Ex-TRACTS

(second edition)

English rave flyers from the 1990's are witnesses to an iconic phenomenon in electronic music culture. I have taken 99 flyers from my personal collection. The idea is to analyse in a catalogue each reframed element: photographs, illustrations, logos, symbols, maps and typography. The opening of this edition took place on the Internet and offered viewers the opportunity to experience a virtual evening in which they could listen to the music of the DJs featured on the selected flyers. The common experience of this hybrid project tends to give new life to these flyers, while taking into account the time in which we look at them in order to ask ourselves what is our relationship to these printed archives in the age of social networks.