CLUBBING

The Grand Palais Immersif invites the public to an unprecedented experience with CLUBBING, an immersive and participatory exhibition imagined by artist Pierre Giner, in collaboration with graphic design collective Trafik and electronic media Poptronics.

Dive into the heart of club culture, from the earliest underground nights to the most current trends.

More than just an exhibition, CLUBBING offers a collective and festive experience, a unique sensory journey - through sound, light and movement - as well as an immersion in the vibrant and living history of the clubs that have shaped the most avant-garde communities and invented the culture of recent decades.

The exhibition's curator, artist Pierre Giner, describes CLUBBING as "a shared, participatory and immersive experience, which not only celebrates the history of club cultures, places, music, atmospheres, but also becomes a living extension of them. An invitation to lose oneself in the night, its sounds and lights, the better to find oneself, to become a moment of this ephemeral total work that is night culture."







A SPECTACULAR AND INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE
Occupying 1,200 m2, the exhibition transforms the Grand Palais Immersif into a new-generation club, where history and technology merge to offer a unique sensory experience. Here, visitors are not just spectators: they become part of the party, exploring the richness of clubbing through a number of interactive areas.

WELCOME TO THE CLUBS!
As soon as they enter the exhibition, visitors are greeted by the illuminated sign and an iconic bouncer, and meet a host of virtual clubbers who instantly immerse them in the club atmosphere.

NIGHT HISTORY
Immerse yourself in the world of legendary clubs such as the Loft, Studio 54, the Hacienda, the Palace, the Bains Douches, the Pulp, the Trésor and the Berghain. As the exhibition unfolds, visitors explore these emblematic venues that have shaped and continue to write the history of clubbing, from New York to Paris, via Berlin, Tokyo and São Paulo, and discover their unique sonic imprint.

AVATAR STUDIO
Visitors are invited to create their own avatar, a double with all the rights, first and foremost that of making themselves beautiful to dance and go out in CLUBBING, dressed by stylist Maroussia Rebecq. The designer behind the brand Andrea Crews has revisited the styles of clubbers exclusively for the exhibition.

CLUB STORIES
Actors, observers and privileged guests of the night and the clubs, they tell their stories of the clubs for CLUBBING. With testimonials from artists, musicians and DJs Dave Haslam (Haçienda), Etienne de Crécy, Patrick Vidal, Azu Tiwaline, Seb 69DB (Spiral Tribe); mythical physio Valery B ; nightlife and music specialists Christophe Vix (founder of the Technoparade), Patrice Bardot (Tsugi journalist), Arnaud Idelon (author of Boum Boum, politiques du dancefloor), researchers Jérémie Kroubo-Dagnini and Marie Jauffret-Roustide, and photographer Karel Chladek...
 

"BERGHAINTRAINER" - VINZENZ AUBRY

Berghaintrainer is an interactive video experience that invites you to enter Berlin’s most exclusive club. In this virtual face-off encounter with the legendary bouncer, your presence, voice and attitude will be scrutinized.

Three decisive questions will determine your fate at night. The technology captures your movements via webcam and analyzes your speech to determine whether you deserve to enter this temple of Berlin nightlife.

Like a contemporary rite of passage, this digital artwork transforms the mythical rejection into a playful training ground. In this space between real and virtual, everyone can experience the intimidation of this famous queue.

METACLUBBEURS
Come and dance with your avatars to the sound of FG's historic mixes.

THE CLUBBERS PARADE
A gallery of nightlife styles: hip hop, disco, club kids, blitz kids, voguing or gabber...

THE DANCEFLOOR
A room in perpetual motion, combining the history of live audio video, live and recorded sound performances, and a giant ballet of clubber avatars.

ALL NIGHT DANCE
Set off with the playlist from the exhibition and the history of clubs. 200 tracks selected by Patrick Vidal, DJing pioneer and lead singer of the group Marie et les garçons.

RINSE CLUB
With the participation of  

Because you can’t tell the story of clubbing without mentioning those who built its margins. RINSE is a symbol of resistance, invention and transmission. His trajectory reflects a different kind of collective: through music, through listening, through mixing. In the exhibition, we’re devoting a dedicated room to exploring its archives and restoring the unique energy of its broadcasts.

Through this presence, we highlight clubbing that doesn’t just take place in party venues, but also on the airwaves, in studios, in teenage bedrooms and makeshift radio stations. RINSE is the club without walls – a sonic world where boundaries fade, and community is built through frequency.

UNIQUE ARTISTIC CREATIONS

“ESPECTRES” - PLAYMODES

“Espectres“ is a generative visual and musical installation. Driven by chance and probability, these audiovisual automata create infinite and constantly evolving spectrograms, instantly transformed into electronic sound through image sonification algorithms and additive synthesis. The installation allows you to hear exactly what you see by using pixels as a sound source.
 

“STROBOSCOPE” - BRUNO RIBEIRO

“Stroboscope” is a light installation designed by Bruno Ribeiro that plays with viewers’ perception through an intense and precise ballet

of volumetric lights. A tribute to raves and free parties that reached their peak in the 2000s, “Stroboscope” takes the form of a matrix of high-intensity projectors placed overhead, shaping a constantly evolving luminous space.

Here, music is embodied in a light choreography that gives sound frequencies an almost tangible materiality, visually propagating their energy throughout the space.
 

“RELEASE” - SMITH & LYALL

“Release” is an ode to the joy of free movement, expressed through improvised dance. For the first time, Smith & Lyall explored working “backwards”, using visuals to create music, rather than creating visuals for music.

This piece is the result of a collaboration with Ching Ying Chien, one of their long-time collaborators. James Richton (The Klaxons & Shock Machine) will compose the 80s electro-inspired clubland soundtrack.

WARNINGS 

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