"Postmodernism is dead! Altermodern Live" (Tate Triennial 2009) "Postmodernism is dead! Long live Altermodern! "So it seems to say Nicolas Bourriaud, one of today's most respected curators, founder of the Palais de Tokyo (Paris) and author of the famous book "Relational Aesthetics". "Altermodern" is a term coined by French theorist, suggests that the end of postmodernism to make room for an alternative form of modernism, where the artist appears in a global, borderless able to suggest new discourses. According Bourriaud, the new art must fight the stigma of art and established commercial spirit that accompanied the last decades, facing the territory of the arts as an archipelago where the difference should be assumed, although the artistic practice always refers to a logic interligaçãoe sharing a common ideological heritage. The first test of the materialization of these ideas is traced to the Triennial Tate Britain in London until next April 26 - an exhibition curated by the Bourriaud which encompasses a group of artists from various parts of the globe and different mediums. The speech is ambitious and there say that this is only three-year targets Bourriaud, which will be more interested in promoting their theory than to promote the artists. The controversy follows within moments and will still leave much ink. Who can give a jump there and tell how it went. Here's the manifesto:
Altermodern
MANIFESTO
Postmodernism IS DEAD
A new modernity is emerging , reconfigured to an age of globalization - 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.
Nicolas Bourriaud
Altermodern – Tate Triennial 2009
at Tate Britain
4 February – 26 April 2009
"Line of Control", Subodh Gupta
