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 …
Upon entering Nathalie Djurberg’s (1978) exhibition (Boijmans, 2011) one cannot avoid a sense of bewilderment. Set up around stop-motion claymation video’s of mostly naked figures dancing delightedly, flirting intimately and toying tenderly with the most gruesome of animals or each other, the exhibition seems to travel some well-trodden grounds. All too familiar themes such as …
Metamodernism is above all about oscillation. Or at least for me it is. It is about the oscillation between the modern and the postmodern, history and ahistoricity, optimism and pessimism, sincerity and irony, the concept and the material, the figurative and the formless, narrative and the plotless, discursive originality and individual intertextuality, meaning and meaninglessness. …
On first impression, Charles LeDray’s work in his recent mid-career retrospective, “Workworkworkworkwork,” at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, could be described as, for lack of a better word, cute. LeDray’s work is largely comprised of thousands of miniatures: suits, ceramic vessels, magazines, beds, books. The detritus of urban life. Adding to …
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.
