In his recent study The Signature of All Things, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben suggests that the present can be discovered on the shores of remembrance and recovered at the frontiers of future dreams. It lingers somewhere between what we have not yet forgotten and what we cannot yet imagine. With this idea of the …
The history of photography carries with it a history of abstraction. Since its inception, artists have used the medium to transform, to lift loose the appearances of the world, and to present us with images beyond our recognition or expectation. Karl Blossfeldt’s close-up studies of plants revealed the otherworldliness of endless Fibonacci spirals, set in …
Photography as Metamodern Alchemy: the work of Stuart Bailes Read More »
Alexander Forbes interviews gallerist Tanja Wagner and cultural philosopher Timotheus Vermeulen: In any moment, it’s nearly impossible to locate or isolate shifts, changes in tendencies, whether social, aesthetic, or otherwise—banal critical statement of the year, certainly. But, for Berlin’s (and the art world’s at large) current state of flux, of non-identity and non-identification, perhaps such …
ArtInfo discusses metamodernism with Timotheus Vermeulen Read More »
Postmodernism is over. As global warming, the credit crunch and political instabilities are rapidly taking us beyond that so prematurely proclaimed ‘End of History’, the postmodern culture of relativism, irony and pastiche, too, is superseded by another sensibility. One that evokes the will to look forward, that invokes the will to hope again. Discussing Metamodernism brings …
The Berlin Art Journal discusses the metamodern mindset. Alexander Forbes writes: In any moment, it’s nearly impossible to locate or isolate shifts, changes in tendencies, whether social, aesthetic, or otherwise—banal critical statement of the year, certainly. But, as we’ve probed several times within this very publication and surely as others have as well, for Berlin’s …
In the late 1980s, Joost Zwagerman’s (1963) debut novel Gimmick[1] caused a sensation in press and public as a novel that defined the Zeitgeist and spoke for a generation, the postmodern generation. Recently he wrote Duel[2] (2010), a shorter novel published as the traditional gift of the annual week-of-books, which can be considered as a …
