The Radicant

The radicant is becoming my little white bible… “In ordinary language, ‘modernizing’ has come to mean reducing cultural and social reality to Western formats. And today, modernism amounts to a form of complicity with colonialism and Eurocentrism. Let us bet on a...

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...

Tate Triennial 2009

Posted on Frieze Issue 120 Jan-Feb 2009 Nicolas Bourriaud, curator of the next Tate Triennial, ‘Altermodern’, talks to frieze about botany, modernity, time, class and exhibition-making image TOM MORTON Your forthcoming book The Radicant employs a botanical metaphor to...

Un nouveau concept en art

Posted on Le Monde on 04/09/09 by Emmanuelle Lequeux Le Français Nicolas Bourriaud aime les concepts et ce n’est pas ce qu’il fait de plus mal. Cet ancien directeur du Palais de Tokyo, le principal centre d’art en France, a profité de son exil...

Voids

Voids is a retrospective of empty exhibitions with nine empty rooms, a radical show that is both empty and full of value to celebrate 50 years of the art of the void since Yves Klein in 1958. Read more about it here “The idea of exhibiting emptiness is a...