Charles Avery | Aleph Null Head and Installation of Drawings | Altermodern Exhibit @ Tate Triennial 2009I'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.
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