The Design Museum – Electronic: From Kraftwerk to the Chemical Brothers
We worked closely with the Design Museum on their 2020 blockbuster exhibition Electronic, adapting and reshaping the original Paris ‘Electro’ exhibition designed by 1024 Architecture.
We worked intensively with the museum’s curators to incorporate new content, shifting the focus of the exhibition on to UK artists like Chemical Brothers, Underworld and Aphex Twin and towards the design aspects of the electronic music sub-culture – the graphics of posters, album covers and live AV and the influence of clubbing on fashion, performance and spatial design.
We planned the exhibition to take visitors through a series of spatial experiences, beginning with an in-depth historical overview and climaxing with a fully immersive experience of a Chemical Brothers show. This allows the exhibition to achieve a unique balance – of being both a rigorous museum exhibition and a loud, dark, intense experience, the closest thing to clubbing in the year of Covid and true to the spirit of the music sub-cultures it explores.
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Curators: Gemma Curtain & Maria McLintock
Original concept & exhibition design: 1024 Architecture
Graphic Design: Agnés Dahan Studio
Lighting: Jono Kenyon at Beam
AV: ADi
Fabrication: Factory Settings
Photography: Felix Speller & Claire Healy
Year: 2020