Who does this guy think he is,

coming to London and taking over the Tate Modern and claiming to know what is (the) what about post-post-modernism?! Hmph. I'm a little skeptical about the lack of mention of post-colonialism, that seems a little glaring, no? Nevertheless* I'll admit that it's a neat concept, a hopeful and potentially artistically fertile one. Here, take a look:

"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"



*Isn't nevertheless a neat word? It's one of the most German-word-like of English words. It's just three words stuck together! Nevertheless, it's one word. One great word.