Building for Us: Stories of Homesteading and Cooperative Housing

Exhibition Opening: October 17, 2019, 7-9pm
Exhibition Dates: October 17, 2019 to February 2, 2020

In the early 1970s, government disinvestment in New York City, coupled with widespread landlord abandonment, gave rise to squatting, urban homesteading, and other forms of self-help housing. The Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB) grew out of the self-help housing movement. This exhibition features the people who fought to turn vacant or neglected buildings into vibrant co-ops, illuminating the origins of New York City’s affordable housing cooperatives.

Like the Waters, We Rise: Climate Justice in Print, pt.1

November 21st, 2019–April 17th, 2020
Opening event: November 21st, 6–9pm
This part of this exhibition is not at Interference Archive

Artists have long been at the heart of this movement, finding bold, inspiring ways to help uplift struggles, reveal connections between climate and intersecting issues, build public support, and paint a picture of the world we are working to create. Like the Waters, We Rise tells the story of this expansive climate justice movement through a collection of print-based works developed as part of—or inspired by—occupations, direct actions, and mass mobilizations. Taken together, these works show the many terrains of struggle, points of intervention, and solutions of this continually expanding movement of movements.

Resistance Radio: The People’s Airwaves

July 11 – September 29, 2019
Opening reception: Thursday, July 11, 6-9pm

Our current exhibition focuses on the people, stations, and organizations that have battled to bring their defiant programming onto the airwaves, and particularly when these actions were in service of grassroots movements and/or community organizing.

Notes on Solidarity: Tricontinentalism in Print

Tuesday, September 10th through Saturday, November 2nd, 2019
NOT AT INTERFERENCE ARCHIVE!

Exploring a chapter of the anti-colonial struggles that unfolded after World War Two, Notes on Solidarity: Tricontinentalism in Print considers the role played by printed materials in the practice of Tricontinentalism.

Everybody’s Got A Right To Live: The Poor People’s Campaign 1968 & Now

April 18 – June 23, 2019
Opening reception: Thursday, April 18, 6-9pm

Described as Martin Luther King Jr.’s “last great dream,” the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968 was an ambitious movement to make poverty in the world’s richest nation visible and to demand justice for poor Americans. This exhibition provides a look at some of the visual culture of the original PPC, including photographs of marches and rallies, press coverage, and a contemporary public response to a mural in Resurrection City called the ‘hunger wall,’ in addition to showcasing the efforts of the new PPC and a portfolio of Justseeds posters created in solidarity with their actions.

Hi-Viz: Australian Political Posters 1979–2019

February 8 – April 14, 2019
Opening reception: Friday, February 8, 6-9pm

An exhibition of exquisite screen-printed posters—rarely seen in the U.S.—that provide a visual commentary of politics and life in Australia over the last four decades. Renowned for their high visibility, particularly in the 1980s with their saturated fluorescent colors, these posters describe the times and events that have engaged socially active artists throughout recent periods of major change.

Free Education! The Free University of New York, Alternate U, and Learning Liberation

October 11, 2018 – January 27, 2019
Opening reception: October 11, 6-9pm

Rooted in an examination of the history of the Free University of New York (FUNY), a 1960s experiment in radical education, this exhibition and event series reflects on the questions: What is a university? What does the university have that we want? What does the university have that we don’t want? How would a university look if we could build one from scratch?

Agitate! Educate! Organize! Agit Prop into the 21st Century

Exhibition Dates: June 12 — September 30, 2018
Exhibition Opening: Tuesday, June 12, 6-9pm

Our daily lives are saturated with information; we consume supposedly “neutral” media that implicitly supports existing power structures, yet we simultaneously fear “fake news” without critically analyzing the truths and biases that coexist in every message we see or hear. The reality is that all media has an agenda: for hundreds of years, people have used art, culture, graphics, performance, and design as central elements of social and political organizing across all realms of the political spectrum, to spread information and reimagine reality. This exhibition reflects historic and current uses of agitprop, or agitational propaganda, at the intersection of design and political organizing.

SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS WATCH: Documents from Interference Archive

Travelling Exhibition on view through December 16, 2018

Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH

Committed to creating space for open dialogue on current human rights issues, the Gund Gallery features this special exhibition of pamphlets, posters and newspapers produced for the The School of the Americas Watch (SOAW), a nonviolent grassroots movement and the largest Latin American solidarity organization in the United States, which strives to end U.S. militarization, oppressive U.S. policies and other forms of state violence in the Americas. Accompanied by SOAW activists Maria Luisa Rosal and Devora Gonzalez, this exhibition seeks to foster greater understanding and interest among campus and community members about topical issues surrounding the immigration crisis, border control, and US relations with Latin America.

La Lutte Continue…The Struggle Continues …Lotta Continua…La Lucha Continúa…

April 29–May 26, 2018
Opening Sunday, April 29, 2-8pm

An exhibition and event series about the 50-year-legacy of the global uprisings in 1968.

no. NOT EVER.

January 18–April 15, 2018

From January 18 – April 15, 2018, Interference Archive will partner with the Seattle-based collaborative If You Don’t They Will to host their installation of  no. NOT EVER. alongside a curated selection of  material from Interference Archive’s collection.

Take Back the Fight in Santa Cruz

February 2–28, 2018

We are excited to announce that our 2017 exhibition, Take Back the Fight: Resisting Sexual Violence from the Ground Up, is on display travel in Santa Cruz, CA at Felix Kulpa II Gallery.

Take Back the Fight: Resisting Sexual Violence from the Ground Up

PLEASE NOTE: This exhibition will be on partial view in Interference Archive’s new space, beginning November 16.  We are working on completing our buildout and re-opening the entire exhibition as soon as possible.  Stay tuned for more details. .

Resistance Across Time

Offsite exhibition with Gallery Affero at Window Gallery, Express Newark
Sep 20, 2017 – Feb 18, 2018

“Resistance Across Time” is a selection of posters from Interference Archive meant to remind viewers of the long history of social movements led by and in support of women’s rights, LGBTQ rights and the rights and safety of people of color. Social movements and the fight for justice, fairness and equality have being taking place for centuries of human history. In the U.S. the Civil Rights Movement of the sixties is often taught and discussed as the most defining series of actions and events towards social justice. Archives like Interference’s show us that the struggle is multifaceted, ceaseless, and ever evolving.

We Are All In This Together

OFF-SITE EXHIBITION
Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery at Purchase College
September 27 – November 10, 2017

We Are All in This Together, presented by Interference Archive with the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, uses the collection of Interference Archive and materials produced by the  Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative to explore artists’ solidarity with social movements.

Interference Archive at Ace Hotel Gallery: Fair Food Nation

May 4 – 31, 2017
This exhibition is located in the Gallery at Ace Hotel New York, 20 W 29th St, New York, NY 10001.

This exhibition explores the intersection of local, national and global food issues through a presentation of archival ephemera documenting food’s integral role in the pursuit of social, racial and economic justice.

Finally Got The News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970-1979

Exhibition and event series, January 26 – May 14, 2017
Exhibition opening: January 26th, 2017 7-10pm

Finally Got the News uncovers the hidden legacy of the radical left of the 1970s, a decade when vibrant social movements challenged racism, imperialism, patriarchy and capitalism itself. It uses original printed materials—from pamphlets to posters, flyers to record albums—to tell this politically rich and little-known story.

Commonwealth: Water For All

February 4 – July 30, 2017
At the Queens Museum

Highlighting the urgency of water issues, Commonwealth brings together We Are the Storm and Wellspring, two recent portfolios of artists’ prints developed by the Justseeds Artist Cooperative as well as a selection of materials on loan from Interference Archive which feature the now iconic graphics developed for the 2016 movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota.

Soñamos Sentirnos Libres in Portland, Maine!

We’re thrilled to announce that Soñamos Sentirnos Libres /Under Construction, our Summer 2016 exhibition in collaboration with Mobile Print Power, will be presented in a new iteration at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the Maine College of Art (MECA) in Portland, Maine.  Soñamos Sentirnos Libres: Making It Real will be presented from Feburary 1 | More »

Black Women/Black Lives

Travelling Exhibition: Black Women/Black Lives
Meier-Draudt Curatorial Classroom, Gund Gallery, Kenyon College
On view January 16 – February 5, 2017

We Are What We Archive

September 29, 2016 — January 15, 2017
Opening: Thursday, September 29, 7-10 pm

This fall, Interference Archive presents an exhibition highlighting some of the lesser-known objects in our collection. Made up of five distinct components, We Are What We Archive sheds light on electoral politics, North American solidarity with Africa, disability activism, queer identity, and information access.

Our Comics, Ourselves at the University of Connecticut

June 14 – August 22, 2016

The Archives & Special Collections at the University of Connecticut will host the first traveling installment of the exhibition Our Comics, Ourselves co-curated by Jan Descartes and Monica McKelvey Johnson. The exhibition premiered at Interference Archive in January, and we’re really excited to see it move on to new locations. Our Comics, Ourselves features comics from the Interference Archive collection as well as private collections on loan.

Soñamos Sentirnos Libres // Under Construction

May 1 – Sept 5, 2016
Opening May 1, 5-8pm

Soñamos Sentirnos Libres : Under Construction is a collaborative exhibition, highlighting the work of Mobile Print Power.

This cumulative exhibition will highlight old and new collaborations between Mobile Print Power and seven organizations in the form of workshops and events. These workshops will develop throughout its run, creating ongoing collaborative processes.

Esta exhibición cumulativa destacará viejas y nuevas colaboraciones entre Mobile Print Power y siete organizaciones con talleres y eventos. Estos talleres desarrollarán durante la duración de la exhibición, creando procesos colaborativos continuos.

Our Comics, Ourselves: Identity, Expression, and Representation in Comic Art

January 21 – April 17, 2016
Exhibition opening: January 21, 7-10pm

The exhibition Our Comics, Ourselves: Identity, Expression, and Representation in Comic Art presents the graphic stories that describe the complexity and diversity of our collective experience, and examines the social and historical contexts within which they emerged. This exhibition includes includes comic books, graphic novels, DIY comics, and various comics paraphernalia primarily from the United States, 1945 to present.

Just Cause : Bad Faith – Art Workers’ Activism and Organizing in NYC and Beyond

December 3 – December 31, 2015
Opening Reception Thursday, December 3rd 6:00-9:00pm

Art Handlers Alliance of New York and Interference Archive are delighted to present an exhibition of articles, ephemera, and artworks that collectively address a history of cultural workers’ organizing efforts and demonstrations as well as the recent investigations and concerns of artists and individuals working within the culture industry.

Armed by Design/El Diseño a las Armas

September 16–November 29, 2015
Opening Wednesday Sept. 16, 7–10pm

Interference Archive presents Armed By Design: Posters and Publications of Cuba’s Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (OSPAAAL), a public exhibition and event series which features the graphic design production of OSPAAAL. Armed By Design will highlight the intersection of graphic design and political solidarity work in post-revolution Cuba through the lens of OSPAAAL’s output.

if a song could be freedom…Organized Sounds of Resistance

June 25 – September 6, 2015
Opening Thursday June 25
7-10 pm

Music has been at the core of hundreds of political and social struggles across the globe. This exhibition features the picture sleeves of over 200 political recordings that will expose the broad scope of the intersection of music and politics. In addition, flyers, lyric sheets, buttons, publications, and other ephemera are on display. A series of programs will run throughout the run of exhibition, where we will actively and collectively listen to—and discuss—how music has shaped the manners in which we understand ourselves in the past, present, and into the future.

Designing Black Power

Travelling exhibition at the Ace Hotel, New York City
November 3 – 30, 2015

We Won’t Move: Tenants Organize in New York City

March 26 – June 15, 2015
Opening March 26, 2015 7-10pm

Interference Archive presents We Won’t Move: Tenants Organize in New York City, an exploration of collective action by NYC tenants for decent and affordable housing from the 1940s to the present.

Documents from the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp

December 5 2014- March 1, 2015
Opening December 5, 7-9pm

Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp was a 19-year anti-nuclear protest and encampment at the U.S. Military Base at Greenham Common, Berkshire County, England. This exhibition and event series, organized as a mother/daughter collaboration between Susan Jahoda and Emma Jahoda-Brown, assembles accounts of the comings and goings and daily lives of a diverse group of women at Greenham primarily over a nine year period. Photographs, film, artifacts and sound are brought together to reveal a complex view of a largely invisible history.

Self-Determination Inside/Out

September 11 – November 16, 2014

Opening: Thursday, September 11, 7-10pm

Interference Archive presents Self-Determination Inside/Out, a comprehensive exhibition and public program series featuring the cultural materials produced by incarcerated people and their allies. Ranging from the Attica Rebellion to political prisoners, AIDS education to prisoners-as-laborers, the struggles of incarcerated women and queer people to the current wave of hunger strikes in prisons and detention centers across the country, these materials fundamentally recast the history of the prison-industrial complex.

We Are Who We Archive: an exhibition of new acquisitions

May 9, 2014 – August 3, 2014

Opening: Friday, May 9, 7-10pm

 We Are Who We Archive brings together a selection of donations acquired over the past two years, gifted by friends of Interference Archive.  Rather than focus on a specific movement or idea, We Are Who We Archive serves as a portrait of a growing archive and highlights the role of individuals in preserving collective history.

La Autonomia es la Vida, la Sumisión es la Muerte: A Celebration of 20 Years of the Zapatistas and the Autonomous Communities of Mexico

May 22 – August 3, 2014

Opening: Thursday, May 22, 7–10pm

Interference Archive presents La Autonomía es la Vida, la Sumisión es la Muerte (Autonomy is Life, Submission is Death) a graphic art portfolio, produced by Convergencia Grafica MALLA and Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative. This exhibition honors the 520 years of struggle of the indigenous peoples of Mexico against genocide and for self-determination and autonomy through a celebration of the 20 years of the Zapatista movement’s resistance against the Mexican state and global capitalism.

Sexing Sound: Aural Archives and Feminist Scores

Traveling Exhibition at the James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City

February 6–March 8, 2014

Serve the People: The Asian American Movement in New York

December 5, 2013 – March 23, 2014 (extended!)

Opening: Thursday December 5, 7-10pm

Serve the People: The Asian American Movement in New York charts a history of Asian American activism, organizing, and cultural production in the 1970s, the first exhibition to focus on New York as a center of this national phenomenon.

This is an Emergency!

October 1- November 24, 2013

A project organized by Meredith Stern  and Molly Fair about reproductive rights and gender justice.

Alien She

Traveling Exhibition at Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

September 21, 2013 – February 16, 2014

Strike Then, Strike Now!

An Exhibition and Event Series about Work Stoppage

May 3- July 31, 2013
Opening Reception: May 3rd
7-10 pm

Book Bloc!

Shields from CUNY and Cooper Union

April 2–24, 2013

Opening Reception:
Tuesday, April 2
7–10 pm

Rebel Newsprint: The Underground Press

Curated by Sean Stewart

February 21 – March 24, 2013

Opening Reception:
Thursday, February 21
7 – 10 pm

Our Collection: A Sampler

A sampler of movement ephemera from our open-access collection

January 16 – February 17, 2013

Opening Reception:
Wednesday, January 16
7 – 10 pm

Activation

Traveling Exhibition at Silent Barn, Brooklyn

January 29 – March 15, 2013

Guns vs. Butter

Traveling Exhibition at Future Tenant, Pittsburgh

December 7, 2012 – January 6, 2013

Persistence of Dreams/La Persistencia de los Sueños

Sublevarte Colectivo Retrospective: 1999  – 2012

November 16 – December 31, 2012

Opening Reception:
Friday, November 16
7 – 10 pm

RadioActivity! Antinuclear Movements from Three Mile Island to Fukushima

A collaborative exhibition between Interference Archive and Todos Somos Japon

October 4 – November 4, 2012

Opening Reception:
October 4
7 – 10 pm

Àvenir [Future]

A collaborative exhibition with Interference Archive and Ècole de la Montagne Rouge

August 9 – September 20, 2012

Opening Reception:
Thursday, August 9
7 – 10 pm

SQEK Library

A collaborative exhibition between Squatting Europe Collective, House Magic, and Interference Archive

Friday, February 24 – April 1, 2012

Opening Reception:
Friday, February 24
6 – 10 pm

Grand Opening and Punk Feminisms Exhibition

Celebrate Interference Archive’s first public event

Opening Reception:
Friday, December 16, 2011
6:30 – 9:30 pm

Resistance Radio: The People’s Airwaves

July 11 – September 29, 2019
Opening reception: Thursday, July 11, 6-9pm

Our current exhibition focuses on the people, stations, and organizations that have battled to bring their defiant programming onto the airwaves, and particularly when these actions were in service of grassroots movements and/or community organizing.

Everybody’s Got A Right To Live: The Poor People’s Campaign 1968 & Now

April 18 – June 23, 2019
Opening reception: Thursday, April 18, 6-9pm

Described as Martin Luther King Jr.’s “last great dream,” the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968 was an ambitious movement to make poverty in the world’s richest nation visible and to demand justice for poor Americans. This exhibition provides a look at some of the visual culture of the original PPC, including photographs of marches and rallies, press coverage, and a contemporary public response to a mural in Resurrection City called the ‘hunger wall,’ in addition to showcasing the efforts of the new PPC and a portfolio of Justseeds posters created in solidarity with their actions.

Hi-Viz: Australian Political Posters 1979–2019

February 8 – April 14, 2019
Opening reception: Friday, February 8, 6-9pm

An exhibition of exquisite screen-printed posters—rarely seen in the U.S.—that provide a visual commentary of politics and life in Australia over the last four decades. Renowned for their high visibility, particularly in the 1980s with their saturated fluorescent colors, these posters describe the times and events that have engaged socially active artists throughout recent periods of major change.

Free Education! The Free University of New York, Alternate U, and Learning Liberation

October 11, 2018 – January 27, 2019
Opening reception: October 11, 6-9pm

Rooted in an examination of the history of the Free University of New York (FUNY), a 1960s experiment in radical education, this exhibition and event series reflects on the questions: What is a university? What does the university have that we want? What does the university have that we don’t want? How would a university look if we could build one from scratch?

Agitate! Educate! Organize! Agit Prop into the 21st Century

Exhibition Dates: June 12 — September 30, 2018
Exhibition Opening: Tuesday, June 12, 6-9pm

Our daily lives are saturated with information; we consume supposedly “neutral” media that implicitly supports existing power structures, yet we simultaneously fear “fake news” without critically analyzing the truths and biases that coexist in every message we see or hear. The reality is that all media has an agenda: for hundreds of years, people have used art, culture, graphics, performance, and design as central elements of social and political organizing across all realms of the political spectrum, to spread information and reimagine reality. This exhibition reflects historic and current uses of agitprop, or agitational propaganda, at the intersection of design and political organizing.

SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS WATCH: Documents from Interference Archive

Travelling Exhibition on view through December 16, 2018

Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH

Committed to creating space for open dialogue on current human rights issues, the Gund Gallery features this special exhibition of pamphlets, posters and newspapers produced for the The School of the Americas Watch (SOAW), a nonviolent grassroots movement and the largest Latin American solidarity organization in the United States, which strives to end U.S. militarization, oppressive U.S. policies and other forms of state violence in the Americas. Accompanied by SOAW activists Maria Luisa Rosal and Devora Gonzalez, this exhibition seeks to foster greater understanding and interest among campus and community members about topical issues surrounding the immigration crisis, border control, and US relations with Latin America.

La Lutte Continue…The Struggle Continues …Lotta Continua…La Lucha Continúa…

April 29–May 26, 2018
Opening Sunday, April 29, 2-8pm

An exhibition and event series about the 50-year-legacy of the global uprisings in 1968.

no. NOT EVER.

January 18–April 15, 2018

From January 18 – April 15, 2018, Interference Archive will partner with the Seattle-based collaborative If You Don’t They Will to host their installation of  no. NOT EVER. alongside a curated selection of  material from Interference Archive’s collection.