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"I think the gap-tooth beauty trend is another example of the evolution of beauty. What it is saying is, you no longer need to be a perfect blond with blue eyes to grab the cover of a fashion magazine. Maybe it comes down to the fact that, these days, anyone can have rows of Chiclet teeth, thanks to caps and overly white veneers. The commonality of them makes a perfect smile seem so last week."
Charles Avery | Aleph Null Head and Installation of Drawings | Altermodern Exhibit @ Tate Triennial 2009
I've been puttering around with my post-pomo/post-millennium worldview for a while, without finding any of the new art movement intellectualisms (supermodern, hypermodern, remodern...) particularly sincere or satisfying. I heard of the Altermodern a while ago when the British art gallery Tate was putting on its 2009 Triennial, but when I recently saw the term on the cover of Adbusters, I became doubly suspicious of its legitimacy. To my surprise, despite Adbusters' poor rendering of its facets, Bourriaud's idea is far more intelligent, mutable, practical, and revolutionary than I thought. Centering on a rejection of commercialism, this could be a very potent vehicle for social change, if its somewhat neoist approach to opposition and difference is maintained rather than subsumed into the homogenous soup of globalization. I don't usually link to my other blog, but I wrote an open letter on my thoughts here. Check it out and let's start a revolution. Seriously.
National holidays are perfect for zinemaking. Thanks to a new scanner cord, Curran and I have begun producing all of the zines I / he and I have been making. Below is a small sampling of the fare...
