There Must Be an Alternative
Exhibition program, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria, October 9 - November 28, 2004
I was not involved in this exhibition. I think this program is material that Oliver Ressler sent when Sarah Cook and I were working on the exhibition that became The Art Formerly Known As New Media. TAFKANM will undoubtedly crop up multiple times in ephemerex, but broadly and crudely speaking - sorry Sarah - it was a more formalist show about the unformalist boundaries of so-called new media art.
This show of work by Bernadette Corporation, bureau d’etudes, Etcetera, Aeronout Mik, Ressler, and The Yes Men takes its title from a quote by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, “There is no alternative,” and its inspiration from the Anti-Globalization Movement.
In the age of Trumpism, it will be important to understand and monitor any implementation-in-practice of his own anti-globalism and critique and resist its racist, mysogynist, islamophopic, nativist appeals.
