Altermodern Review

Altermodern is Peter Coffin - who gets it right by dimming the lights, in what appears to be a normal Tate Britain room, creating a comic sense of trespass in an old institution - casting an eerie florescent glow over an old painting of heads, or leaving a Victorian painting in the half dark. Genuine gasps of surprise attend his installation. This is the only work which strikes an experiential balance between old and new - which engages interestingly with its environment, without sticking its fingers in its ears and shouting. Bourriard speaks of Altermodernism as a re-engagement with history, and Tate B is full of it...