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
In his keynote speech to the 2005 Art Association of Australia & New Zealand Conference, Nicolas Bourriaud explained:{{cite web |url=http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/aaanz05/abstracts/nicolas_bourriaud |title= [AAANZ 2005]: Nicolas Bourriaud - Keynote|website=www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723130718/http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/aaanz05/abstracts/nicolas_bourriaud |archive-date=July 23, 2008}}
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
=Tate Britain 2009=
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:[http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/tate-triennial-2009-prologue-1-okwui-enwezor-specious-modernity-speculations Tate triennial 2009 prologue]tate.org.uk {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809091923/http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/tate-triennial-2009-prologue-1-okwui-enwezor-specious-modernity-speculations |date=9 August 2014 }}[http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/tate-triennial-2009-prologue-2-exiles-tj-demos Tate triennial 2009 prologue]tate.org.uk {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140804035233/http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/tate-triennial-2009-prologue-2-exiles-tj-demos |date=4 August 2014 }}{{cite web | url=http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/audio/tate-triennial-2009-prologue-3-john-smith-hotel-diaries | title=Tate Triennial 2009 Prologue 3: John Smith - Hotel Diaries }}
- The end of postmodernism
- Cultural hybridisation
- Travelling as a new way to produce forms{{Clarify|date=February 2009}}
- The expanding formats of art
References
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External links
- [https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/feb/08/altermodern-tate-britain-triennial-2009 Guardian.co.uk]
- [http://www2.tate.org.uk/altermodern/explore.shtm Tate.org.uk]
- [http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/altermodern/ Tate Website: Altermodern]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090609113925/http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2009-03-17/altermodern-a-conversation-with-nicolas-bourriaud Interview with Nicolas Bourriaud]
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Category:Contemporary art exhibitions