Nicolas Bourriaud: "Altermodern is the cultural answer to what alter-globalisation is, a cluster of singular and local answers to globalisation."
"Nicolas Bourriaud,art theorist and co-founder of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, has coined the term "Altermodern" to describe how artists are responding to the globalised culture we live in.
Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009 at Tate Britain was the culmination of a year of events discussing this idea and has just closed."A new modernity is emerging, reconfigured to an age of globalisation – understood in its economic, political and cultural aspects: an altermodern culture.
Off Voice Fly Tip by Bob and Roberta Smith 2009
Courtesy the artist and Hales Gallery. Photo: Tate Photography
Altermodern Manifesto
A new modernity is emerging, reconfigured to an age of globalisation – understood in its economic, political and cultural aspects: an altermodern culture Increased communication, travel and migration are affecting the way we live.
Our daily lives consist of journeys in a chaotic and teeming universe.
Multiculturalism and identity is being overtaken by creolisation: Artists are now starting from a globalised state of culture.
This new universalism is based on translations, subtitling and generalised dubbing.
Today's art explores the bonds that text and image, time and space, weave between themselves.
Artists are responding to a new globalised perception. They traverse a cultural landscape saturated with signs and create new pathways between multiple formats of expression and communication.
The Tate Triennial 2009 at Tate Britain presents a collective discussion around this premise that postmodernism is coming to an end, and we are experiencing the emergence of a global altermodernity."
Also read: "Altermodern" in Wikipedia.
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I prefer digimodernism.
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