Past Exhibitions
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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 […]
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(take-away archives)
Sunday, February 19, 2023 - Sunday, 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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Defend / Defund
Saturday, October 8, 2022 - Sunday, January 29, 2023
Exhibition opening: October 8, 3-8pm || Defend / Defund looks at resistance to policing and police brutality in the 20th and 21st centuries in the United States. This exhibition focuses on the work of Black organizers and the families of victims of police violence who have fought the often brutal occupation of their communities.
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Our Streets! Our City! Self-determination and Public Space in NYC
Saturday, May 21, 2022 - Monday, September 5, 2022
Our Streets! Our City! explores various struggles over public space in New York City since the 1960s, and engages with past and contemporary strategies used by activists to reclaim or reimagine urban infrastructures. This exhibit is a tribute to those who have resisted top-down city-planning processes; its purpose is to honor collective fights against displacement, privatization, […]
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