Modern, Postmodern, Altermodern?

Multicultural ideology pretends to resolve the problem of modernism from a quantitative point of view: more and more “cultural specificities” rear their heads, and, supposedly, this is positive. A new internationalist spirit has taken up the relay of the modernist universalism, but it lies in the internationalism of folklores and of “identities”. Artists are looking for a new modernity that would be based on translation : What matters today  is to translate the cultural values of cultural groups and  to connect them to the world network.  This “reloading process” of  modernism according to the 21st century issues could be called altermodernism, a movement connected to the creolisation of cultures and the fight for autonomy, but also the possibility of producing singularities in a more and more standardized world.

Nicolas Bourriaud, Director Palais de Tokyo, Paris