This week at Interference Archive:
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A Century of Immigration on Film
Saturday, March 9th, 7:30pm
Celebrate and reflect on 100 years of immigration in America with two screenings:
Three Trembling Cities (Arthur Vince, 2017, TRT: 35 minutes) is an intimate portrait of the inner lives and daily struggles of the immigrants who make NYC’s heart tremble with hope. The first season follows two fictional circles of immigrants as they juggle jobs, relationships, immigration issues, family expectations, and their own dreams. Their stories are intercut with non-fiction interviews with immigrants who’ve faced parallel issues.
With Q and A with the Director and special guest speaker.
The Immigrant (Charlie Chaplin, 1917, TRT: 22 minutes). With his trademark blend of humor and pathos, Chaplin follows a pair of immigrants to America and chronicles the very tangible problems they face. A vocal critic of both war and Capitalism, a scene in which Chaplin’s character kicks an immigration officer (the ICE of its day) was later used as evidence of his anti-Americanism when he was forced to leave the US in 1952. The Immigrant is as relevant now as ever. Screening in glorious 16mm!
With live musical accompaniment.
Read more details on our website.
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Women Make Change: a Wikipedia edit-a-thon and discussion about radical feminism in 1968
Sunday, March 10, 2019, 2–6pm
We’ll kick off this event at 2pm with a presentation and conversation led by Bev Grant, an activist, musician, and photographer, about the feminist organizing in the late 1960s and the performative protests at the 1968 Miss America Pageant. Stick around to join local Wikipedians and Interference Archive volunteers to work on a rhizomatic campaign to improve coverage of radical women and the arts on Wikipedia. Participants will have the opportunity to work directly with archival materials in the Interference collection and explore intersections between art, feminism, and activism.
No experience editing Wikipedia is required but please bring a laptop! Experienced Wikipedians will be around to help out, and we’ll be starting the edit-a-thon around 2:45pm with a brief tutorial to cover the basics. RSVP and find out about childcare on our website.
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Radical Playdate presents: Let’s Make Zines!
Saturday, March 16, 12-2pm
Recommended ages: 8 and under Suggested materials donation: $5 (but no one will be turned away!)
Join us for a session of stamp and stencil drawings with (kid-safe and washable) stamp pads and spray markers. At the end we’ll create a zine with our very own Risograph printer. You can take free copies of the collectively made zine with you!
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Australian Political Posters: Four Decades
Thursday March 28, 2019, 6:30 pm
Australia has a rich history of political poster collectives that emerged in the 1970s and are now experiencing a resurgence. Curator Macushla Robinson will [do her best to] contextualize the political posters on display as part of Hi Vis: Australian Political Posters within the broader frame of Australian political movements, protest work and print culture over the past 40 years. Drawing on research that she initially developed for an exhibition at The Art Gallery of NSW titled See you at the barricades, she will draw out some of the key themes and constitutive tensions that arise looking back at four decades of political posters. Read more info on our website.
This discussion is part of the exhibition Hi Vis: Australian Political Posters, 1979–2019 currently on view at Interference Archive.
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Audio Interference 62: Alison Alder
This episode features an interview with artist and collector Alison Alder, recorded last summer when Alison visited New York. Alison Alder is a visual artist whose work blurs the line between studio, community and social/political art practice.
Her formative years as an artist were spent working in the screen-printing workshops of Megalo (Canberra) and Redback Graphix (Wollongong/Sydney) where she was co-director from 1985–1993. The next major period of her art practice was spent working within Indigenous organisations in the Northern Territory, primarily for Julalikari Council in Tennant Creek.
Alder received an International Year of Tolerance Fellowship from the Australia Council in recognition of her work toward social justice and equity through art practice. Alder is currently Head of the Printmedia and Drawing Workshop at the Australian National University School of Art.
Alison is also the organizer of Interference Archive’s current exhibition, Hi-Viz: Australian Political Posters 1979-2019. Hi-Viz, an exhibition of screen-printed posters that provide a visual commentary of politics and life in Australia over the last four decades, is on display through April 14.
Listen online!
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On view now through April 14th:
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Hi-Viz: Australian Political Posters 1979–2019
February 8 – April 14, 2019
Opening reception: Friday, February 8, 6-9pm
From the collection of Alison Alder
HI-VIS: AUSTRALIAN POSTERS 1979–2019 is an exhibition of screen-printed posters that provide a visual commentary of politics and life in Australia over the last four decades. Renowned for their high visibility, particularly in the 1980s with their saturated fluorescent colors, these posters describe the times and events that have engaged socially active artists throughout recent periods of major change.
Many of the topics addressed in these posters remain relevant today including Indigenous rights, gender politics, unemployment, and the environment. Contemporary Australian artists are reinvigorating the screen printed poster as a form of protest and information sharing by pasting the work onto the wall and value adding to its potency by posting on social media. These posters, with their ability to encapsulate ideas into a single image, continue to provoke debate, galvanize ideas into action, and invigorate those working toward an equitable and just society.
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