A first work in progress performance of Alter Modern Times, at Share (Project Issue Room), Brooklyn, New York, 21 feb 2010.
The title is inspired by Nicolas Bourriauds´s book “Altermodern” (Tate Publishing, 2009) and by Charlie Chaplin´s film “Modern Times” (1937). It is a journal based art project (video /sound /graphics /photography), which sprung out of the idea of what energies displacement creates, thoughts on what´s next after postmodernism and a will to explore and invent alternatives to the 9-5-lifestyle.
This citation from the foreword of Altermodern pretty much sums up the base of my project: “Under the threat from fundamentalism and consumer-driven uniformisation, menaced by massification and the enforced re-abandonment of individual identity, art today needs to reinvent itself, and on a planetary scale. /- – -/ It is neither a petrified kind of time advancing in loops (postmodernism) nor a linear vision of history (modernism), but a positive experience of disorientation through an art-form exploring all dimensions of the present, tracing lines in all directions of time and space. The artist turns cultural nomad: what remains of the Baudelarian model of modernism is no doubt this flânerie, transformed into a technique for generating creativeness and deriving knowledge.”
About the venue: “ISSUE Project Room provides an open and versatile environment where both established and emerging artists can conduct, exhibit and perform new and site-specific work according to their respective visions. Through an evolving collaboration with curators, artists and educators, ISSUE Project Room fosters a wide-range of artistic projects that challenge and expand conventional practices in art.”
Alter Modern Times live audio visual performance:
- Share (Issue Project Room) New York City [US] 21.02 and 16.03 2010
- O-Space (One Arm Red) New York City [US] 04.03 2010
- Hvorslev Art Association (Ulstrup Castle) Aarhus/Ulstrup [DK] 16-17.04 2010
- Volt (Ström i P2/Sveriges Radio, Uppsala Koncert & Kongress) Uppsala [SE] 05.06 2010
- Norbergfestival (Mimerlaven, Kraftwerk) Norberg [SE] 29-31.07 2010
- The Impact of Sound and Images in Contemporary Communication (Högskolan Dalarna University) Falun [SE] 11.11 2010