Global Tekno

The exhibition Global Tekno is Henri Maurel’s idea to defend the electronic music movement and culture. 
Marie-Claude Beaud, director of the American Center, was the first director of an art center to host an electronic music event in France.

Global Tekno 1995, photos of DJ’S on a wall at the American Center.

Photos : Olivier Degorce.

View of the photos of Gauthier G (foreground) in a “moomoot” style by Pedro Winter.

Photos : all right reserved

FÊTE DE LA MUSIQUE / MUSIC DAY IN BERCY GARDENS IN FRONT OF THE AMERICAN CENTER

11 hours of mixes by 17 DJs were broadcasted on the air from 12 to noon. The radio station made a “disco to techno” selection of DJs as L’Aquarium, A Deep Groove, Patrick Vidal, DJ Rork, Junglist Possee, Daft Punk, Manu le Malin…

 A Deep Groove hosted the midday show with Alex From Tokyo, DJ Gregory and DJ Deep (mixing). DJ Cam shows its label t-shirt, Streetjazz. A Deep Groove hosted the midday show which made them known. 

FÊTE DE LA MUSIQUE / MUSIC DAY IN BERCY GARDENS IN FRONT OF THE AMERICAN CENTER

Music Day, June 21, 1995, Global Tekno, American Center, Paris.

Photos : all right reserved.

Front of the booklet for the exhibition Global Tekno at the Passage de Retz created 
by M / M Paris (Mathias Augustiniak & Michaël Amzalag). 1st prize at the 1997 Chaumont festival. © Global Tekno 1996.

Photo of the video recording produced by Pierre Huyghes during Global Tekno 2 at the Passage of Retz © Global Tekno 1996.

The second edition of Global Tekno took place in a private art center in Le Marais, the oldest part of Paris. The selection was more contemporary arts with pieces selected by Natacha Carron. A fashion room was operated by Fabrice Leonard, fashion contributor of the station. 

35 artist’s works were shown. For the first time, The Designers Republic, the awarded Warp Records and Wipe Out’s designers.

View of one of the rooms with installation of Lucy Orta where Christophe Vix explained the exhibition to a TV. On the right side, Michael Amzalag from M/M Paris.

The station co-produced, with this emblematic institution of the East of Paris, a two day festival with an exposition co-produced by the ministry of Culture. This show was the first official exhibition by the French State.

12 000 people went to dance to the music spinned by Daft Punk, Aphex Twin, Kevin Saunderson, Carl Craig, Derrick May, Plaid, Luke Vibert, and many more, and a room for the magic team of the station. The event gathered 12000.

Several artist’s works were shown in different spaces of the Grande Halle as Jonas, Maria Schul, Bernard Joisten, Henrik Plenge Jacobsen, Serge Comte, Elmgreen & Dragset ...

... Jessica Bronson, Clavadetscher & Schumache, Sidney Stucki and Superflex presented by the French Ministry of Culture, Caroline Hayeur for her photos of the canadian rave scene ...

Designed by Reflex Design

Jacques Chirac, former French president, had chosen to celebrate the start of the Millennium with several events, including a gigantic exhibition in Avignon. The radio had Le Transfo, a former electrical factory from the 1930s, with a surface of 300m2.

As in 1996, Global Tekno produced an exhibition accompanied by satellite events, such as the concert by Laurent Garnier and evenings with electronic players from the South. For three months, this edition attracted nearly 30,000 visitors.

Global Tekno booklet 2000, La Beauté, Mission 2000 en Avignon. Design by Stéphane Delgado. Photo Michael Amzalag.

La Biosphère Numérique ad by Saas Fee, a german art collective, who made the main installation of the exhibition.

The full team of the collective Saas Fee, led by Monica Friebe and Alex Oppermann

Global Tekno party at Le Privé, the biggest club in the area, Henri Maurel in the middle of the The Micronauts, Christophe Monier & Georges Issakidis.
Photos : all right reserved.

Zeus was invited to invade the city of Avignon and made a map of his works.

Space Invader by Zeus in the Clos des Trams, around the Transfo.