NOT AN ALTERNATIVE

Not An Alternative is a collective and non-profit organisation that works at the intersection of art, activism and theory. It has a mission to affect popular understandings of events, symbols, institutions and history. Through engaged critical research and design, the group curates and produces interventions on material and immaterial space, bringing together tools from art, architecture, exhibition design and political organising.

All these efforts are enacted with an eye towards social change and strategies for creative political intervention that involve creating points of entry for arts audiences and everyday citizens alike–not through a typical head-on (or head-butt) approach, but through the occupation and redeployment of popular vernacular, semiotics and memes.

Not An Alternative’s performances, exhibitions, and presentations have been featured within art institutions such as Guggenheim (NY), PS1/MOMA (NY), Tate Modern (London), Victoria & Albert Museum (London), MOCAD (Detroit), and Museo del Arte Moderno (Mexico City), and in the public sphere, where they collaborate with community groups and activist mobilisations.

For more than a decade Not An Alternative hosted free lectures, screenings, panel discussions, workshops and artist presentations at their studio in Brooklyn, New York. The space consisted of a production workshop, filming studio, video editing suite, and a coworking space for artists, activists, scholars, and cultural producers.

http://www.notanalternative.org