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Volunteering at Interference Archive
This is the latest installment of our series of short posts about what we do as volunteers here. This is an excerpt of a post shared by Rob Smith (you can read the whole thing HERE). If you’re interested in volunteering at Interference Archive, check out our website for info on how to get involved, or email info@interferencearchive.org. You can also support the amazing work of all our volunteers by making a financial donation.
I first found out about Interference Archive in the winter of 2015 through an article about the Documents from the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp exhibition. That piece led me down a rabbit hole of additional articles and websites about IA’s collection and its all-volunteer setup. Working as a lone librarian and archivist in a corporate setting for a living, almost everything about IA was antithetical to my own experiences. Intrigued, I sent an email about volunteering, and within a matter of days, had made my way to Gowanus to check out the Greenham exhibition myself.
It was there at my first meeting that I offered to work on an exhibition with the Art Handlers Alliance of New York. What began as a go-between position turned into a co-curatorial role, working intently with my two Alliance cohorts on researching early artist unions, titling the exhibition, writing press releases, and reaching out to artists. Helping to put together Just Cause : Bad Faith–Art Workers’ Activism and Organizing in New York and Beyond was an exuberant experience that not only taught me a great deal about the subject matter, but reminded me of the power of collaborative action.
Now I work regularly with Louise Barry and others to coproduce Audio Interference, learning the nuts and bolts of recording, editing, and mixing 15–25 minute podcasts from interviews and panel discussions. While the projects I’ve worked on at Interference Archive have varied, one thing has remained consistent: getting to work with others who are equally unafraid to create imaginative experiences for the public.
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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 by Louise Barry and Eric Triantafillou in March.
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We had an amazing crew for our Images of Resistance and Liberation // Imágenes de Resistencia y Liberación event last Saturday!
Mobile Print Power, UnLocal, participants in the New York State Youth Leadership Conference, and event attendees gathered and discussed youth-directed Know Your Rights campaigns and assessed the political graphics MPP and others created at Immigrant Youth Empowerment Conference, themed "Rooted in Liberation."
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Join our new Social Justice Book Club
A Social Justice Book Club is forming that will be meeting at Interference! We will focus on novels/essays/memoirs/nonfiction written by people of color that deal with themes of social justice, race, activism, and more.
Our first meeting is Sunday, June 26, 1–3pm , and we are reading the first 130 pages of The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander.
For more info and to RSVP, check our Facebook page. If you don't use Facebook you can contact Marny directly.
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Our Current Exhibition
Soñamos Sentirnos Libres
// Under Construction
Mayo 1- Sept. 5, 2016
Curaduria por Mobile Print Power
Interference Archive presents Soñamos Sentirnos Libres // Under Construction, a public exhibition and event series which features the work of Mobile Print Power, a multigenerational collective based out of Immigrant Movement International Corona, in Queens. The collective uses silkscreen printmaking and public projects to engage communities and explore social and cultural situations.
Interference Archive (El Archivo de Interferencia) presenta Soñamos Sentirnos Libres : Under Construction, una exposición pública y serie de eventos que destacan el trabajo y obra de Mobile Print Power, un colectivo multi-generacional radicado en IMI Corona (Immigrant Movement International Corona), en Queens. El colectivo usa el proceso de serigrafÃa para involucrar a comunidades y explorar situaciones sociales y culturales.
Read more on our website
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Our Comics, Ourselves opens to the University of Connecticut
June 14–August 22, 2016
The Archives & Special Collections at the University of Connecticut will host the first traveling installment of the exhibition Our Comics, Ourselves co-curated by Jan Descartes and Monica McKelvey Johnson. The exhibition premiered at Interference Archive in January, and we're really excited to see it move on to new locations. Our Comics, Ourselves features comics from the Interference Archive collection as well as private collections on loan. The exhibition includes comic books, graphic novels, DIY comics, and various comics paraphernalia primarily from the United States, 1945 to present. The works range from autobiographical to sheer fantasy, and explore feminism, abortion, racism, cultural identity, social activism, veterans of war, sexual abuse, immigration, public health, civil rights, gender and sexual identity, and more.
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