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Don't miss your last chance to see no. NOT. EVER.
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no. NOT EVER. at Interference Archive
Closing April 15, 2018
Interference Archive has partnered with Seattle-based collaborative If You Don’t They Will to host their installation of no. NOT EVER. alongside a selection of material from Interference Archive’s collection.
no. NOT EVER. is a multi-media, interdisciplinary installation that provides an anti-racist, anti-fascist framework for understanding the rise of white nationalism in the current moment. Depicting a wide-range of rural and suburban organizing strategies from the 1980’s and 1990’s that say “no. NOT EVER.” to white nationalism in the Pacific Northwest, this exhibition combines footage from archival interviews, interactive research stations and a community resource guide to function as a participatory teaching tool and an intergenerational bridge for saying no. NOT EVER. to white nationalism in a wide range of communities and contexts today. Visit our website for more information.
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Were you involved with Free University of New York?
Help us out with a research project!
Did you ever visit, hang out, study, teach, or go to a film screening or party at the Free University of New York (FUNY)? We would love to hear what you experienced there: what kind of space it was, what kind of people you met, what kind of politics you interacted with, and anything else. We're also interested in experiences with Free Space / Alternate U, which took from FUNY at the same location in 1968.
Please get in touch and help us collect personal accounts! Send us an email (info[at]interferencearchive[dot]org) if you have something to share. We are currently developing a project about the Free University of New York (FUNY) and the free university movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
FUNY was situated near Union Square on 14th street in a loft space. It opened in 1965 as a reaction to the ‘bankruptcy of the American educational system’ and was an interdisciplinary experiment in self-organised and free education.
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This week at Interference Archive:
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Empowerment Self-Defense Workshop
Sunday, April 15, 12pm – 1:30pm
This basic self-defense workshop covers strategies and safety plans for dealing with different levels of violence, emotional aspects of self-defense, and concrete steps we can take to help ourselves. Students of all skill and ability levels will learn basic physical-defense techniques including strikes, blocks and kicks; ways to get out of different grabs and holds, verbal exercises, and discussions about dealing with attackers who are strangers, acquaintances or intimates. Basic self-defense strategies include a full spectrum of responses, such as avoiding danger, yelling, getting away, tricking someone, defending with physical techniques, and seeking help afterwards.
Visit our website for more info.
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Bones of Contention: A Screening and Discussion with Filmmaker Andrea Weiss and Media Scholar Paul Julian Smith
Tuesday, April 17, 7pm
Please join filmmaker Andrea Weiss and Paul Julian Smith, Distinguished Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, for a screening and discussion of Weiss’s recent film, Bones of Contention (2017).
Bones of Contention is the first nonfiction feature film to explore the theme of historical memory in Spain, focusing on the repression of lesbians and gays under Franquismo. Lining the roads of Spain, masked by miles and miles of pine trees, are unmarked graves in which over a hundred twenty thousand victims of the Franco regime are buried.
The film weaves together two strands, the historical memory movement’s campaign to uncover the past, and the search for the hidden lives of lesbians and gays under Franco. These strands are connected through the figure of Spain’s most famous poet, Federico Garcia Lorca, who was killed by a right-wing firing squad in the first few weeks of the Spanish Civil War. The mystery of his missing remains and the debates over their significance provide the narrative spine of the documentary, as he has become the symbol today for both the historical memory movement and the LGBT movement.
The screening will be followed by a response from Paul Julian Smith, and a discussion with Andrea Weiss, moderated by María Edurne Zuazu. Visit our website for more info.
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Geofuturism, or learning to let go and love other worlds
a discussion of sociotechnical possibilities and life beyond fossil capitalism
Thursday, April 19, 7-9pm
Join us for the launch of Jesse Goldstein’s book Planetary Improvement: Cleantech Entrepreneurship and the Contradictions of Green Capitalism. Jesse will share a bit about his book, and then lead us through an interactive exercise and discussion about the many ways that our own sense of a good life is inextricably linked to unsustainable material and energetic flows. This is not meant to make us feel bad about ourselves, but to open up a collective imagining of truly radical possibilities for socially and ecologically vibrant futures. Visit our website for more info.
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Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map Preview
Saturday, April 21, 3pm
Every day in Brooklyn, over thirty unlicensed radio stations fire up their transmitters and take to the air. Historically known as pirates, they crowd onto an already packed FM dial, beaming transgressive culture-bearing signals into Caribbean, Orthodox Jewish and Latino neighborhoods.
At this event, radio producer David Goren will preview his Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map. Combining an interactive archival map with an audio-annotated essay, the Sound Map project explores the forces that drive these stations and the risks they take to remain on the air. Former pirate broadcaster DJ Cintronics will join David for a Q and A session. Visit our website for more info.
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La Lutte Continue…The Struggle Continues …Lotta Continua…La Lucha Continúa…
Exhibition Dates: April 29–May 26, 2018
Opening: Sunday, April 29, 2-8pm
An exhibition and event series about the 50-year-legacy of the global uprisings in 1968.
1968 was a time of explosive global protest. May ’68 might be synonymous with the general strike in France and the Situationists who inspired it, but mass uprisings and occupations that year reached every corner of the globe, with millions of people rising up to build power in pursuit of liberation on their own terms. From Italy to Mexico, from Japan to the United Kingdom, from the United States to Yugoslavia and well beyond, students and workers demonstrated in mass numbers, held strikes, and occupied their universities and factories. The state’s response to these anti-capitalist, anti-racist, anti-imperialist movements was one of brutal repression.
The composition, methods, goals, and achievements of these various movements were far from uniform, but often aligned. They centered on students and workers, rejected the old structures of unions and political parties, embraced intergroup solidarity and collective decision-making, and produced enduring art and propaganda. In studios and on the street, militants utilized time-honored methods of communication, but the generous use of screen printing by Paris’ Atelier Populaire [People’s Workshop] put the technique on the map as a key visual tool of global resistance movements.
The events of 1968 represent one of the last major instances of truly global protest. In the immediate aftermath, political structures and social relations transformed, and the uprisings’ successes and failures prompted, informed, and bolstered burgeoning feminist, LBGTQ, anti-colonial, and Black Power movements, setting the stage for the radical 1970s. Key tactics of liberation—and repression—were developed and shared in this period; fifty years on, the traces of 1968 remain visible in the battles still being fought today. 1968 speaks to the power of utopian visions to spur radical action, and to the necessity of reimagining what is possible.
Visit our website for more information.
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Help us out...we need a first aid kit!
We're low on medical supplies, and we could really use a first aid kit. Do you have a spare lying around? Let us know!
image: KingaNBM [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons
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