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COSMODROME WITH JAY-JAY JOHANSON, 2001 Cosmodrome is a “spectacle environnement,” a dark room. A comprehensive environment like a “son-et-lumière”, with music especially composed by Jay-Jay Johanson, an experience of audio and visual sequences, lasting 9 minutes. “It is also a look back at panoramas or those large-scale environments designed to generate sensations, with the idea of going towards not the object-work but the sensationwork.” (Extract: Exhibition Brochure, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster 1887–2058, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2015) Cosmodrome, 2001 Cosmodrome is an immersive light and sound installation staged in a darkened, enclosed room. A 9-minute program of LED light sequences, narration and instrumentation surrounds the viewer. The floor is covered in a layer of black sand. Exhibition view, Expodrome, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2007 (DGF 152) 34