Brooklyn based artist Kevin Cyr inspires new ways of thinking about habitats and housing, recycling and ecology, exploration and mobility with his latest project, Camper Kart. While the thought of sleeping in a pop-up camper fused with a shopping cart may not seem practical for most people, it certainly takes the idea of a mobile [...]
Not An Alternative recently teamed up with Picture The Homeless, Reclaim NYC and others to stage an intervention on the urban landscape. The collaboration involved the production and deployment of a homeless tent city in a vacant bank-owned lot in East Harlem.
As a diversion, we dressed up as a film production crew shooting a music [...]
It must be summer. We’ve got a grill, boom box, dog, drill, and assembly line of art-builders on the sidewalk out front. Not An Alternative is back to props production, and this time we’re teaming up with Picture The Homeless to architect a tent city.
The homeless population continues to escalate at the same time [...]
What’s the difference between a commissar’s propaganda and a Constructivist’s poetics of production? Not An Alternative’s Marco Deseriis reviews Gerald Raunig’s ‘Art and Revolution’ and ponders some of the gaps in his aesthetic-political theory.
