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  • This year the Tate Triennial is called "Altermodern," a word coined by its curator, Nicolas Bourriaud.

    'Altermodern' Is Nothing New 2009

  • "Off Voice Fly Tip, 2009," an installation by the usually witty artist who calls himself "Bob and Roberta Smith" is typical of this sorry show in its collection of windy rhetoric: a photograph of a youthful Barack Obama with "Altermodern" scrawled over the forehead in black felt-tip and a pinned-on badge saying "I am Bob & Roberta Smith."

    'Altermodern' Is Nothing New 2009

  • Coates is currently exhibiting in the 'Altermodern' Tate Triennial at Tate Britain.

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  • Coates is currently exhibiting in the 'Altermodern' Tate Triennial at Tate Britain.

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  • This has since been largely replaced with the sententious, mock-political, theory-garbling, freelance-curating aesthetic that could best be seen in Tate Britain's recent "Altermodern" triennial exhibition.

    New Statesman 2009

  • Yet it is Sebald who Nicolas Bourriaud, the curator of the triennial, invokes, laying out the territory of what he calls the "Altermodern", an "other" modern - a rootless modernism for the 21st century, a synthesis of modernism and post-colonialism, in which the artist "turns cultural nomad".

    Culture | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • "Altermodern", an "other" modern - a rootless modernism for the 21st century, a synthesis of modernism and post-colonialism, in which the artist "turns cultural nomad".

    Museum Blogs 2009

  • LONDON - 'Altermodern', the fourth Tate Triennial, which will present some of the best new contemporary art in Britain, opens at Tate Britain on 3 February

    Art Knowledge News 2009

  • 'Altermodern', the fourth Tate Triennial opens at Tate Britain

    Art Knowledge News 2009

  • "Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009" addresses the new culture of globalization in works by contemporary artists working in various media, from painting to film and video.

    Time Off: Cultural Events Around Europe 2009

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