Title: Biennials and Triennials How, Why and Who For?
Location: Tate Britain Manton Studio
Description: The recent boom in triennials and biennials has been noted by critics and artists alike. Lewis Biggs, Director of the Liverpool Biennial and former Director of Tate Liverpool, assesses how successful the format is in conveying themes and theories such as Altermodern, and whether Tate Britain is an appropriate home for an international art festival.
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Altermodern
Manifesto
POSTMODERNISM IS DEAD
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.
Nicolas Bourriaud
Altermodern – Tate Triennial 2009
at Tate Britain
4 February – 26 April 2009
Start Time: 13:00
Date: 2009-03-20
End Time: 14:00
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