Alter Modern Times @ Share NYC

21st of february I joined in the Share jam to try out some new visual material from my visual culture+lifestyle design/art-project which I named Alter Modern Times. The title is inspired by Nicolas Bourriauds´s bookAltermodern (Tate Publishing, 2009) and by Charlie Chaplin´s film Modern Times (1937). It is a journal based art project (video /sound /graphics /photography), which sprung out of the idea of what energies displacement creates, thoughts on what´s next after postmodernism and a will to explore and invent alternatives to the 9-5-lifestyle

This citation from the foreword of Altermodern pretty much sums up the base of my project. ”Artists are looking for a new modernity that would be based on translation: What matters today is to translate the cultural values of cultural groups and to connect them to the world network. This ‘reloading process’ of modernism according to the twenty-first-century issues could be called altermodernism, a movement connected to the creolisation of cultures and the fight for autonomy, but also the possibility of producing singularities in a more and more standardized world.  /- – -/.

Under the threat from fundamentalism and consumer-driven uniformisation, menaced by massification and the enforced re-abandonment of individual identity, art today needs to reinvent itself, and on a planetary scale. /- – -/ It is neither a petrified kind of time advancing in loops (postmodernism) nor a linear vision of history (modernism), but a positive experience of disorientation through an art-form exploring all dimensions of the present, tracing lines in all directions of time and space. The artist turns cultural nomad: what remains of the Baudelarian model of modernism is no doubt this flânerie, transformed into a technique for generating creativeness and deriving knowledge.”

Alter Modern Times live audio visual performance:

#01 Share, Issue Project Room, New York City [US] 21 february
#02 O-Space, One Arm Red, New York City [US] 04 march
#03 Share, Issue Project Room, New York City [US] 16 march
#04 Hvorslev Kunstforening, Ulstrup Castle, Aarhus [DK] 16-17 april
#05 Volt Festival, Uppsala [SE] 5 june
#06 Norberg Festival [SE] 29 july
#07 Sound and Images in Contemporary Communication, Magasinet, Falun [SE] 11 november
#08 Paris [FR] TBA

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Photo: Ricardo Fernandez

More info:

http://www.share.dj – click New York

http:// …Alter Modern Times – project website up soon

By Joel Dittrich
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