ALTERMODERN WEEK 1: A NEW CULTURAL ERA
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DAY ONE: INTRODUCTION, A NEW CULTURAL ERA
DAY TWO: DEFINITIONS OF THE ALTERMODERN (CURATORS AND THE PRESS)
DAY THREE: CONDEMNATION OF THE ENTERPRISE IN THE UK PRESS
DAY FOUR: SUGGESTED REASONS FOR THIS HOSTILITY, COLLECTED FROM SPECIALIST ART PRESS
DAY FIVE: MATERIALS ON ARTISTS AND WORKS ALREADY BEING DESCRIBED AS ALTERMODERN

"What is the interesting energy within the idea of the Altermodern? Well, first of all, there's a need for a new cultural era now. We're at an early point in a new century. One hundred years ago exactly, the cultural idea that came to be known as Modernism was starting to gel. Now, sure, it's possible that the era we've been in for the last fifty years or so - which Charles Jencks, from the late 1970s onwards, influenced others to call Postmodernism - could just hang around forever. From inside its palace of mirrors I've often wondered how on earth we could escape from its mechanisms: irony, quotation, the collapse of high and low, here and there, now and then, art and commerce. Postmodernism was so slippery, so able to glom on new styles from any era or any culture and make them part of itself, so "right" for our age of global consumerism, that it seemed to me that we'd need Islamic revolution, or communist revolution, to break its grip" (post integral aqui)

(2009)