How does Antimart combat all the things you are against (imperialism, establishment, conventional, political, exploitation and apathy)?
SO: Awareness is the first step. So a lot of the things we do tend to provoke thought. Some of the shirts have quite a bit of information—graphs and technical information, things that you wouldn’t normally expect to find on a garment. A T-shirt is a much more functional canvas and it enables people to collect these pieces of art. RC: Clothing is such a powerful media. I think our work on paper holds the same idea. Where a sculpture or a painting is more one of a kind and there is a certain economic expense that goes into it, ink or prints on paper, or stencil work is something that can be available and affordable to a lot of people. [There is an] apolitical part, too. All these issues facing us—overpopulation, global warming—whether you vote republican or democrat, it is not going to change much. It will have to be a whole new network. This space and these people are an experiment in creating that, creating our own culture as much as possible. Why do you heart NY? RC: It is such a big
