Hello!

Friends of the Interference Archive,

We need your help!

We're excited that our archive has now been open for seven very active months. In that short time we have held two exhibitions, four film screenings, a poster critique, a design charrette, and multiple public talks—all free. We are regularly open to the public on Sunday afternoons, have installed a semi-professional A/V system, and have our first intern working away on finding aids for the collection. We've been busy.



As many of you know, the Interference Archive was a dream of Josh MacPhee and Dara Greenwald that found its home this past winter in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Interference Archive (IA) grew out of their personal collections of political art. The Interference Archive explores the relationship between cultural production and social movements. This work manifests in public exhibitions, a study center, talks, screenings, publications, workshops, and an on-line presence. The archive consists of many kinds of objects that are created as part of social movements: posters, flyers, publications, photographs, moving images, audio recordings, and other printed matter. Through their programming, IA uses this cultural ephemera to animate histories of people mobilizing for social transformation.

Currently IA is staffed by Josh, Molly Fair, and Kevin Caplicki, among others. Besides maintaining and operating the Archive, Josh, Molly and Kevin are paying the rent and expenses out of pocket. We are writing to ask you to help keep this work alive by securing the future of this project. Our goal is to 'buy' Interference Archive one year’s time. If we can support IA for one year, the Archive can obtain a non-profit ­ 501C3 status umbrella (which we are already actively working towards), and also prove to funding agencies that they have had one year's worth of events, so that they can apply for grants from state and federal agencies.

In order to do this we need to raise around $20,000. We propose a membership model in which people contribute a regular monthly amount. All funds will go directly to keeping Interference Archive operational. If we can get 200 people to become members of the archive, at $10 per month, we¹ll have exceeded this goal. We already have almost 40 supporters, and would love to find 60 more, which should reach our goal.

Please help us keep Interference Archive open and active!

The easiest way is to become a monthly sustainer. You can sign up HERE.

If you would like to write a check, for now it can be made out to "Josh MacPhee," and sent to the archive: Interference Archive, 131 8th St. #4, Brooklyn, NY 11215. We'll also accept cash, drop by the archive sometime!

And spread the word that the archive is open to the public. Currently our hours are every Sunday, between 12pm-5pm, and now every Tuesday, 11am-4pm, or email to set up a site visit: interferencearchive@gmail.com.

With respect and appreciation,
Josh, Kevin, and Molly for the Archive

Coming up at Interference:

ÀVENIR [Future]

Opening Reception:
August 9th, 7-10pm

The École de la Montagne Rouge (EDLMR)—an initiative of young, socially-engaged artists who are mainly from the bachelor of graphic design program at École de Design - UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal)—is collaborating with the Interference Archive to experiment with ways of using the spaces of the gallery as sites for gathering, place-making, production and exchange on students protest in Québec and all around the world. Through its actions, thoughts and research in the area of graphics, EDLMR offers a unique aesthetic approach to revolutionary movements and an alternative way of helping the Quebec Spring makes it mark.

CAN ART STOP A WAR?

THE POWER OF POSTERS TO EDUCATE, AGITATE, AND INSPIRE

A Visual Presentation by Carol A. Wells:
August 15th, 7pm

From the Russian Revolution to the current wars, posters have been central to winning the hearts and minds of the people who pay the costs of war with their lives and their tax dollars. This presentation will show how posters have been used to promote and oppose wars throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, focusing on posters that oppose diverse U.S. interventions. Carol Wells is an activist, art historian, the founder and executive director of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. (image: Amerika Is Devouring Its Children, Jay Belloli, Silkscreen, 1970)

SIGNAL:02

Book Release Party:
August 23rd, 7-10pm

Join Alec Dunn and Josh MacPhee as they celebrate the release of the second issue of Signal, A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture. Signal is an ongoing book series dedicated to documenting and sharing political graphics, creative projects, and cultural production of international resistance and liberation struggles. Signal digs deep through our common history to unearth this often-overlooked but essential role art and culture have played in struggles the world over.