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Thank you!
Our hearts are full. Over the course of thirty days we received continued reminders that Interference Archive holds a special place in the lives of many. While support of IA's growth was shown in so many forms (volunteering, donating materials, sharing our campaign, spreading the word about our work through articles and blogs), 450 people stepped forward to raise more than $37,000 for our new space.
You all came together to make the next era of Interference Archive a possibility. and we are so excited for the next decade of learning, organizing, and building with you. We are so grateful. It has always been the case that this space is driven by volunteers and a community of folks that seek to make the world better. This continues to be true.
Over the coming two weeks our crew of volunteers--this means you too if you'd like to help!--will be setting up shelves, arranging our collection, and reinstalling our exhibition. Doors will officially open in early November and we'll share that date with you very soon. In the meantime, read below for info on how we're keeping busy with exhibitions and events elsewhere, and send us an email if you're interested in helping with our setup efforts at the new location.
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Current Offsite Exhibitions:
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Resistance Across Time
Offsite exhibition with Gallery Affero at Window Gallery, Express Newark
Sep 20, 2017 – Feb 18, 2018
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 7th, 3pm – 5pm
“Resistance Across Time” is a selection of posters from Interference Archive, curated by Evonne M. Davis of Gallery Aferro, meant to remind viewers of the long history of social movements led by and in support of women’s rights, LGBTQ rights and the rights and safety of people of color. Social movements and the fight for justice, fairness and equality have being taking place for centuries of human history. In the U.S. the Civil Rights Movement of the sixties is often taught and discussed as the most defining series of actions and events towards social justice. Archives like Interference’s show us that the struggle is multifaceted, ceaseless, and ever evolving.
Movements often help us develop and employ the language that we use to describe our experiences and desires, that language is developed within the context of time, community and people, and that language changes to reflect the charging atmosphere and evolving contexts that it functions to serve.
This exhibition is created to honor the women, LGBTQ people and People of Color who have led the way in the past, often at great personal sacrifice and high cost, while also encouraging next generation social justice warriors to learn from our history while they develop and create new methodologies and practices to try and carry us forward toward a better future for all people.
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We Are All In This Together
OFF-SITE EXHIBITION
Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery at Purchase College
September 27 – November 10, 2017
EXHIBITION OPENING (Updated time!):
September 27, 2017: lecture at 5pm, reception 6-8pm
We Are All in This Together, presented by Interference Archive with the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, uses the collection of Interference Archive and materials produced by the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative to explore artists’ solidarity with social movements.
There is a long tradition of artists as organizers. Artists participate in social justice through their creativity communicating demands and goals with visual works, with their labor in producing multiples, and through creating consumable items for fundraising. We Are All in This Together illustrates the moments when artists have rolled up their sleeves to do the dirty work of organizing. More than providing political commentary or personal response to topical events, many cultural workers have used their trade and skillset in solidarity with social, economic and environmental struggles. This exhibit will use Justseeds prints that were produced in solidarity with recent struggles, including Standing Rock, the Wisconsin uprising, and Boycott Divestment & Sanctions, along with ephemera produced by those social movements. Read more on our website.
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Watch for our exhibition re-opening!
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Take Back the Fight: Resisting Sexual Violence from the Ground Up
Exhibition Dates: June 1 – September 3, October - December 2017
Recovery from trauma after sexual assault is often imagined as a personal, internal experience. However, an exclusive focus on individual narratives of victimization and healing can obscure decades of collective, grassroots struggle by and on behalf of sexual assault survivors. Rape is not an isolated experience, but a pervasive form of violence that acts in concert with oppression in the workforce, at home, and in medical and academic institutions--as well as with structural racism, homophobia, transphobia, and capitalism. Likewise, organizing against sexual violence is intimately linked to struggles for liberation in both public and private spheres. The history of organizing against sexual assault and rape helps us to understand feminist resistance to violence as a collective struggle against patriarchy, and sexual and gender violence as a function of state violence.
Interference Archive’s summer 2017 exhibition Take Back the Fight: Resisting Sexual Violence from the Ground Up focuses on organized responses to gender and sexual violence, highlighting the ways individuals and communities have developed creative and powerful grassroots and non-institutional justice and healing practices. A collaboration with Lesbian Herstory Archives, Take Back the Fight narrates intersecting histories of activism by and on behalf of survivors of sexual violence and their communities.
This exhibition will situate multiple histories of resistance to sexual violence within a broader narrative of feminist, anti-racist, and queer activism. It will present strategies of resistance, both historical and contemporary, looking at the ways in which activists have sought justice outside of the courts and the criminal justice system. Ultimately, Take Back the Fight will demonstrate the crucial role of grassroots organizing in the struggle against sexual violence and the importance of this activism as a tool of both healing and resistance. Read more on our website.
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