Thursday, 19 March 2009
Tuesday, 10 March 2009
TRINITY BUOY WHARF
Trinity Buoy Wharf is a site for artistic and cultural activities – located in London's Docklands area, about one mile East of Canary Wharf.
Trinity Buoy Wharf (TBW) provides space for artists and cultural events, both long and short term. We also have a number of spaces for events and filming, including the listed Chainstore Building.
TBW is currently home to around 350 artists and creative businesses.
http://www.trinitybuoywharf.com/home.html
Trinity Bouy Wharf is a space were the art cluster groups will be holding a exhibition, in two large warehouse spaces and a underground room, between the 18th and 24th May 2009. We have been asked to make work that responds to the site in some way. My primary thoughts have been about the relationship between the sites location and its surroundings. And the journey that I take to get to the site, Particularly the DLR route that circles Canary wharf. And the massive contrast between this area of the city and Trinity Buoy Wharf, which is peaceful and calming, away from the rush of the crowds
Sunday, 1 March 2009
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
ALTER (otherness /multiples) MODERN
Also ‘suggests a multitude of possibilities, of alternative to a single route’
Post modern is over and it is an uncertain future, what era are we entering .
The Tate Triennials is trying to capture the general feeling of a collection of artist work that will give us answers to these questions. And that will help us to understand the world we now live in, in relation to economic, political and cultural conditions.
Nicolas Bourriaud describes the way we live today is similar to that of a maze. We need to really search to get meanings out of our surroundings.
This term ALTERMODERN is a global term (as we live in the age of globalisation) unlike the 20th century term of modernism, which was mainly based on western cultural happenings.
This show is trying to discover what the modernity of today is, and rethinking the results of this.
The 4 main starting points
-The term ALTERMODERN itself
-Travelling
-Exile
-Boarders
I am going to discuses a few artist works from the show that I feel were relevant to my work and me.
Walead Beshty
Two pieces of Beshty work stood out to me, the first were a series of large-scale photographs created by passing film through an airport x-ray machine.
The result is shadowy pastel shapes that seem to float across the paper.
The fleeting marks overlap each other, giving a sense of movement. The other work ‘FedEx’ is a series of ongoing sculptures started in 2005. They take the form of glass boxes sent around the world via FedEx. On their journeys from studio to gallery or museum they pick up marks in the form of cracks and breaks. A result of there constant movement.
Both pieces are formed in non-places and by the actions and movements that are conducted here. The titles of each piece provide a record of origin and a chronology of their movement. These object communicate a journey.
Lindsay Seers (fictional narrative)
Is engrossed with recapturing a condition she had as a child, called eidetic memory (photographic memory) that leads her not to talk. This eventually faded at the age of eight, when she began to talk. And the reason she spoke her first words was the consequence of viewing a photo of her and asking’ is that me?’
This may seem confusing but I can honestly say the sort film in the form of a quasi-documentary, which makes up her work at Altermodern was the most compelling piece of work there.
The traumatic loss of this photographic memory meant see felt the need to ‘become’ a camera. Her journey to do this is a lonely and resilient one. She seems to never quite find what she is looking for. She gives up eventually and changes her self into a projector, emitting images in an act of extramission.
More to be discussed shortly….
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
ALTER (otherness /multiples) MODERN
Also ‘suggests a multitude of possibilities, of alternative to a single route’
Post modern is over and it is an uncertain future, what era are we entering .
The Tate Triennials is trying to capture the general feeling of a collection of artist work that will give us answers to these questions. And that will help us to understand the world we now live in, in relation to economic, political and cultural conditions.
Nicolas Bourriaud describes the way we live today is similar to that of a maze. We need to really search to get meanings out of our surroundings.
This term ALTERMODERN is a global term (as we live in the age of globalisation) unlike the 20th century term of modernism, which was mainly based on western cultural happenings.
This show is trying to discover what the modernity of today is, and rethinking the results of this.
The 4 main starting points
-The term ALTERMODERN itself
-Travelling
-Exile
-Boarders
I am going to discuses a few artist works from the show that I feel were relevant to my work and me.
Walead Beshty
Two pieces of Beshty work stood out to me, the first were a series of large-scale photographs created by passing film through an airport x-ray machine.
The result is shadowy pastel shapes that seem to float across the paper.
The fleeting marks overlap each other, giving a sense of movement. The other work ‘FedEx’ is a series of ongoing sculptures started in 2005. They take the form of glass boxes sent around the world via FedEx. On their journeys from studio to gallery or museum they pick up marks in the form of cracks and breaks. A result of there constant movement.
Both pieces are formed in non-places and by the actions and movements that are conducted here. The titles of each piece provide a record of origin and a chronology of their movement. These object communicate a journey.
Lindsay Seers (fictional narrative)
Is engrossed with recapturing a condition she had as a child, called eidetic memory (photographic memory) that leads her not to talk. This eventually faded at the age of eight, when she began to talk. And the reason she spoke her first words was the consequence of viewing a photo of her and asking’ is that me?’
This may seem confusing but I can honestly say the sort film in the form of a quasi-documentary, which makes up her work at Altermodern was the most compelling piece of work there.
The traumatic loss of this photographic memory meant see felt the need to ‘become’ a camera. Her journey to do this is a lonely and resilient one. She seems to never quite find what she is looking for. She gives up eventually and changes her self into a projector, emitting images in an act of extramission.
More to be discussed shortly….
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