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This presentation is intended to play with Nicholas Bourriaud's invitation to consider the idea that 'postmodernism is dead'. In order to maintain something of the playfulness of the concept of the altermodern, while recapping Modernism and postmodernism, the presentation invents key characters and explores their ideas and motivations. Here, the Modernist, postmodernist and altermodernist are given two creative tasks: 1) Do something creative with a cardboard box, 2) Make a photo.
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Modernism and After (Vis Com) Part II
Lecture 1: Alternatives and Possibilities
“POSTMODERNISM IS DEAD”From the Altermodern Manifesto (Baurriaud 2009)
Michael Jackson (1958-2009)
Patrick Swayze (1952- 2009)
Pomo
Postmodernism(19?? – 2009)
**Simula-cra-choo!** Bless you POMO’
Postmodernism was pronounced dead this morning after having snorted whopping amounts of cocaine. Found naked, cold and shivering in a hotel lobby
Nicholas Bourriaud
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Modernist
postmodernist
altermodernist?
Do something creative with a cardboard box!
TASK 1
Make a photograph
TASK 2
Kasimir Malevich (1918) White on White
Constantin Brancusi (1909-1911) Sleeping Muse
Donald Judd (1966) Untitled. Stainless Steal and Yellow PlexiGlass
Andy Warhol (1964) Brillo Box
Mary Miss (1978) Perimeters/ Pavillions/ Decoys
Santiago Sierra (2000) Six People who Are Not Allowed to be Paid for Sitting in Cardboard Boxes
Walead Beshty Installation of FedEx® large Kraft boxes ©2005 FedEx 330508, International Priority, Los Angeles-Tijuana, Tijuana-Los Angeles, Los Angeles-London, October 28, 2008- January 16, 2009 2008-ongoing
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Lazlo Maholy-Nagy (1926) Photogram
El Lissitzky (1924) The Constructor
Richard Prince (1980-4) Untitled Cowboy
Barbara Kruger Who’s the Fairest of them All
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Walead Beshty (2007) Transparency (Negative)
Darren Almond (2008) Fullmoon. China
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Modernist
postmodernist
altermodernist?
Report Card - Modernist
Report Card - Modernist
• Concerned with distinct art forms.
• Seeking originality within their work.
• Believe in Progress.
Report Card - postmodernist
Report Card - postmodernist
• Concerned with the coming together of art and popular culture.
• Always questioning originality (through appropriatation).
• Sceptical about progress/ loosing a sense of linear history.
Report Card - altermodernist
• Interested in movements of people and things, journeys.
• Less concerned with ‘origins’, more concerned with how things are changing.
• Interested in how different spaces and times interact.
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Charles Avery (2008) Untitled [Two Dilettantes]
Lali Chetwynd [aka Spartacus Chetwynd] (2004) An Evening with Jabba the Hut.
Marcus Coates (2008) Plover’s Wing
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Modernist
postmodernist
altermodernist?
Tell a story
TASK 3?
Make a film
TASK 3?
Decorate the fire place
TASK 3?
References
• Bourriaud, N. (2009) Altermodern: Tate Triennial. London, Tate Publishing.
• Charlesworth, J.J (2009) Altermodern Tate Triennial: 2009. In Art Review, no 31, April. Pp. 112-3.
• Collings, M (2009) Getting to the Heart of God’s Bottom. In Modern Painters, v21 no 4, May. Pp. 18-20.
• Hunt, A (2009) New Journeys in a Teaming Universe. In Tate Etc. no 15, spring. Pp. 70-3.
• Prince, M (2009) Tate Triennial, Tate Britain. In Art in America, no 165,May. P. 95
• Williams, E (2009) Altermodern: Tate Triennial. In Flash Art, 42 May/June. Pp.81-2.
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