of Art is now focusing on fostering interactive theatre works, innovating brand-new art and technology , developing commercially potential art form, and showing the world Chinese people’s capability to create.

Wonders of Art International (WA)

Wonders of Art international is one of the most influential organizations in producing arts creations, and curation or presenting arts events in Asia.

Founder and artistic director Serina Chen, is a pioneer in propelling finest arts onto international stage, and creating rich and diverse multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural works. As the founder and artistic director of Taipei Arts Festival, World Music Festival Taiwan and International Dance Workshop Festival, which are festivals of great influence among numerous arts societies. Chen's vision and leadership have catalyzed the establishment and growth of performing arts industry.

Wonders of Art International makes exceptional achievement in producing multidisciplinary arts production. In 2002, The Feast of Han Xizai was created. This classic painting treasured by Palace Museum in Beijing had been made into a live music and dance theater. In 2007, it was performed at the plaza of Imperial Supremacy Hall in the forbidden City (the Palace Museum in Beijing), which was the first non-royal performing group over the past 500 years that had entered the Palace and made a large scale performance. Also in 2006, Wonders of Art created a fantastic popular Chinese Musical In Love with Carmen starred the best Asian pop star A-Mei in Taipei Arena. In 2007, another large-scale outdoor spectacular show The World Ship made a big blast in Kaohsiung New Year's eve celebration.

Commissioned by the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo , Wonders of Art International produced the only thematic show for the EXPO 2010 - Window of the City which set up a groundbreaking success and milestone for multimedia theaters and is a wowing theatre experience for every audience watching the show. Rated as the Best Presentation of World Expo Shanghai, Window of the City showcased over 500 shows during the Expo with almost 100% of audiences satisfaction, and unquestionably attracted the most media attention at the Expo.

Another significant multimedia theater project Fantasy Warp was created in 2011, which builds up an outstanding experience for audience in a new kind of immersive and interactive multimedia theater. Later on, in 2014, a fascinating children’s musical, Voyage Undersea , was created. This outstanding theater piece has utilized fascinating 3D animation, vibrant storyline, dance and acrobatics, and beautiful music together with costumed human puppets. In November 2017, the largest video building mapping show The First Seed: Memories of the Banyan Trees was created on the grand new arts center in Kaohsiung. Amazingly a story about a city was told by 3D animation and together with live performers.

Over look years of creative achievements of Wonders of Art. Its great success on the integration between arts and technology has become the true attraction in performing arts creations.

Significant Successful Cases

Significant Successful Cases:

Large-scale International Arts Festival Curation

Taipei Arts Festival
Taipei Arts Festival
Taiwan World Music Festival
Taiwan World Music Festival
Kaohsiung International Container Arts Festival
Kaohsiung International Container Arts Festival
Moon Festival, Presidential Hall
Moon Festival, Presidential Hall
Olympia Earth Games
Olympia Earth Games
Festival in the Square
Festival in the Square

Promote International Arts and Cultural Exchange

Curation and Promotion of Cross-disciplinary Performing Arts

Not a Love Story, 2001
Not a Love Story, 2001
Taipei Arts Festival,2002
Taipei Arts Festival,2002
@Dream, 2003
@Dream, 2003
Imaginative Kung Fu, 2004
Imaginative Kung Fu, 2004
In Love with Carmen, grand scale Chinese musical, 2006
In Love with Carmen, grand scale Chinese musical, 2006
The Feast of Han Xizai, Palace Museum in Beijing, 2007
The Feast of Han Xizai, Palace Museum in Beijing, 2007
The World Ship, New Year's Eve Celebration, 2007
The World Ship, New Year's Eve Celebration, 2007
Window of the City, 2010
Window of the City, 2010
Fantasy Warp, multimedia interactive theater, 2011
Fantasy Warp, multimedia interactive theater, 2011
3D Projection Mapping on Tainan City Hall, 2013
3D Projection Mapping on Tainan City Hall, 2013
3D Multimedia Musical Voyage Undersea, 2014
3D Multimedia Musical Voyage Undersea, 2014
The Fortune Teller, black comedy of digital age, 2015
The Fortune Teller, black comedy of digital age, 2015
at WeiWuYing National Culture and Art Center, 2017
at WeiWuYing National Culture and Art Center, 2017

International Program Presentations

Plan and Host Professional Theater Programs and Workshops

  • Organize the first Taiwan Dance Festival
  • Plan and host Put SARS inside Pandora's Box , an arts therapy project with Black Box Exercise
  • Organize the first World Theater Masters Academy , a musical performance and children's creative development course
  • Plan and organize Walk with the Arts, performing arts campus tours and lectures
  • Plan and host The Storytelling Project for Children in school

Cultural Planning and Study

Devoted to broaden the depth and width of performing arts ecology and cultural policy, Wonders of Art International continues to organize cultural activities and propel many culture and arts related planning and research projects. Through incorporating a variety of culture-related issues and emerging the consensus of the big cultural environment, Wonders of Art endeavors to create a more thorough and thriving environment for performing arts.

Significant Plan and Research:

  • Performing Arts and Technology Integration Development Strategy and Information Services Research Project
  • Research on the Development of Shanghai Performing Arts Market
  • Study of Video and Audio High-Tech Application in Coalescence with Performing Arts Industries
  • Creativity Walks in the World - Taiwan Creative and Cultural Industries Exchange Survey Tour, Cultural Survey in London and Denmark.
  • Digital Arts Creative Development Center Research Project.
  • Planning and Development project on Songshan Cultural Park and Huashan Creative Park

Videos

Wonders of Art
Memories of the Banyan Trees, 2017