Nicole Aarts is writing her MFA Thesis on metamodernism and artificial landscapes at the Fontys University for Applied Sciences in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Her research includes the work of among others Ochoa, Sigurdardottir, Fischer, and Eliasson (see below). Any further suggestions? Contact us at mtmdrn at gmail dot com.
Vannessa Thorpe, arts and media correspondent for The Observer, perceives a new generation of artists turning its back on the by now anachronistic YBAs. “As some of the former rebels of the notorious Young British Artist movement are accused of selling out to “the establishment”, a new generation is taking their place, flaunting an altogether …
The dutch philosophy journal Twijfel just published the article ‘Metamodernisme’ by Robin van den Akker and Timotheus Vermeulen. The essay updates their previous article ‘Notes on metamodernism’, taking into account recent developments in (international) politics and finance. Unfortunately for all our readers unfamiliar with the dutch language however, it’s entirely in dutch.
In its latest issue, the acclaimed online journal for the arts, e-flux, looks into our crisis-ridden moment, and its relation to current affairs and contemporary aesthetics. In the aptly titled Idiot Wind: On the rise of Right-Wing Populism in the US and Europe, and What it Means for Contemporary Art, the editors gathered a series of dispatches from the frontline between politics and art – from the US and the UK to Germany and Austria and from Denmark and Holland to France and Spain. For whoever is interested (and we imagine that our regular readers certainly are) it is most definitely worth the while. So please do take your time to read the abundantly illustrated, inspired and, by times, angry reports.
The German newspapers Die Zeit and Der Tagesspiegel look forward to 2011. What do they see? Metamodernism!
