Title: Friends of the Divided Mind
Location: Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU
Description: 18 - 29 March 2009
Open daily 11am - 6pm
Admission free
Final year Curating Contemporary Art students organise and curate an exhibition and public events programme. The aim of the exhibition is to explore and debate what art institutions mean in contemporary society.

Date: 2009-03-18

Friends of the Divided Mind is an exhibition that addresses the organisations that support contemporary art. The show is divided into four projects that consider potentialities for the future of exhibition histories, artist-run spaces, performative and durational practices, and financially independent art spaces, initiated by a strong desire for alternatives. This is reflected in the partitioning of inquiries, working groups and resources, in support of a shared undertaking by the thirteen curators that in turn subverts traditions of consensual decision making. The results of this engaged and agonistic process as well as the individual projects will be considered in a related publication, which will be launched at RCA Show 2 on 13 June 2009

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.
See also:

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

Title: It’s not for reading. It’s for making
Location: 51–63 Ridley Road, London E8 2NP (http://www.formcontent.org/)
Description: A reflection on collecting and archiving with interventions by Luca Frei, Edgar Schmitz, Charlotte Moth, Guestroom, Raymond Taudin Chabot, Matteo Terzaghi & Marco Zürcher
12 February – 5 April 2009
Date: 2009-02-14

Title: Reflect Please at Nothing Works
Location: Shoreditch Town Hall
Description: Alexandre Bettler will present his recent project: Reflect Please at Nothing Works, curated by Michael Czerwinski and Amanprit Sandu from the Design Museum.

Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2008-09-18

Title: OKAY Studio - Under the Same Roof
Location: ARAM Gallery

Description: OKAY Studio is a collective of individual designers sharing a bit more then a workspace. Each has broken their own ground, with some also working for leading design studios while others work on consultancy projects. But they share the drive to generate self-initiated projects, produce work with their own clients and exhibit in galleries and museums internationally. This will be the first curated exhibition of the group.

Start Date: 2008-09-18

OKAY STUDIO
UNDER THE SAME ROOF

NEW WORK BY:
Shay Alkalay
Tomas Alonso
Jordi Canudas
Mathias Hahn
Peter Marigold
Yael Mer
Oscar Narud
Hiroko Shiratori
Jorre van Ast