This talk explores the politics that shape visual representations of nature, strategies for presenting scientific fact, and the responsibility of cultural institutions to respond to the climate crisis....
This Sunday! Join us for a talk by media theorist McKenzie Wark at the Eyebeam Annual Showcase in Dumbo. Facebook RSVP here. The Natural History Museum with McKenzie Wark @ The Eyebeam Annual Showcase Gallery 216, 111 Front Street, Brooklyn, NY Feb. 15, 2014, 4pm - 6pm In the anthropocene, natural...
As honorary fellows at Eyebeam, we're excited to be a part of this year's annual Eyebeam showcase. We'll be there as The Natural History Museum. Opening Reception Thursday, January 29th, 6-8PM Please note this exhibition will take place in DUMBO, Brooklyn at Gallery 216, 111 Front Street. Eyebeam's 2015...
Not An Alternative member Jodi Dean presents a talk on the strategy of institutional occupation at the Art & Activism panel at Manifest 10, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art. ...
Artist John Hawke presents at Not An Alternative's Occupied Real Estate installation in Exit Art on May 12, 2012. The installation was featured in Collective/Performative, the final exhibition of Exit Art’s influential 30 years as a non-profit gallery and cultural center. John has since moved to...
Not An Alternative is pleased to participate in "The Politics of the Social in Contemporary Art" at the Tate Modern in London. Organized by Tate Modern, Adventures of Seeing, and the Visual and Material Culture Research Centre, Kingston University. Can art intervene in social relations? What...
Video documentation from Occupy Their Desire, a research discussion in conjunction with the exhibition Our Haus at the Austrian Cultural Forum with art/activism collective Not An Alternative, political theorist Jodi Dean, and Occupy Wall Street organizer Matthew Smucker....
On January 21st Not An Alternative took part in "The Last Word", an event co-organized by Simon Critchley, Ph.D., Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy, the New School for Social Research, and Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and curator of...