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, November 12, 2024 @ 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. For our next gathering, we will be reading the first 8 chapters of Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope by bell hooks. The meeting will take place online. You can […]

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Events / Working Groups /

Audio Working Group November Meeting

Tuesday, November 19, 2024 @ 7:00 PM

In person and on Zoom. Check basecamp or email audio at interferencearchive dot org for the Zoom link.

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Events / Workshop

Fiber Friends of Falastin

Tuesday, November 26, 2024 @ 6:00 PM

Join us for a series of fiber arts meetups in support of Palestine—Fiber Friends of Falastin! This is an exploratory social activity for folks who have basic crochet, knitting, sewing, quilting, weaving, embroidery, (and more!) skills, and who are interested in building community at the intersection of textile-making and social movements.  We have yarn, some […]

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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 87: Transforming Food Systems

In this episode, we hear from Ora Wise, co-founder of FIG, a New York City-based collective working to transform the food system from within.  Over the last decade, food has been a professional, political, and creative outlet for Ora. Here, Ora reflects on her experiences connecting with Palestinian farmers in the West Bank, and, with […]

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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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