Seattle Metamodernism Summit 2022 @ BALLARD HOMESTEAD

In these often irony-soaked, context-dependent, everything-is-uncertain times, how does the current moment inspire artists of all sorts to create in a different, what some call “metamodern,” register? How has this moment invited cultural forms, even identities, that seem to respond more earnestly, with a sense of sincere irony or “ironesty”? Where does an individual self stand when the self is understood to be multiply configured through a mediatized prism?

Metamodernism has been conceived of as a sensibility emerging in the recent decades in which millennials and Gen Z have become the predominant drivers of culture. This has occurred in part because metamodern artworks address the above questions creatively, playfully, and reflexively. Metamodern cultural products (we’re talking here about film, television, literary fiction, musical and poetic performance, video games, architecture, visual art, marketing, even slang and humor styles) are considered to be those that engage the conflicts between (modernist) conviction and (postmodern) relativism by embodying an aesthetic that, we might say, braids the sensibilities of modernism and postmodernism, often by emphasizing “felt experience.”

What the heck does that all mean? What does metamodern art actually look like, sound like, feel like? And why are individuals and artists of various kinds (and, increasingly, marketing and branding agents, as well), drawn to it?

The Seattle Metamodernism Summit (SMMS22) aims to speak to these kinds of questions!

SMMS22 brings together leading international scholars who will guide attendees as we dive into the deep end of current metamodernism research. They will present, in a symposium format, a series of short talks designed to be both friendly to the curious public and also meaningful to fellow scholars in the advancement of their research. Topics will span the gamut of cultural products from architecture to fiction to video games, etc, and also include conceptual topics like Totality, Creativity and Liminality. Please see our website for a list of the specific presentation topics!

We’re excited to present a roundtable of three notable metamodernism scholars hailing from the Netherlands and England – Timotheus Vermeulen, Robin van den Akker and Alison Gibbons – in celebration of the 5-year anniversary of their ground-breaking volume, Metamodernism: historicity, affect, depth after postmodernism (Rowman & Littlefield).

To further explore metamodern aesthetics in a personal, experiential way, SMMS22 will also feature a panel of singer-songwriters and poets, performing and discussing metamodern themes in the arts: John Van Deusen (The Lonely Forest), Sierra Nelson, Costello (Pretty Broken Things), Scott Thurston, Antony Rowland and Greg Dember.

Nitty-gritty details:

This will be a hybrid event with two attendance options:

A full day of talks and the performance panel on Sat. Sept. 10th will be hosted live at the Ballard Homestead. Remote attendance by Zoom will also be an option.

Additionally, we will host a half-day of talks given exclusively over Zoom on Sun. Sept. 11th. This online-only day is free to everyone who registers for Day One (whether you register as an in-person or as an online participant for the first day).

Note that we also offer a ticketing option for in-person attendance of the singer/poet panel only (5:00 pm on Sept 10th).

Group lunch on Sept 10th — No need to disperse off-site to feed yourself. Included in the price of admission for in-person, full-day attendees is a catered, boxed lunch. This will enable us to have more conversation time as a group. Join a table with a curated conversation topic, if you wish! (Our online participants will also be offered a hosted discussion session during this time.)

Schedule:

Saturday, September 10th 9:15am to 6:30pm (PDT)

*Songwriter/Poet Panel 5:00pm to 6:30 (Doors 4:45 PDT)

Sunday, September 11th: 10:00am to 2:15pm (PDT) –presentation panels continue on Zoom

Please check our for the specific timing of presentations and panels, as well as other important details being updated.

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