Altermodern
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Altermodern, a blend word defined by Nicolas Bourriaud, is an attempt at contextualizing art made in today's global context as a reaction against standardisation and commercialism. It is also the title of the Tate Britain's fourth Triennial exhibition curated by Bourriaud.
Concept
[edit]In his keynote speech to the 2005 Art Association of Australia & New Zealand Conference, Nicolas Bourriaud explained:[1]
Artists are looking for a new modernity that would be based on translation: What matters today is to translate the cultural values of cultural groups and to connect them to the world network. This “reloading process” of modernism according to the twenty-first-century issues could be called altermodernism, a movement connected to the creolisation of cultures and the fight for autonomy, but also the possibility of producing singularities in a more and more standardized world.
Altermodern can essentially be read as an artist working in a hypermodern world or with supermodern ideas or themes.
Exhibitions
[edit]Tate Britain 2009
[edit]The Tate exhibition includes a series of four one-day events (called "Prologues"), aiming to "introduce and provoke debate" around the Triennial's themes. Each Prologue includes lectures, performances, film and a manifesto text and attempts to define what the curator sees as the four main facets of Altermodern:[2][3][4]
- The end of postmodernism
- Cultural hybridisation
- Travelling as a new way to produce forms[clarification needed]
- The expanding formats of art
References
[edit]- ^ "[AAANZ 2005]: Nicolas Bourriaud - Keynote". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Archived from the original on 23 July 2008.
- ^ Tate triennial 2009 prologuetate.org.uk Archived 9 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Tate triennial 2009 prologuetate.org.uk Archived 4 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Tate Triennial 2009 Prologue 3: John Smith - Hotel Diaries".
