Anna Calvi performs live in the galleries of Tate Britain, inspired by her favourite painting by Peter Doig in the Tate collection 

O PÓS-MODERNISMO MORREU,
VIVA A ALTERMODERNIDADE
(Vanessa Rato/Ípsilon)



"Uma parte do debate tem raízes antigas e a sua arqueologia envolve gigantes - Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Baudelaire, Bataille, Lyotard, Foucault, Baudrillard, Derrida, Lipovetsky... -, a outra parte é praticamente de ontem e, para já, envolve um único homem: Nicolas Bourriaud, de 44 anos, fundador e ex-director do influente Palais de Tokyo, de Paris, hoje curador de arte contemporânea desse "bulldozer" museológico conhecido como Tate, em Londres. O que é a modernidade? Modernos ou pós-modernos, quem somos? Depois de várias vidas aos gritos uns com os outros por causa de questões assim, ei-lo, Bourriaud, a dizer-nos que podemos pegar nesses pontos de interrogação e fazer deles o que bem entendermos, já que, chegados a 2009, essa parte da História está arrumada, vencida por "knock-out" por um só evento: a actual crise económica internacional. Segundo ele, esse singular evento ligado ao colapso do sistema financeiro a partir da falência do banco de investimento norte-americano Lehman Brothers, em Setembro do ano passado, mudou tudo, mudou, inclusivamente, o que somos. Nem modernos nem pós-modernos. Submersa em nova crise, no final da primeira década do século XXI a humanidade viu nascer uma outra modernidade: a altermodernidade, a primeira era cultural do mundo globalizado".

(texto integral aqui; fazer a ponte para o label altermodernism)

(2009)

ALTERMODERN WEEK 2: WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT, NICOLAS?



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

(2009)

STREET ART - Tate Gallery
23 May – 25 August 2008


Os Gémeos

In the first major public museum display of street art in London, an awesome line-up of acclaimed street artists will create gigantic new art works on the external walls of Tate Modern overlooking the Thames.

An eclectic group of artists, who have worked in both street and gallery environments, are showing work: Blu from Bologna, Italy; the artist collective Faile from New York, USA; JR from Paris, France; Nunca and Os Gemeos, both from Sao Paulo, Brazil and Sixeart from Barcelona, Spain. This is the first time work has been commissioned for the building’s iconic external wall.


Faile

Street Art at Tate Modern brings to the fore an important aspect of current art practice.

You can take part in an urban trail to discover street art near Tate Modern on the Street Art Walking Tour – pick up a copy when you visit.

Street Art at Tate Modern opens at the same time as Tate Modern’s four day festival of art and performance, UBS Openings: The Long Weekend on 23 May

(2008)