'Altermodern' Tate Triennial

'Altermodern art often functions as a hypertext, translating and transcoding information from one format to another. Artists wander in geography as well as in history, exploring a transcultural landscape saturated with signs to create new pathways between multiple formats of expression and communication.' Nicolas Bourriaud.

Marcus Coates was who I initially went to see through his interests in ornithology, zoology and anthropology he asks what it is to be human by experimenting with ‘being’ an animal. He has adopted a shamanic role to access a nether world populated by birds & animals. He communicates with their spirits to get an insight into public problems. He is quite funny but is humour at the expense of native cultures. The interaction between him and the nether world and the translator interpreting what he was saying to the mayor of Israeli about the youth of today was humorous couldn't help thinking that Adidas must be some kind of sponsor for him as he always has that tracky on. But at the end of it the advise was insightful.mmm



I particularly liked this one by Subodh Gupta 'Line of Control' 2008 symbolises the release of the uneasy pressure-point, that liberates mundane, tension-ridden reality through a bursting mushroom cloud of kitchen utensils. In a world constantly being lost or destroyed, only to emerge anew, reconfigured and reconstructed from its own debris. Before I read all that my first thoughts were the amount of pots and pans that I must of cleaned in my lifetime is unbelievable. There would be alot more famous women in this world if it wasn't for bloody house work.

Spartiacus Chetwynd, 'Hermitos Childen' I was knackered after rehearsals so grateful to veg out on the bean bags provided, ignoring the big hairy fairy being pushed at me on the TVs screens I was more interested in the people watching it and how everyone looked so comfy in a museum environment like they were in there own living rooms. I think the piece to me was more about the atmosphere that it was creating within its environment.

Loris Greaud, 'Trimors Where forever (Frequency of an image, white edit)'2008He has recorded his own brain activity for thirty minutes during a time of intense thought about the 'Cellar Door' global project. His cerebral wanderings are translated into a physical tangible experience. Very clean white futuristic like it was floating in the air an extra terrestial alien. Fantastic.

This one reminded me of the Dark Chrystal the monsters that were in it.

Gustav Metzger, 'Liquid Crystals Environment' was one of my favorites didn't manage to get a picture, five projectors with slides made up of two thin sheets of glass containing a small amount of liquid crystals. Which when heated and cooled caused a sphysicdelic kaleidoscope. You sat in a room again with bean bags and listened reminded me of the sixties without the hippies and ganga. Very relaxing