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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Exhibitions

THIS IS NOT A LOCAL STRUGGLE

September 28, 2024 – January 31, 2025

To use something is to preserve it: this is the organizing principle of both Interference Archive and “This Is Not A Local Struggle,” a look at ephemera produced by the national Stop Cop City movement. We can study ourselves, and we can produce the knowledge as living culture, agit-prop, and material changes to the world. […]

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Events

Education Reading Group

Tuesday, May 13, 2025 @ 8:00 PM

The Education Reading Group is a place where we plan to share and discuss readings about transformative teaching, political pedagogy, engaging education, and the like. We will be meeting at 8 pm on Tuesday May 13th to read “Bloodchild” by Octavia Butler. It is the titular story from the collection “Bloodchild and Other Stories,” a pdf is here: Bloodchild If […]

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Collections Working Group Meeting

Wednesday, May 14, 2025 @ 7:00 PM

Join Collections Management working group for our May monthly meeting, hybrid at the archive and on Zoom. We will be discussing new donation requests, ongoing cataloging projects, and issues in the archive’s collections. New and seasoned volunteers welcome, no prior experience in archives or libraries necessary. Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84556756017?pwd=AxmnArDLYM85qrF0Yt10osClt1NQF2.1

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Zine Club

Monday, May 19, 2025 @ 6:30 PM

Please join us to make zines at Zine Club on the third Monday of every month! It is a casual, creative and welcoming space where you can make your own mini zine or work on an ongoing larger project. We have some limited supplies so please bring your own if you are able to.

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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 88 – Archiving Stop Cop City: This Is Not A Local Struggle

Hear from one of the organizers behind the Stop Cop City exhibition currently on view at Interference Archive (Sep 2024 – Jan 2025). We learn about the goals of the show, how it came together, and the important role that archiving has in the movement.  This episode was written, narrated and co-produced by Rob Smith. […]

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News & Updates
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News and Updates

Armed By Design Pre-Sale

We are excited to announce pre-sale orders are open for Armed By Design, a book forthcoming from Common Notions about internationalism, solidarity and the legacy of art of the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (OSPAAAL). Support this project by pre-ordering a copy of our forthcoming book!

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Art In Action, Across Borders: A Collective Zine of Solidarity

On Saturday, February 11, neighbors from all around New York City came to Interference Archive to participate in collaborative zine-making while listening and contributing to a live broadcast to Radio AlHara, coordinated with Musicians For Palestine. Download and read the zine we made together here, and listen to the mix: “This collective gathering to make […]

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