What is Interference Archive?
The mission of Interference Archive is to explore the relationship between cultural production and social movements. This work manifests in an open stacks archival collection, publications, a study center, and public programs including exhibitions, workshops, talks, and screenings, all of which encourage critical and creative engagement with the rich history of social movements.
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Defend / Defund
October 8, 2022 – January 29, 2023
Exhibition opening: October 8, 3-8pm || Defend / Defund looks at resistance to policing and police brutality in the 20th and 21st centuries in the United States. This exhibition focuses on the work of Black organizers and the families of victims of police violence who have fought the often brutal occupation of their communities.
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Poster Sale!
Sunday, December 4, 2022 @ 1:00 PM
Over the past decade, we’ve had tens of thousands of posters donated to us, and even though we try to avoid receiving multiple copies—we don’t have space to keep duplicates—we find ourselves drowning in duplicates. We’ve shared extras with other archives, community spaces, and allied projects, but we sometimes still have an extra 5 or […]
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December Admin Working Group Meeting
Monday, December 5, 2022 @ 7:00 PM
Our monthly admin working group meeting happens virtually, and all are welcome to attend. Email info@interferencearchive.org for a link.
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December Education Working Group Meeting
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 @ 6:30 PM
The Education Working Group meets up to plan education-oriented events and to support class visits to Interference Archive. Email classes@interferencearchive.org to find out if we’ll be meeting in person or on zoom.
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Our Collections
Our collection includes tens of thousands of items created as part of social movements around the world, by the participants themselves: posters, flyers, publications, zines, books, T-shirts and buttons, moving images, audio recordings, and other materials. For us, making this material accessible to the public is an act of preservation, not only of the physical materials, but of the collective history of those struggling for social change. Learn more about our collections and set up a time to visit them in-person in the archive.
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Audio Interference 83: Sister Serpents and Generative Archiving
In this episode, volunteer Jen Hoyer explains how the archive is using donated materials to create an online presence for noteworthy, but digitally absent groups like Sister Serpents. But generating new materials and new discussions is not without a few risks. Stay tuned to find out more. To learn more about Sister Serpents, check out […]
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Celebrating Interference: an art project reflecting on our first decade
Since 2011, Interference Archive has existed as an all-volunteer, collectively organized archive of material produced by social movements around the world. Our work as an archive includes caring for material collections donated to us; providing access through regular open hours; and activating the archive through free exhibitions and programming. More broadly, our work as a […]
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aBOOlition zines
We spent some time on Halloween this year making zines that helped us think about what real terror looks like — how our communities, especially Black communities, are policed and surveilled by the state — and thinking through the community safety we can build through abolition. We hope you’ll download and make your own zines […]
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Exhibition Catalog: Walkout: A Brief History of Student Organizing
May 2020 marked the 50th anniversary of the Kent State and Jackson State massacres, which set off a historically large-scale student strike across the nation. With the anniversary as an entry point and frame of reference, this 96-page full color publication uses posters, buttons, pamphlets, flyers, zines, and more—to examine the broader scope of student movements that both led up to and followed those of May 1970.