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Project Row Houses: Shattering the Concrete: Artists, Activists and Instigators |
Where this round really shines, though, is in the contrast between two installations: The Natural History Museum, presented in a collaboration between New York-based Not an Alternative and T.E.J.A.S., and the installation KARANKAWA CARANCAHUA CARANCAGUA KARANKAWAY by Nura Montiel and John Pluecker. Both ask for... |
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Ecco Homo? Occupy God! |
Cultural theorist Marc James Legerlooks at the Left's relationship to individualism vs. collectivism, and the ways in which Not An Alternative makes use of psychoanalytic concepts in our art/activism practice and Occupy-related strategies.... |
Interview with The Natural History Museum |
Why did an art collective start a natural history museum? And what relationship does it have to Liberate Tate, BP or not BP?, and other groups involved in the museum liberation movement? Find out, in this interview Not An Alternative co-founder did with City Atlas.... |
Playful Protesters Use Art to Draw Attention to Inadequacy of Paris Climate Talks |
By TJ Demos: An additional candidate for a Climate Games award would be The Natural History Museum, the work of the New York-based art collective Not An Alternative. Also bridging the divide between art and activism - itself a necessary emergency measure in today's climate-catastrophe... |
Artists and Activists Sing, Spill “Oil” in Anti–Fossil Fuel Protests at the Louvre |
The day’s actions are part of a broader, growing movement to liberate museums and cultural institutions from ties with the fossil fuel industry. Groups from all over the globe gathered earlier in the week to organize the performance, as well as share strategies and engage... |
Museums Challenged to Sever Ties With Climate Deniers |
Launched in September 2014, the mobile Natural History Museum is modeling what the role of a science museum can be when unbounded by corporate sponsorship and the strings that come attached with it. Its exhibitions — an iconic polar bear roaming amid the detritus of... |
Museums Must Take a Stand and Cut Ties to Fossil Fuels |
If there is to be a future for museums, we need to do away with the false promise of authoritative neutrality. We need our museums to function as both educators and yes, as advocates for a sustainable and equitable future. Only then can we equip... |
Should Oil Barons Like David Koch Be Funding Our Museums? |
'The Natural History Museum' became the newest member of the American Alliance of Museums this week. It's a multi-year project that retools the traditional model of taxidermied beasts and ancient anthropological history to present an evolving view of scientific challenges that doesn't whitewash politics. The... |
Clearing the Air: Artists Take on Corporate Influence in Natural History Museums |
Ahead of the People’s Climate March, Creative Time Reports Editor Marisa Mazria Katz speaks with the artist collective Not An Alternative about their Natural History Museum, a new project that confronts the unsavory influence of corporate cash on science institutions.... |
Art After Occupy: Climate Justice, BDS, and Beyond |
Occupy has always been best understood not as a noun naming a finite organization, but as an open-ended injunction to build what Not an Alternative calls“counter-power” to oppose the domination of Wall Street over the life of the planet. From the occupation of the Zuccotti... |
No-Space |
"We would like to destabilize authority to the point that it becomes a question as to what was done by activists and what was done by a “legitimate” or existing authority. And I think that can actually happen. Our politics are about shifting culture, or... |
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Not An Alternative |
Pushing against the structural limitations of new media and of existing institutional dynamics, Not An Alternative extend the work of other artists and activists who have successfully intervened in corporate, liberal democracy through symbolic action — actions which use a terrain of symbols and images... |