Not An Alternative is a Brooklyn-based arts collective and non-profit organization, founded by Beka Economopoulos, 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 with an eye towards social change and strategies for creative political intervention that involve creating participatory 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 hosts free lectures, screenings, panel discussions, workshops and artist presentations at their studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The space also consists of a production workshop, filming studio, video editing suite, and a shared office space (co-working) for freelancers and cultural producers.