Friday 13 March 2009, 18.30–21.00
Saturday 14 March 2009, 10.00–18.00

SOLD OUT

At the dawn of the twenty first century there is a growing consensus among artists, thinkers and critics that Western modernity is in the process of dissolution. Eurocentric, national, state-centered perspectives in art, culture and politics have been challenged at a fundamental level by previously marginal practices and forces: post-colonialism, feminism, postmodernism.

Yet these narratives are themselves under strain as new configurations of political-economic crisis and global war stretch the boundaries of the global order. New, little understood forms of modernity are emerging that are fundamentally reshaping the way we make art, politics, culture and economics globally. This symposium will critically map this emerging landscape in the light of crucial questions posed in the Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009 exhibition. Among the questions to be addressed are the following:

• What comes after postmodernism?
• How will the enlarged scope of global mobility reshape art making?
• What are the terms of global cultural and artistic translation?
• How will new, global understandings of space and time impact virtual and real architecture ?

Speakers include international philosophers, writers, curators and critics including Saskia Sassen, Walter D. Mignolo, Peter Osborne, AbdouMaliq Simone.

Tate Britain  Auditorium
£35 (£25 concessions), booking recommended
Price includes refreshments and a private view of the exhibition on Friday.

SOLD OUT


    

 

Programme

 

Friday March 13 2009

18.30 – 21.00

18.30   Private View of Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009 exhibition for symposium delegates and guests – please arrive at the Manton Entrance

 

Saturday 14 2008

10.00 – 18.15

 

10.00 – 10.30 Coffee and registration

 

10.30Welcome and Introduction to conference – Paul Goodwin, Conference Convenor (Tate)

 

Session 1: Histories of the Present: Genealogies of Global Modernity

How did we get here? What are the historical trajectories of postmodernism, postcolonialism and the development of a global culture?

 

Chair: Prof Stuart Sim

 

10.40 - 11.10 Prof Peter Osborne  The Insatiable Modern

11.10 - 11.40 Prof Walter D Mignolo  Transmodernity and Global (De) Coloniality

11.40 - 12.10 Panel discussion & audience questions

 

12.10 - 13.15 Lunch

 

Session 2: (Global) Art Now: Mobilities and Translating Cultures

How will the enlarged scope of global mobilities and travel reshape trajectories and forms of art making? What are the terms of cultural and artistic translation within a context of ‘planetary negotiations between agents of different cultures’?

Chair: Dr T.J.Demos

13.15 - 13.30 Film of Nicolas Bourriaud on the Altermodern

13.30 – 14.00 Prof Irit Rogoff Geocultures: Circuits of art and globalisation

14.00 - 14.30 Discussion and audience questions

 

14.30 - 15.15 Artists Panel: Bob and Roberta Smith, Katie Paterson, Raimi Gbadmosi in conversation with Dr Anthony Downey (Sotheby’s Institute of Art London)

 

15.15 - 15.30 Tea

 

Session 3: Genius Loci: Architectures of Global Space

How will new understandings of space and time implicit in the notion of global modernities, impact architecture and cities?

Chair: Dr Ayona Datta

15.30 - 16.00 Prof Saskia Sassen Reassembling the Urban

16.00 - 16.30 Prof AbdouMaliq Simone On Intersections and Publics

16.30 - 17.00 Panel discussion and audience questions

 

Closing Plenary Discussion: Led by Professor Peter Osborne

17. 00 - 17.45 Plenary statements and discussion

This event is related to the Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009 exhibition