Eyebeam is pleased to announce Other Options, a traveling and evolving exhibition of artists’ projects that re-interpret, alter, and create infrastructure that affect their everyday lives. The exhibition is curated by Chicago-based collective InCUBATE (The Institute for Community Understanding Between Art and the Everyday,) and features work by Eyebeam senior fellow Geraldine Juárez and alum Adam Bobbette, among others. Other Options will be on display at Eyebeam September 18 – October 11.

While the model of a nonprofit 501© 3 corporation has traditionally been considered an appropriate mode of support, a number of flaws and contradictions are becoming apparent in the way that these organizations are made to function within society, both individually and as a collective “Nonprofit Industrial Complex.” In an attempt to explore the nature of such flaws and contradictions in the nonprofit system, Other Options asks the question: How does the current matrix of specific regulations and compliances to which nonprofit organizations are forced to adhere, affect the creative output, imagination, and flexibility of such organizations?

Other Options is a series of exhibitions and programs investigating the ways in which artists are dealing with the current climate of support for cultural production, and have been taking place across the United States since Oct. 2007 (the show has traveled to Chicago; Grand Rapids, MI, Pittsburgh; and Syracuse). By increasingly incorporating new models of resource allocation, community building, funding structures and forms of exchange as part of their artistic production, these artists are creating new possibilities for the role of contemporary art in an everyday context.

Other Options: New York Artists Forays (New York): www.forays.org Josh Greene (San Francisco): www.josh-greene.com Material Exchange (Chicago): www.material-exchange.org Mikey Merrill (Portland, OR): www.kmikeym.com Phill Orr & Ryan Thompson (Urbana, IL): www.joinre.com Robin Hewlett & Carolyn Lambert (Pittsburgh, PA): http://robinhewlett.com Geraldine Juárez (Mexico City/NYC): www.tandatanda.org Joanna Spitzner (Syracuse, NY): www.jsfoundation.org