Audio Interference 31: Squatting on the Lower East Side
"There were people in the buildings who modeled themselves after homesteaders and very much wanted to become homeowners, wanted the approval of the city, wanted to act respectable--and there were other people who were doing this as a critique of private property. There were people who were fixing up their space as if it was going to be their family home for generations, and there were people who just needed a temporary place to stay and were making the best of it." - Amy Starecheski
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Audio Interference 30: Rob Robinson
"People have knowledge, and they can put together stations that'll blow the doors off a government station...you get set up in the Amazon in Brazil, and you set up twenty dollars worth of equipment, you can blow a thousand miles out because there's nothing to interfere with that signal." - Rob Robinson
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Audio Interference 29: Paper Tiger TV
"We wanted it to have a kind of handmade look...it seemed like it would be better than a curtain and a potted plant, which had been the usual for a public access program." -- Deedee Halleck
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Audio Interference 28: Brooklyn Bail Fund and Close Rikers
"Bail is often described as incarceration's front door, because if you can't afford it, you're going to jail." - Peter Goldberg
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Audio Interference 27: Bradley Duncan
"I think that people are going to see reflected in this so much from their own life and from the contemporary world, more than we want there to be." - Brad Duncan.
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Audio Interference 26: Radio Free Gowanus
"There is a kind of magic to sitting down and knowing that if someone wanted to, they could hear my voice right now." - Mike Clemow
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Podcasters & Propagandists
To mark the occasion of the launch of Season 2 of Audio Interference, we hosted a panel discussion on the use of podcasts as propaganda and community building tools. You can listen to a recording of the event here: The event was held at Interference Archive on October 4, 2016. Panelists included: -Julie Golia, Director […]
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Audio Interference 25: Anticipating 2017
“People are afraid and disappointed and in some cases heartbroken, and it’s not enough anymore to sit at home and donate a small amount of money or buy a t-shirt. Coming out and being around your community and participating with them is necessary.” – Janina Larenas In this episode, we look at two projects mobilizing […]
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Audio Interference 24: Amplifier Foundation
“The main idea is to empower people who are observers, and provide them with tools to become participants in the political realm.” – Cleo Barnett, The Amplifier Foundation In this week’s episode, we take a close look at activist art produced by the Amplifier Foundation. We speak with Cleo Barnett from the Foundation about their […]
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Audio Interference 23: Brooklyn Housing Struggle
“I was born and raised here, and the fact that I went to college, I’m a working professional, and I can’t come back to my own community and buy a house, is a very big problem.” In this week’s episode, we look at the struggle for housing here in Brooklyn. We speak with Jean Stevens, […]
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Audio Interference 22: Silvia Federici
For this weeks episode, Charlie Morgan and Louise Barry interviewed Silvia Federici about Italian music in the 1960s and the Wages for Housework campaign. Music: “Prendiamoci La Città” by Pino Masi. “Per i morti di Reggio Emilia” by Fausto Amodei “O cancellier che tieni la penna in mano” “La ballata della Pinelli” by Pino Masi […]
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Audio Interference 21: UnLocal
“It was extremely traumatic…mothers didn’t send their kids to school, people didn’t go to work, because of these raids.” – Tania Mattos UnLocal is a New York-based legal services organization, which works with immigrant communities to provide legal representation, education, and advocacy. UnLocal’s collaboration with Mobile Print Power was included in the recent Interference Archive […]
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Audio Interference 20: Squatting in London
“There are fewer squatters because of state repression–because of the way the law has changed and the way the police enforce that law.” – Greg Ryan This episode is about the effects of UK housing law on the London squatters movement. Louise Barry talks to Myk Zeitlin of the Advisory Service for Squatters, former squatter […]
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Audio Interference 19: Lesbian Herstory Archives
“It’s people who are more familiar with archives who have more trouble figuring out how to negotiate this space…There’s one researcher I remember, she came in with this question about Adrienne Rich, so I mistakenly assumed that she wanted to see Adrienne Rich’s papers. And so I took down the box and she was just […]
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Audio Interference 18: Kevin Caplicki
“The image allows for the viewer to interpret it quickly. And I guess that’s what an advertiser tries to do–that’s what a propagandist tries to do.” – Kevin Caplicki In this episode, Brooke Shuman talks to Kevin Caplicki, one of the founders of Interference Archive and a member of Justseeds. Founded in 1998, Justseeds is […]
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Audio Interference 17: Diana Block
“We were subject to an FBI sting. We were placed under surveillance, and we were able to discover the surveillance and get rid of it, but then for the next nine years we were living underground.” – Diana Block In this episode, Lani Hanna speaks to Diana Block about her life as an activist, organizer, […]
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Audio Interference 16: Greg Sholette
“We were still coming off the afterglow, in many ways, of May ’68. There’s no question about that.” – Greg Sholette. In this episode, artist, writer, and activist Greg Sholette relates the history of the political art collective PAD/D, and how the collective used art to resist gentrification in 1980s New York. Sholette was interviewed […]
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Audio Interference 15: Solidarity, Distribution, Design
“I think about posters as a way of starting a conversation, but I don’t feel like we talk enough about how that conversation is started and where that conversation goes beyond talking.” — Kameelah Janan Rasheed On Nov 4, 2015, Interference Archive hosted a panel entitled Solidarity, Distribution, Design: The Poster Today, which explored the […]
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Audio Interference 14: Freedom Archives
"We're blessed with being the keepers of some very valuable stuff. It's not ours. It's intentional that this is part of the community and belongs to the community." - Claude Marks
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Audio Interference 13: Mobile Print Power
"Before we ask questions, we find out more about the problems that are happening. And sometimes we even go out and ask the people around us: what is something that you don't feel comfortable with? Where do you feel disconnected?...I think that's the way that we actually find political issues to do art with." - Stephanie Roman
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