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Coming up at Interference Archive:

The Politics of the Joy of Printing

December 5th, 2019, 6:30–8:30pm

Author Danielle Aubert will talk about her exciting new book, The Detroit Printing Co-op: The Politics of the Joy of Printing. Hopefully the first in a series of events about the evolution and explosion of “movement printshops” in the 1960s–80s, Aubert will dial in on the specifics of this experiment in mass production in the radical community of Detroit, including Fredy Perlman and his Black and Red Press, the Black nationalist project Black Star Press, the autonomous Be/Wick Editions, and others.

We the People Won’t Go: LES Artists on the Squatting movement / Nosotros la Gente No Nos Vamos: Artistas del LES acerca del movimiento de Ocupación

With Seth Tobocman, Fly, Mac McGill and Maggie Wrigley; moderated by Amy Starecheski

This panel features artists who were a part of the Lower East Side squatting movement in the 1980s. The squatting movement was about housing but it also incorporated broader political goals and promoted different kinds of communities and living arrangements. In many squats, art served to communicate a message or bring people together. Artists will present their work and discuss how they’ve tried to document the squatting movement, or how their involvement in this movement has shaped how they make art.

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On view:

Building for Us: Stories of Homesteading and Cooperative Housing

Exhibition Dates: October 17, 2019 to February 2, 2020

Interference Archive and the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB) present the exhibition Building for Us: Stories of Homesteading and Cooperative Housing. Building for Us begins in the 1970s, exploring the history of government disinvestment, widespread landlord neglect, abandonment in New York City and how this gave rise to squatting, urban homesteading, and other forms of self-help housing. The ultimate goal is for tenant associations in this housing movement is to take their buildings out of the speculative housing market and own them collectively and democratically. 

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Like the Waters, We Rise

Exhibition Dates: November 21, 2019 to April 17, 2020
On display at the Nathan Cummings Foundation

A vast movement for climate justice continues to rise worldwide, directly challenging the powerful interests of those most responsible for the climate crisis, while working towards building a just and equitable response that ensures the health, safety and dignity of all people. At its center, the climate justice movement is driven by an understanding that economic and racial disparities result in unequal, unjust impacts—impacts which are already being felt in communities across the country. Just as importantly, many of the solutions we will need are emerging from these very communities on the frontlines.

Like the Waters, We Rise: Climate Justice in Print opens at the Nathan Cummings Foundation on Thursday, November 21, launching a celebration of the bold, graphic work of print-based artists who are on the frontlines of our climate justice movement.

The exhibit takes place in two parts. The first opens at the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and includes a selection of recent print based work (2005-present) beginning the year that Hurricane Katrina crashed onto the shores of the Gulf Coast. The second opens at Interference Archive in February 2020, and will include a collection of archival prints documenting the historical legacies of movements that gave birth to the current climate justice movement, including the Indigenous sovereignty movement, the farmworker movement, Black liberation struggles, and more.

This project was organized by Raquel de Anda (lead curator) and Nora Almeida, Ryan Buckley, Sophie Glidden Lyon, Josh MacPhee, and Siyona Ravi.

To set up an appointment to visit the exhibition Monday-Friday 10:00 a.m – 5:00 p.m., please contact exhibits@nathancummings.org. 

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