Tate Britain has a new exhibition for the Tate Triennial called “Altermodern”. It declares that “postmodernism is coming to an end, and we are experiencing the emergence of a global altermodernity”. It’s on from February 3rd to April 26th in London.
The creation of a manifesto and a respected international cultural institution legitimizing and defining this “new” culture may shift the way we think about the process of creating, art, connecting with others and our cultural identities.
Here’s their manifesto:
*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.
Check out the cartoon that explains what “Altermodern” is.
