metamodernism

ArtInfo discusses metamodernism with Timotheus Vermeulen

Art, In the press / By / October 21, 2012

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 …

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Defining the rootless label: a romantically ironic appeal

Music, Theory / By / October 18, 2012

This article deals with a thought process which I have tried to capture. For a long time I have wished for a definition of Asperger’s Syndrome, a desire based on my own experience with it. Here I would like to illustrate that my study and life have evoked some thoughts about Asperger’s. Those ideas have developed …

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Questioning Multiculturalism

Politics / By / October 18, 2012

By the end of the 1980s, one term had become the magic word in political theory and a mainstay of social politics in many liberal, western states: Multiculturalism. Between the numerous attempts of political, legal and cultural theory to combine the project of state liberalism with a recognition of cultural plurality, even announcements of a  …

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Discussing Metamodernism

Art, Exhibitions / By / March 19, 2013

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that so prematurely proclaimed ‘End of History’, the postmodern culture of relativism, irony and pastiche, too, is superseded by another sensibility.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 …

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Metamodernism, Quirky and Feminism*

Film/TV, Politics / By / May 7, 2014

As metamodernism as an idiom, philosophy, sensibility and cultural force are being developed, conceptualized and analyzed, I think it is time to address an important and central aspect so far overlooked, namely that of feminism. What kind of feminist implications does metamodernism entail? What kinds of femininity does metamodernist art and popular culture depict? How …

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TANK Magazine interviews Timotheus Vermeulen

In the press, Theory / By / February 23, 2012

The renowned arts and culture magazine TANK Magazine has published an interview with Notes on metamodernism co-founder Timotheus Vermeulen. In the interview, Vermeulen discusses the meaning of the term metamodernism, the effects of the geopolitical and financial crises, generational differences and developments in the arts. Timotheus Vermeulen, with fellow cultural theorist Robin van den Akker, introduced …

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