What’s up with us and the moon? Having ignored it for years, nay, centuries, keeping our eyes firmly to the ground, we have recently begun looking for it everywhere and anywhere. Obsessively, desperately almost. It is almost as if we suddenly grew worried that it might no longer be there. That we were afraid that …
Last October thirteen international young artists were showing their work in an old hotel in Munich, called Mariandl. Two of them – Stephanie Müller and Klaus Erich Dietl – transformed one of the hotel rooms into a therapy room. The room itself as well as their therapeutic concept was a combination of surrealism and humorous …
As a lecturer in Cultural and Media Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, I recently taught an undergraduate course on Modernism. In addition to a class discussion on the discourse surrounding the museum of modern art, the participating students also visited the Van Abbemuseum
Locked Room Scenario, an exhibition constructed within an exhibition, could most certainly be regarded as ‘meta’, but is there also a metamodernist sensibility at play? I must confess, I came to see Ryan Gander’s show rather late on during it’s two-month long run. I had by this stage read many a review of this, the …
Postmodernism announced the death of the subject, but recent developments in literature, philosophy and political agency suggest that it is alive and kicking as ever. Not in form of the modern Cartesian ego though and also not in denial of all the subjectivity-disrupting forces that postmodern theory pointed out. It returns with a great leap …
From the 15th of November 2011 to the 15th of January 2012, the Museum of Art and Design (MAD) in New York will host a small group exhibition dedicated to metamodernism: No more modern: Notes on metamodernism. The exhibition, curated by Jake Yuzna with the assistance of Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker, includes …
