VISIV

This was the first edition of VISIV “The Future Is Now”, and nothing would ever be quite the same again

On March 19, 2022, something historic happened at Plenitude Arena. For the very first time since its opening, Europe’s largest indoor venue transformed into a giant dancefloor, welcoming more than 7,000 techno fans for a 12-hour marathon night running from 8pm to 8am.

The day techno took over the Arena

Programming techno in Europe’s largest indoor venue: that was the bold idea at the heart of the VISIV project. For their debut, the Parisian collective went all in: Plenitude Arena, its 55,543 square metres, its monumental acoustics, its cathedral-like atmosphere. VISIV is a futurist, avant-garde project that plays the originality card, integrating the digital dimension more deeply and choosing grand, never-before-explored venues for techno events.

Choosing Plenitude Arena for this first edition was a statement, almost a manifesto. A message sent to the entire scene: techno deserves the biggest stages, the biggest spaces, the biggest ambitions. And Plenitude Arena, with its international reputation and its ability to host the world’s greatest acts, was the only setting worthy of the VISIV vision.

1,400 sq m of projections, one guiding principle : a total immersion

The production for this night matched the scale of the project entirely. A staggering 1,400 square metres of projection surface covered the enormous screen, powered by 48 projectors. 3D animations ran throughout the evening across a giant 1,800 sq m screen.

This oversized visual and lighting show “cut through and mapped the crowd”. The night’s beats merged into a continuous flow of images, shapes and lights that enveloped every corner of Plenitude Arena, creating a total communion between sound and visual, between physical space and an entirely constructed universe.

And VISIV pushed the concept even further with its own metaverse: each artist had created their own avatar with a distinct visual world, for a real-time virtual show running alongside the live performance. The audience felt immersed in a parallel, virtual universe through the VISIV metaverse and the light show playing out across the screens. The evening’s visual identity was entrusted to studio Désillusion, with vjing handled by Fémur, two signatures that helped forge the unique aesthetic of a night now firmly embedded in memory.

A legendary lineup for 12 hours of sonic travel

Twelve hours of uninterrupted music. Plenitude Arena vibrated without pause thanks to a lineup built as a declaration of faith in the most demanding techno. German techno legends Ben Klock, Marcel Dettmann, DVS1 and Helena Hauff were all present, alongside British artist Blawan, Parisian acts Bambounou, Robin and Koboyo, and Axel Picodot, the rising face of French techno.

The artists on the bill for this memorable night at Plenitude Arena:

• Ben Klock b2b Marcel Dettmann, the two Berghain icons reunited for a back-to-back of the highest order
• DVS1 b2b Rodhad, a confrontation between two hypnotic visions of techno
• Blawan b2b Helena Hauff, two radical personalities, one explosive energy
• Dasha Rush Live, a live performance blending hardware and experimental electronics
• Bambounou, the Parisian polymath moving between bass music and adventurous techno
• Axel Picodot, the next generation of French techno, confident and fully formed
• Robin b2b Koboyo, the local duo who kept hands in the air until dawn

VISIV : the techno ambition that pushes walls back

VISIV was never built as an ordinary collective. The project’s aim is to deliver unprecedented events in venues the techno scene has never explored before, accessible events united by a shared futurist theme. From its very first edition, the Parisian collective made its ambitions clear: to free techno from its constraints, open it to new audiences, and take it somewhere no one had taken it before.

Plenitude Arena was precisely that place. For the first time since its opening, it became a techno dancefloor, welcoming more than 7,000 fans. VISIV proved that techno could fill the biggest rooms, not by betraying its DNA, but by magnifying it on a grand scale.

A night that will remain etched in Plenitude Arena’s history

Beyond introducing a new collective to an audience that often sees techno as a niche world, this was a genuinely high-quality show that left a lasting impression on every single person present. On March 19, 2022, Plenitude Arena was no longer just a concert venue : for one extraordinary night, it became the centre of the techno world.

12 hours of music elevated by a unique light show in an immense space: that is what VISIV “The Future Is Now” gave to everyone who had placed their bet on being there. A founding night, one that proved Plenitude Arena can be as much a temple for the great stars of pop as it is a home for the architects of the dancefloor. Techno had found its cathedral. And that cathedral was Plenitude Arena.