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"altermodernism", which Bourriaud defines as "the moment when it became possible for us to produce something that made sense starting from an assumed heterochrony".
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World Wide Words: 'This has appeared, like a dusty fly speck dotted across the review pages of the more upmarket British newspapers this month, because Altermodern is the name given to Tate Britain’s Triennial 2009 exhibition. The term was coined by the exhibition’s curator, the French cultural theorist Nicolas Bourriaud.'
February 21, 2009