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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February 19, 2023 – May 21, 2023
This exhibition presents a series of posters that incorporate graphic and textual elements from printed matter linked to feminist struggles. The newspapers, books, flyers, and zines used for this project contain strategies to us help envision a feminist city beyond mainstream narratives.
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My Body/Our Rights: A Comics Slide Presentation and Discussion with Artists from World War 3 Illustrated #53
Thursday, June 15, 2023 @ 7:00 PM
Can comics get your laws off my body? MY BODY/OUR RIGHTS is a new collection of comics and graphic art in defense of abortion rights, healthcare, and respect for all identities. Artists, activists, and healthcare workers envision bodily autonomy in this hostile political climate. Testimony of our abortion experiences, before and after Roe. MY BODYis […]
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Wages for Art(work) Co-Working Session
Friday, June 16, 2023 @ 12:00 PM
Join us for a Wages for Art(work) Co-Working Session, where participants are invited to make art while Culture Push Associated Artist Quinlan Maggio works at their day job. During this hour-long session, participants can engage in any activity that is creatively generative for them, such as drawing, painting, collage, writing, sleeping, cooking, taking a walk, […]
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Film Screening: We Are Many, The Untold Story of the Biggest Protest in Human History
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 @ 6:30 PM
A film by Amir Amirani Produced by Amir Amirani and Co-Produced by Academy Award Nominee Immy Humes and Executive Produced by Omid Djalili, Pippa Harris, Waël Kabbani, Callum McDougall, Signe Byrge Sørensen Join us for a screening of We Are Many and a post screening discussion with Wael Kabbani (producer) and Amir Amirani (director and producer), RSVP link at the bottom […]
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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 86: Queer Soccer, “Being Together Everywhere”
Reb Ngu, one of our volunteers, interviews their teammate, Lua Ferreira, about their queer/trans pick-up soccer group, which Lua started in the summer of 2020. They talk about losing soccer as kids and recovering it as adults, the transforming effects of play, maintaining the group as a free and open space, and learning how to […]
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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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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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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.