The exhibitions to these two titles are as modern as you can get. The margins questions the stigma attached to the word "ceramic". It is a show that simply answers with the idea that "It is not about the materials, it is what you do with it." The Margins exhibition questions weather or not some sculptures needed to be in ceramic medium at all which further raises the questions about the validity of the medium.
The Alter Modern exhibition at the Tate museum last year (2009) was a revolutionary exhibition that reached new ground. I feel that some people were making art in this capacity ten years prior, but they were just hitting the tip of the iceberg of a new art movement or manifesto. The eight segments the Nicholas Bourriaud (curator) defined were: borders, travel, exile, viatorization, docu-fiction, heterochronia, energy, archive.
Even though these "continents" as he calls them are clearly efined, I believe that some artists dable in these concepts as well within a single piece odf art. My friend John Freyer is a perfect example of this. His book and website: All My Life For Sale
or www.allmylifeforsale.com (as seen on my blog list of favorite sites) is a nice example of thi. John photographed each object that he has collected over the past 10 years and put them up on ebay. Each object is attached with a story which is quite personal. After each object was sold, he went on a log journey throughout the us interviewing and photographing his buyers. His identity as a photographer has been blurred. and his art was a piece that did not belong in a gallery, everyone could take part in and reached extreemley contemporary ideas. It was global, sentimental and travel based. It was a huge success.
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