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Images of Resistance and Liberation // Imágenes de Resistencia y Liberación (with Mobile Print Power, UnLocal, and NYSYLC )
Saturday, June 18th, 12-3pm (at Interference Archive)
This community conversation and hands-on workshop will explore a variety of topics affecting the lives of undocumented students, artists, and families, including Advanced Parole, which grants permission for certain immigrants without a valid visa to re-enter the United States after traveling abroad. Participants will be introduced to UnLocal’s Know Your Rights Campaign and MPP’s involvement in the Know Your Rights poster production. We will also recap the collaborative workshop that Interference Archive, MPP, and NYSYLC led at IYECon 2016, Drawing From the Archives: Liberation & Collaborative Design, and we will print images created during the IYECon workshop based on the conference theme, “Rooted in Liberation.â€
Esta conversación comunitaria y taller explorará una variedad de temas afectando las vidas de estudiantes, artistas, y familias indocumentad@s, incluyendo “Advanced Parole,†que da permiso a algunos migrantes sin visas válidas a volver a los Estados Unidos después de viajar al exterior. L@s participantes recibirán información sobre la campaña de Conozca Sus Derechos de UnLocal, y sobre la participación de MPP en la producción del cartel sobre el mismo tema. También haremos un reporte sobre el taller colaborativo que hicieron Interference Archive, MPP, y NYSLC en el IYECon 2016, Drawing from the Archives: Liberation & Collaborative Design – Sacando del Archivo: Liberación y Diseño Colaborativo, e imprimiremos imágenes creadas durante el taller de IYECon inspirados por el tema de la conferencia, “Rooted in Liberation – Enraizad@s en Liberación.â€
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Babylon Falling Newspaper Collection
We have very exciting news to share: this Sunday, we went over to Sean Stewart’s apartment in Brooklyn and picked up his “Babylon Falling Collection†of underground press and related ephemera. We’re talking twenty-three flat archive boxes, seven binders, one large banker’s box, and two giant plastic tubs filled with extensive holdings of underground newspapers (The East Village Other, Berkeley Barb, Rat Subterranean News, The Black Panther, The Realist, The Guardian, and many, many more), underground comix (including issues of It Ain’t Me Babe, Wimmin’s Comix, Zap, and The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers), and counter-cultural magazines (including one of the most complete collections of Ramparts magazine we’ve ever seen). You can read more about it on our blog.
We need help organizing this collection, so if you're interested, please get in touch! We also need about $500 to purchase archival storage boxes both for a portion of this collection, and to bring the rest of our existing newspapers into line with Sean's extremely effective organizing method. Consider a small donation to help us preserve these papers so that we'll all be able to use them well into the future:
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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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New Podcast: 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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Come Join us on June 18th for a Cataloging Party!
IA is now hosting bi-weekly cataloging parties! A bunch of us get together with laptops every other Thursday evening and work on entering some of our amazing posters, pamphlets, buttons, and record albums into our catalog so that they can be searchable online. The next cataloging party is Saturday, June 18th, 2–5pm. BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop)!
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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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