Altermodern

Concept

In his keynote speech to the 2005 Art Association of Australia & New Zealand Conference, Nicolas Bourriaud explained:

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:

1. The end of postmodernism
2. Cultural hybridisation
3. Travelling as a new way to produce forms
4. The expanding formats of art

References

References

1. "[AAANZ 2005]: Nicolas Bourriaud - Keynote".
2. [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. link. (9 August 2014)
3. [http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/tate-triennial-2009-prologue-2-exiles-tj-demos Tate triennial 2009 prologue]tate.org.uk {{Webarchive. link. (4 August 2014)
4. "Tate Triennial 2009 Prologue 3: John Smith - Hotel Diaries".