Not An Alternative is an arts collective with 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 organizing. All these efforts are enacted through the occupation and redeployment of popular vernacular, semiotics, and memes. Not An Alternative’s most recent, ongoing project is The Natural History Museum, a mobile and pop-up museum that highlights the socio-political forces that shape nature, yet are excluded from traditional natural history museums.
Yates McKee is an art critic based in New York. His writing has appeared in October, Grey Room, South Atlantic Quarterly, and The Nation. He is co-editor of the anthology Sensible Politics: The Visual Cultures of Nongovernmental Activism, and the author of Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition.
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Part of Climate Justice Now! Art and Environment Today, a series of free Monday/Wednesday evening lectures, featuring a diverse array of guest speakers, all leaders in the area of climate justice and cultural politics, which will explore the current imperatives for making a just transition to a post-carbon future. Curated by professor T.J. Demos.
Free and open to the public.
Mondays and Wednesdays at 5:00pm.
Parking $3
Presented by the Arts Division, History of Art and Visual Culture Department, and Arts Dean’s Fund for Excellence.