AltArt Presents: What Is AlterModern?
February 22, 2009 in Alt Porn Gossip, Straight by admin
What Is AlterModernity? SuperModernity? How does this apply to AltPorn? These are the questions I will attempt to answer to some extent as well as extend the question to others. What is it all?
In an upcoming interview with Syd Blakovich of Pink and White Productions we attempt to uncover some of the concepts and ideas that are relative to the world of “High Art” as compared to the world of “Porn Art”.
Well, to be quite honest I am fairly aware of what these occurences are in the world of art as well as the how that applies to pornography today being created by independent directors and studio directors alike that have taken it to the forefront of industry. Andrew Blake, Eon Mckai, Kimberly Kane, Sean Adamz, Syd Blakovich, Blaise Christie, Chase Lisbon and others. Each individual has created a segment of their vision or their time in the idea of what they find interesting. Many of these specific artist are riding the line between artist and pornographer, is this Altermodern? This is what creates a movement in Art, not one person or a few people that are making something. Recently, there have been many debates on who and what made what and who made who in the Alternative Pornography Industry? Some people think that expression is a labeled device that can be sold like a slab of beef. And they are right to believe that, they are ,we are, you are buying and selling it now as we speak. Artist are all trying to find their audience and some artist share audience, for differing reasons. Consumerism is everything and everywhere, and its part of what makes art happen, so how is it that in music, and film making you are considered a ‘sell out’ if you are marketing your art to the people that may like it. Each person that creates art in a movement is a needed thread in the fabric of the movement, no one person has created it all, or can possibly take responsibility for anything but their own personal creations.
How do individuals in alternative pornography debate that it was created in this time of now, or 5 years or 10 years ago?”
Many of the independent films and art house films that you see are direct descendants of films that were made in the early 1900′s when pornography was at a diferent standard of extreme exposure that it is now. Alternative was not the phrase used to describe the odd, eclectic, artistic, weird, or the strange, and subculture erotica was almost exactly what it is today. The movies and photographs are there to prove it. The difference being that for The Situationalist Internationale to publish their works they had to work 10 times harder for world distribution than we do today. However, they did it. Their branding and anti-anti rhetoric was and still is used to describe the undermining of the people by industrial landscapes and television commercialism. Their magazines, movies and exhibitions tested even the most understanding curators and caused controversial statements to be made that were often times absurd. The movement was Dada in the sense that their message was clear yet completely unclear and able to be translated by the viewer into a factual event based on their experience and the happening that occurred to lead them to that point.
Man Ray, traveled the world to be heard and accepted by his audiences in France and then later returning to the states in the 1940′s to Hollywood where he filmed and photographed some of the top stars of the art scene and the film stars of that time, nude and manipulated their images with many different artistic applications. His work was Dada and Surrealist with hints of Expressionist industrial era metaphores and comparison of the harsh cold steel and new industrial life to that of beauty. Futurist had some hand in the creation of the Ashcan Artist movement who later started their movements in the Philadelphia and New York City art communities. World wide, Bizzarre Magazine published photographs from some of the most bizzarre sex actscreated by the artistic photographers of the world. Bizzarre was published by Taschen one of the leading publishing houses of magazines and books protaining to deviant art, surrealism,dada,smut,fetish,sex,abstract,and the odd still to this day. No Wave was born from a mixture of the new level of industry in music culture, art and the ways that they effect each other was apparent with female artist like The Slits, Schneeman, Lydia Lunch, Lori Anderson and male artist such as Sid Viscious, Nick Cave, GG Allin and an entire timeline of modern deviant artists that can be found in Lipstick Traces a secret history of the 20th century, if you would like to take the time to read the book you will have almost as much useless information about subculture as the guy that wrote the book. Its packed full of notes, and facts about what was happening behind the scenes to create the things that people saw in public. As well as dates and answers questions about which came first..the chicken or the egg?
Today, we have moved so far into the unfolding of technology and pushing the boundaries of sexuality that we have arrived at a new conclusion. Post Modernism is finished, there is a neo-concept that has been described in many ways. Over the past years I have been referring to it as super-modern sexuality. This is not anything new that we are just finding out about, this is the motivating factor behind why the project exist. LazerBunny is DADA , through and through and is also porn, as well as Situationalist and Super-Modern, by design. AltPorn is a mixture of expressionist art with a hint of each of the things that we will talk about in ‘AltArt Presents’
I will get into more into who|what|why later as we find out a little bit more about some of the artist that create the alt,queer,different,abstract,hipster,punk,artsy,porn that you all love (or you wouldn’t be here)
In the upcoming months we will unfold many different interviews, concepts, ideas and question the very essence of the experience that is being molded together by a handful of directors,performers,art studios,pornographers, and freaks. AlterModern will be discussed, as well as the super-modern sexuality theories and how they are contributing to and are effected by the AlterModern.
What did we learn from this? Nothing.
But IS Postmodernity DEAD? if so, Thank God ‘PoMo‘ is Dead. I hate that phrase.
Nicolas Bourriaud, explains .. Altermodern
More later…
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“you know what, today, I learned something..”
us too! Nicolas Bourriaud is genius in that video.
Of course, we are not postmodern anymore. We become Altermodern? Possibly maybe. For sure is an interesting concept, one of the possible ways to travel:
“Altermodern art is thus read as a hypertext; artists translate and transcode information from one format to another, and wander in geography as well as in history. This gives rise to practices which might be referred to as ‘time-specific’, in response to the ‘site-specific’ work of the 1960s.”
A famous italian poet told “We can’t tell who we are, but who we are NOT.” and we are not postmodern anymore.
We are art-porn maybe, we are the strange that will create the new normality.
AltPornStar is exactly this explanation, we are completing the mapping of the postmodern into the altermodern within the supermodern sexuality experience. In other words to say that if history is the final uncharted continent then we decided that we must create an extension of ourselves and allow others the chance to do the same in the new modern sexual culture. The things that were created in the past have become obsolete yet very relevant to the machine of the future. The last and the first machine are the organic machinery inherited by every item on this planet and every other. Art traveled to space first… not monkeys or russians or americans. We intend to attempt the same… while also looking at lots of naked hot girls.