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This week at Interference Archive:

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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