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Added 2025-08-08 14:59:47 +0000 UTCIâm writing a new report about the past decade of contemporary art. What subjects should i include??
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Would definitely spend some time reflecting on 'Zombid Formalism' and the dangerous precedent it set for younger artists, particularly out of London collages, all thinking that they were going to get 'picked up' instantly after graduation, when it was just the market swaying heavily to youth/abstraction for a few years. This has meant that in London there has been a dearth of project spaces and artist run groups/shows, and a huge lack of experimentation. A perceived 'professionalism' (aka perceived wealth) pushed forward by the few very lucky young zombie formalists - has meant there is much less of a desire to just make things happen your self, work together etc, because everyone felt that if they followed model it would be a done deal.
Daniel Curtis
2025-08-31 18:18:54 +0000 UTCCommunity engagement identity art
Calli Ryan
2025-08-31 18:09:08 +0000 UTCryan trecartin
joe pol
2025-08-20 06:06:35 +0000 UTCjournals like Contemporary Art Daily, Tzevetnik, Art Viewer etc in the 2010s and their influence on art journalism/artist run spaces
Joshua Boulos
2025-08-15 05:35:18 +0000 UTCSaw someone respond to your insta post on this mentioning that weird sculpture etc associated with OOO / 'anthropocene' etc...that spindly/spikey/gloopy/ecological style. It's def worth noting as a certain self-subsistent side-strain that grew out of post-net - where it had encountered and sliced with speculative realism, OOO, ecological ideas - and also as a part of the ongoing evolution of microaesthetics. One could prob trace this deep end of microaesthetics to James Ferraro, surfing clubs, early aesthetic tumblr, microgenres. This encounter of post-net/microaesthetics with speculative realism / ecology started in earnest around 2014/15-ish (altho some post-net artists - Si-Qin, Novitskova - were already getting into 'new materialism' / OOO-y ideas around 2010)... some of the post-post-net sculpture starts to get more formally gnarly / complex / eco-related. Spec realism was actually meant as an alternative to post-structuralism so when Woke / political discourse gained institutional dominance in mid 2010s contemporary art, this strain sorta ran parallel and mostly distinct to that because this was more formal/ontology-related rather than discourse-based - see spec realism's ideas on correlationism and trying to engage reality beyond the textual/human etc. This art was covered on Ofluxo and Tzvetnik, and a more accelerated / non-gallery version of it evolved through 'offsites' (often installed in forests, bedrooms, garages, etc and photographed/shared online) which grew out of dual-sites and are organized thru little collectives/projects like Solo_Show / Rhizome Parking Garage, etc. I wouldn't say this has all defined the larger trends in recent contemporary art... it actually happened sort of outside a lot of it for a while... the offsites corner of it especially being decidedly extra-institutional and usually made up of younger artists still developing their practice... but it was/is def a 'thing', and a continuing distinct evolution of post-post-net art. And is still evolving, much of it recently went more animecore/etc. Some would be dismissive of some formal cliches that happen or whatever in this space (altho it's supposed to work more in a hivemind / shared approach in the offsites' case), but one could at least say that it has represented a set of aesthetic and methodological styles/approaches very distinct to this recent period (mid 2010s to present) - so people can't totally say that there weren't certain new aesthetic styles happening, much more so than in the bigger institutional spaces / biennales
c_hristian
2025-08-13 19:52:57 +0000 UTCproliferation of actor artists
MrMerlot
2025-08-12 21:53:07 +0000 UTC
