Curated by Nicolas Bourriaud

A dozen years after he minted the term relational aesthetics, Nicolas Bourriaud has a new buzzword: altermodernism. For the influential French curator and critic, this is what comes after postmodernism; a renewed response to reality, in which artists consider our globalized moment—hallmarked by ubiquitous communication, travel, migration, and standardization—via work that is postmedium, interdisciplinary, puckishly drawn to deceptive fictions, and eco-friendly. And intercontinental: In Bourriaud’s iteration of the fourth Tate Triennial—an event doubling as his latest catchall’s coming-out party—expect to see British artists such as Tacita Dean and Marcus Coates, foreigners-in-residence (Gustav Metzger), and even a few “passersby” (e.g., Loris Gréaud, Rachel Harrison). A preceding series of daylong colloquiums (or “prologues”) aims to stoke debate; T. J. Demos, Okwui Enwezor, Carsten Höller, and Tom McCarthy contribute to the catalogue.

— Martin Herbert