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Have you had a chance to check out our current exhibition yet?
It's an Artforum Critics Pick! The show is only up for two more weeks; feel free to come by during our regular open hours, or check out some of the events below that will give you a chance to engage with the themes this exhibition deals with.
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sub.Media: ITEOTWAWKIAIFF retrospective
Wednesday, May 3rd, 7pm
Last December, sub.Media shocked their fans, when they announced that they were pulling the plug on their flagship project “It’s the End of the World as We Know it and I Feel Fine” or ITEOTWAWKIAIFF. For ten fuc&#n years the Stimulator (ITEOTWAWKIAIFF’s foul-mouthed news anchor) has been bringing us news and commentary from what he calls the Muthaf*#in resistance, taco recipes and hiphop driven riot porn mashups. Join us of a retrospective of the best clips from this anarchist video project, and speak directly with one of the show’s creators, Frank Lopez.
Questions? Visit our website for more info!
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Film screening: Finally Got the News
Saturday, May 6th, 7pm
Produced in 1970 as a collaboration between Newsreel filmmakers and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Finally Got the News paints a picture of race, class, and labor issues in Detroit while exemplifying the ways cinema at the time was used by filmmakers as a means for liberation and a tool for worker struggles.
This film screening accompanies Interference Archive’s public exhibition of the same name. We will be joined by Stewart Bird, one of the Newsreel filmmakers involved in this production, as well as by Chris Robé, author of “Detroit Rising: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Newsreel, and the Making of Finally Got the News” (Film History, vol. 8 no. 4, Winter 2016) and Breaking the Spell: A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerrillas, and Digital Ninjas (PM Press, 2017).
This screening is free and open to the public; no RSVP necessary. For more information, please visit our website.
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Film Screening: El Pueblo Se Levanta and A Luta Continua
Sunday, May 14th, 7pm
Celebrate the closing of our current exhibition with us as we watch these two amazing films!
Produced in 1971, El Pueblo Se Levanta (50 minutes) portrays the racial discrimination, deficient community services, and poor education and job opportunities faced by Puerto Rican communities in East Harlem. It is narrated by the people it portrays, capturing the compassion and militancy of the Young Lords as they implemented their own health, educational, and public assistance programs and fought back against social injustice.
We will watch this in conversation with A Luta Continua (1972) (32 minutes), which records Mozambican guerillas fighting colonialism. Filmed by African American lawyer Robert Van Lierop in solidarity with FRELIMO, A Luta Continua gives voice to similar demands for health care, education reform, and gender equality that we hear from the Young Lords in El Pueblo Se Levanta. Together, these films provide us with a global perspective on anti-colonial struggle of the 1970s and they give voice to material we see on the walls as part of Interference Archive’s current exhibition, Finally Got the News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970-1979.
This screening is free and open to the public; no RSVP necessary. For more information, please visit our website.
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Travelling Exhibition at the Ace Hotel:
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Interference Archive at Ace Hotel Gallery: Fair Food Nation
May 4 – 31, 2017
This exhibition is located in the Gallery at Ace Hotel New York, 20 W 29th St, New York, NY 10001.
Who plants, harvests and prepares your meals? And afterwards, who does the dishes? Since 2012, fast food workers across the United States have been demanding a living wage through the Fight for $15 campaign, echoing the struggles of the United Farm Workers who, since the 60s, have led efforts to organize agricultural workers. The Black Panthers, understanding that food is an essential prerequisite for liberation, started the Free Breakfast for School Children Program which presaged today's free breakfast programs at public schools across the country. Similarly, liberation movements around the world — from Angola’s Movimento Popular de Libertação to the Chiapas-based Zapatistas — have mobilized citizens to take control of their food production systems.
Fair Food Nation explores the intersection of local, national and global food issues through a presentation of archival ephemera documenting food’s integral role in the pursuit of social, racial and economic justice.
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Finally Got the News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970-1979
Exhibition Dates: January 26th through May 14, 2017
Curator's Tour: May 6th, 1pm
Finally Got the News (a collaboration between Brad Duncan and Interference) uncovers the hidden legacy of the radical left of the 1970s, a decade when vibrant social movements challenged racism, imperialism, patriarchy and capitalism itself. It uses original printed materials—from pamphlets to posters, flyers to record albums—to tell this politically rich and little-known story. This exhibition also includes a publication, available for pre-order.
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