“Think Occupy Wall St. is a phase?”, media theorist Douglas Rushkoff writes on CNN.com – “You don’t get it.” According to Rushkoff, the recent protests, demonstrations, bridge-ins, walk-ins and sit-ins are less exceptions to that old postmodern rule of compromise and neoliberal fundamentalism than symptoms of a new paradigm. Anyone who says he has no idea …
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The Norwegian Newspaper Klassekampen featured a two-page article on metamodernism and an interview with our very own Gry Rustad last week. The article discusses cultural practices we have addressed in detail in this webzine – such as the election of Barack Obama, the rise of the Tea Party, the work of Olafur Eliasson, Coco Rosie, …
The 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, beginning the last week of september, will run a cinematic program on metamodernism. Curated by Jake Yuzna, No More Modern: Notes on Metamodernism pairs recent video works by Mariechen Danz, Benjamin Martin, Sharyar Nashat and Pilvi Takala with free copies of Vermeulen & Van den Akker’s essay Notes on Metamodernism. …
It’s twenty years since the first issue of Frieze. To celebrate this milestone, the september issue of the magazine looks back at two decades of art, art criticism and essayism – and occasionally peaks into the (un)foreseeable future. Along with Simon Critchley and Nina Power, our very own Timotheus Vermeulen reviewed the philosophical debates that have come …
Notes on metamodernism is one year old today! We would like to thank all our contributors – James, Kyle, Michael, Leonard, Nadine, Stephan, Luke, Hanka, Niels, Reina, Constantin, David, and Gry – for their great and original insights. We’d also like to thank you, our reader, for returning to our webzine in such great numbers …
When we found out that starchitect Rafael Vinoly accepted an invitation from the Museum of the City of New York to discuss the state of architecture after postmodernism we were obviously intrigued. Somehow we were hoping that the outspoken Vinoly would offer some clues as to where twenty-first century architecture is going aesthetically and perhaps …
