Altermodern

<h2 id="concept">Concept</h2>
<p>In his keynote speech to the 2005 Art Association of Australia & New Zealand Conference, Nicolas Bourriaud explained:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a>
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<p>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.
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<p>Altermodern can essentially be read as an artist working in a <a href="/facts/Hypermodernity/mmpgMDU1">hypermodern</a> world or with supermodern ideas or themes.
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<h2 id="exhibitions">Exhibitions</h2>
<h3>Tate Britain 2009</h3>
<p>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:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a>
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<ol><li>The end of <a href="/facts/Postmodernism/aBgbw8QJ">postmodernism</a></li>
<li>Cultural hybridisation</li>
<li>Travelling as a new way to produce forms</li>
<li>The expanding formats of art</li></ol>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/feb/08/altermodern-tate-britain-triennial-2009">Guardian.co.uk</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www2.tate.org.uk/altermodern/explore.shtm">Tate.org.uk</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/altermodern/">Tate Website: Altermodern</a></li>
<li><a href="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</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"[AAANZ 2005]: Nicolas Bourriaud - Keynote". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Archived from the original on 23 July 2008. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080723130718/http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/aaanz05/abstracts/nicolas_bourriaud" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20080723130718/http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/aaanz05/abstracts/nicolas_bourriaud</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Tate triennial 2009 prologuetate.org.uk Archived 9 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/tate-triennial-2009-prologue-1-okwui-enwezor-specious-modernity-speculations" target="_blank">http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/tate-triennial-2009-prologue-1-okwui-enwezor-specious-modernity-speculations</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Tate triennial 2009 prologuetate.org.uk Archived 4 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/tate-triennial-2009-prologue-2-exiles-tj-demos" target="_blank">http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/tate-triennial-2009-prologue-2-exiles-tj-demos</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>"Tate Triennial 2009 Prologue 3: John Smith - Hotel Diaries". <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/audio/tate-triennial-2009-prologue-3-john-smith-hotel-diaries" target="_blank">http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/audio/tate-triennial-2009-prologue-3-john-smith-hotel-diaries</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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