Exhibitions – Interference Archive

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Call and Response: Songbooks to power the movement

Thursday, October 15, 2026 - Sunday, January 31, 2027

Why sing together? On the picket line, in a sit-down strike, at a rally or an occupation, songs are a way to connect with comrades and strengthen the message of a movement. Our new exhibition showcases the songbooks from our collection that come from the labor movement, civil rights movement, the socialist schools of the […]

Past Exhibitions

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an unbreakable human thread

Friday, June 12, 2026 - Wednesday, September 30, 2026

“It is difficult to ignore how the colonial history of Puerto Rico and the United States is always beginning again —it’s an infinite project that forces one to contend with the future, even in spaces of present and foreseeable violence. It is also a project in temporal looping whereby actions to redress the past […]

Exhibitions / Resurgence!

Resurgence Youth Movement, 1964-67: Teenrevolt, Surrealism, Anarchism

Thursday, January 15, 2026 - Saturday, May 30, 2026

Curated by Abigail Susik and Sean Lovitt with Interference Archive The Resurgence Youth Movement (RYM), an anti-racist and anti-imperialist anarchist affinity group active in the Lower East Side between 1964 and 1967, demanded nothing short of a “World Revolution of Youth.” Co-founded by Jonathan Leake (b. NY, 1946) and Walter E. Caughey (b. TX, 1943-d. […]

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Through Padlocks, Behind Barricades

Friday, October 17, 2025 - Monday, January 5, 2026

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 […]

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THIS IS NOT A LOCAL STRUGGLE

Saturday, September 28, 2024 - Friday, 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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Radical Nonviolence:100 Years of the War Resisters League

Thursday, May 16, 2024 - Friday, September 13, 2024

War Resisters League (WRL) and Interference Archive present a collection of material from the archive and WRL celebrating 100 years of the oldest secular pacifist organization in the United States. WRL produced street literature, posters, study guides, brochures, organizing manuals, books, and periodicals that focused on direct action, divestment, tax and draft resistance and ending the nuclear […]

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Palestine Lives! // Ten Years of Librarians and Archivists with Palestine

Saturday, November 11, 2023 - Friday, May 3, 2024

Join Interference Archive for two concurrent exhibitions on Palestinian resistance and solidarity! Palestine Lives! presents Palestinian liberation materials from the collection of Interference Archive through the themes of the Nakba, the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza, the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, cultural resistance, and international and Jewish solidarity. Together, these materials represent close to […]