Nicholas Bourriaud: Altermodernism

Tate Triennial (2009)

Tate modern

Tate publishing



I highly recommend this book if You are interested in Altermodernism as a development of postmodernism, and what it means to universality and the development of art, as opposed  to  the doctrines of colonial west.

Nicholas Bourriaund who coined the term Altermodernism, curated The Tate Britain Tate Triennial in 2009. Altermodernism describes an insistent sensibility that has emerged in contemporary art in Britain in tandem with marked cultural and social change across the world. (Bourriaud, N. 2009) Conceptionally, Altermodernism moves beyond the paradigms of post modernism, “Despite valiant recent attempts to move "the postmodern critique forward" (Allan), to generalise it into a "theory of the contemporary" (Connor), or to pluralise it into the more descriptive postmodernisms (Altieri), the postmodern does indeed appear to be a twentieth-century phenomenon, that is, a thing of the past”. (Hutcheon, L. 2002) Altermodernism moves into a new epoch in which a narrative within representational satirical painting can belong. This personal wavelength conveys in its emanations, signs that are both heterogeneous (belonging to differing registers or cultural traditions) and heterochronic (borrowed from differed periods) (Bourriaud, N. 2009)