Artists on Squatting [SOLD OUT]

Join us for a conversation with artists Fly, Ash Thayer, and Seth Tobocman as they discuss their practices and involvement in the squatter movement in New York City and beyond during the 1990s. This conversation will be moderated by Amy Starcheski, oral historian and author of Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City (University of Chicago Press, 2016).

Space is limited. Please RSVP to reserve your spot.

Physical space of the Interference Archive is ADA compliant.

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This panel discussion is part of a series of public programs around the exhibition Through Padlocks, Behind Barricades: Margaret Morton’s Glass House and the Squats of the Lower East Side.

Through Padlocks, Behind Barricades explores the squatter movement on New York’s Lower East Side (Loisaida) in the 1990s. It features Margaret Morton’s photographs of life in Glass House, an abandoned glass factory at the corner of Avenue D and East 10th Street. Several dozen squatters made the building their home for sixteen months, until police evicted them in the winter of 1994. The exhibition presents Morton’s in-depth portrait of one squat, with an array of printed materials exploring the debates that arose over squatters’ rights.

On view at Interference Archive from October 17, 2025 through January 5, 2026.