THE ART PACK MEETS « MÖDERN YOUNG PEOPLE »
Post Punk, Cold Wave and Novö Culture in
France
1978 -1983
A project envisaged and curated by Jean-François Sanz (head of cultural
projects agnès b.)
Between the late 70s and mid-80s in France, a prolific and
chaotic music scene that combined the energy of rock-n-roll, punk nihilism and
electronic experimentation.
A kind of hope and frenzied vitality could also be detected during these
years. A breed
of modernist utopia, which was sometimes wilfully ironic, fed them both.
A whole segment of, they were nonetheless resistant to the post-Hippie utopias
of the previous generation. In search of an identity, they recognised
themselves in the dark lyrics, the
cold synthetic music and the laid-back attitude of the new groups
hatching all over the country, as much in the provinces as in Paris.
With the benefit of thirty years’ hindsight, the “Mödern Young People”
project reactivates this post-punk/novo diskö/French new & cold wave scene,
through an exhibition, a book, an audio compilation, and a documentary film.
One of the project’s ambitions is to highlight a cross-section of the specific
creative diversity of this scene. It does so by engaging with the music
produced by this scene, but also with the aesthetics and the attitudes.
The Art Pack Thanks: Agnès b., Jean-François Sanz, Marie Schneier, Annie
Maurette, Yann Le Marec, Gilles Le Guen, Les éditions Naïve (Laurence Patrice
et Corinne Stenneler), Maripol, Patrick Vidal, Pierre René-Worms, Dominique
Fury, Patrick Eudeline, Claude Arto, Gilles Riberolles, Laurent Fétis, J-B
Guillot & Born Bad Records,
Directed & Produced by The Art Pack:
- Vincent Tajan
- Victor Lech
- Pierre Zandrowicz
- Book and audio cd compilation produced by agnès b. / Naïve.
- Vinyl compilation produced by Born Bad Records.
- Documentary directed by Emmanuel Bovet and Jean-François Sanz,
produced by Love
Streams / agnès b.
www.theartpack.fr
www.agnesb.com
www.myspace.com/deseunesgensmodernes
www.naive.fr