Altermodern Explained by Nicolas Bourriaud

Nicolas Bourriaud previews his hypothesis that postmodernism is over and that a new type of modern - the altermodern - is emerging.
Read Bourriard's manifesto on Tate's website: www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-...

[@anthonyantonelliscom]

I love that youtube members are trying to lecture Bourriaud

[@NielsvanderSteen]

The rise of street art totally fits in the relational aesthetic theory. It's a language that was given birth to in our collective streets, a space we all share. A space that is being influenced by so many cultures which cannot be separated anymore from each other. Creolisation; changing by exchanging. Altermodern artists create to communicate, taking from a globalized world and reloading this back again through their art. Thanks to Nicolas Bourriaud for giving it a name we have a good discussion

[@PatrickFaith]

I enjoy the concept of exploring time, also i completely agree that this is a global art phase rather then localized.

[@TSTSendee]

part 2. People have to pay for the catalogue to read his full text on Altermodern, which completely works against the concept of accessibility and openness of artistic practice. The label 'Triennal' was rather big for the show as the hype about his new term 'Altermodern'. I don't see much need to define the current we are in, it is no more than failed attempt of ownership of something can't be possessed by anyone.

[@leetattoo1976]

Brilliant!

[@HamCubes]

Was that filmed in the break room of an industrial dry cleaner? _Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate_

[@GrayWatchman]

I'm encouraged by the thoughtful nature of most of the comments. I also disagree with the revisionist use of the term modern, as in Post-Modern, Altermodern etc. It is just another retread of Modern. No more Post... no more Neo... I tend to agree with the X-Post and Stuckist attitudes towards the current era.

[@marcelamariadelhuertonicol6256]

traducción al Español por favorrrr!! Gracias!

[@dextertanedo]

And the term now is creeping into the art academe...it did happen. I guess one can not feel the change but the word itself is just a term coined to define the new art period. One can not claim the word Contemporary as it is too general and may not be applicable to the art style defined now but years from now maybe just one of the bygone art styles before. So, for art history sake and it did define the sentiments of the time since the mid 90s, the emergence of new art methods, materials and style, Altermodernism, maybe the period we are now....for how long? we just have to wait.

[@batica81]

Why concentrate on history, and not on the future? It should provide for infinite inspiration, and help find the direction for that arrow of time.

[@3842l4]

He's someone who would be a better anthropologist than an art historian

[@slopydrunk]

@nielsvdsteen10 hahaha "the streets we all share" that is a cute remark.

[@TSTSendee]

part 3. Why we even need to cling onto the word 'modern'?. Allegedly, according to Nicolas 'we don't know what kind of period we are in'. All these are 'euro-centric' ideas and it looks like they have become even more 'euro-centric' now. Look at the artists he has included. London, London and London again. Isn't that ironic? Tate is in London, the artists are based in London. How much of a 'nomadism' is this? I thought the space, the distance, all these barriers are not longer obstacles?!

[@Thecitybeehives]

Will the 'altermodern' work? Postmodernism, IMO, lacked the correct application in many aspects. It did have very interesting relativist, subjectivist and 'DIY' artistic approaches which created output ranging from the ludicrous to the phenomenally witty, thought-provoking and progressive, but I see less and less art and more commercialism and shock-tactics. Will altermodern's anti-commercial aims be the artistic way forward? I'm still questioning myself.

[@ryanconrath]

didn't Jameson insist that postmodernism accounts more for a space, rather than a historical or chronological 'arrow' as he puts it? not quite sure what all this means. It SOUNDS pretty, but what about what it MEANS?

[@TSTSendee]

It puzzles me sometimes, when someone like Nicolas Bourriaud gets so carried away with ideas and realities we are already living and breathing in. It is as if, he has just discovered and asked few mainly London-based artists to create some works.

[@t7g6s8]

well if we don't know what we are in then we say something that we do know because we can not pull a word from nothing. i do agree with you, we need to go away from the word modern.

[@ladystellawords]

Modernity of today...we must reconcile with the needs of the all living things...think Joseph Beuys philosophy. 7000 OAKS project never been more #ALTERMODERN then NOW.

[@lislaskarin]

Funny to claim that we are past modernism and postmodernism, then to take up the very very modernist notion of exploration of the new (his new continent -- time). This is a thinker who has abandoned the acuity of thought in favour of flavour. If not aware of his own self-inclusion in that which he opposes, he does at least have an uncanny sense of the obvious.

[@sinanguler3]

Altermodern, sınırlarını bil altermodernn

[@NielsvanderSteen]

The rise of street art totally fits in the relational aesthetic theory. It's a language that was given birth to in our collective streets, a space we all share. A space that is being influenced by so many cultures which cannot be separated anymore from each other. Creolisation; changing by exchanging. Altermodern artists create to communicate, taking from a globalized world and reloading this back again through their art. Thanks to Nicolas Bourriaud for giving it a name we have a good discussion