Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker: Notes on Metamodernism

Timotheus Vermeulen (Radboud University) and Robin van den Akker (Erasmus University) give notes on metamodernism, in a cultural analysis of current art practices and in review of the workshops given at A New Dawn.

The workshops they discuss were given by Wunderbaum, Ulf Aminde, Nathan Johnson, Tod Machover, Katja Gruijters, Charles Avery, John-Paul Flintoff, Sara Pape Garcia, Saskia van Drimmelen & Margreet Sweerts, Next Nature, Michiel Schwarz & Diana Krabbendam, Rob Voerman.

[trevorwilliams]

"A grand narrative that shows that it knows of the problems of past stories" I love this informed largeness that metamodernism describes.

[NoNamedNobody]

Thanks a million for posting this. I have been so intriguingly interested in the work that these guys have done, as well as also trying to work through and make sense of this new transitioning or shift within these different theoretical epochs we are oftentimes at odds with (i.e Moving on from the Postmodern thoughts/ideals/concepts/tropes/notions, and making sense in understanding these new trends that have appeared and become ever more apparent within the past 20 years or so).

I think "Metamodernism", in its formulation, conception, implications, and current understandings (as we know them so far at least) could very well be the defining epoch amongst the current many that all aim in trying to understand how best to describe the current trends of the "Post-Postmodernism" concept/movement.

Very informative, as well as interesting.

Thanks again.

[matthewjackson]

The one lecturer summed it all up when he stated "we really don't know where things are going". These guys are stabbing at the straw, but I don't mind because they are at least thinking and not being indifferent. IMHO, nothing really changes per se, it just changes form and I think this is what they are getting at. They are just speculating as to what forms will re-emerge during this new epoch of Metamodernism.

[flynnjaman]

A necessary reason for the reason of optimism

[Scede]

What is the artist's name he mentions @13:02?

[hanksy]

IG @han_ksy ta-Da artist. Tantric dada occilatingtions

[eduardotorres]

The short guy is inlove with the other guy and they will have a white supremacist baby how beautiful