We are so grateful for your overwhelming show of support of this week!

Interference Archive stepped over the half-way mark of our fundraising goal in the first week of our month-long campaign—in fact, in one week we raised almost $20,000!

In a matter of seven short days you—a community we love and dedicate our work to—came together to lift us up. It has always been the case that Interference exists because of the dedication and labor of folks that believe in our mission, and we know that this financial commitment so many of you have made, is one extension of that.

When we found out we found out IA had to move out of its current home due to the sale of our building, we did not expect to so quickly find a new space that would allow us to serve the community in an even greater way. But we found an amazing new storefront space just off 5th Avenue in Park Slope. This space will give our collection and exhibitions more visibility, give greater access to our slew of 90 public programs a year, and will invite our growing community into an even more accessible space for all. Every dollar we're raising in this campaign will go towards the high costs of moving and building out a long-term home for Interference Archive.

Thank you to those of you that have already made a gift. We hope too that more of you may join in support of IA during this critical time. Please click through to learn more about our move and to make a donation. We look forward to welcoming you to our new home.

Finally Got the News Philadelphia Book Launch
September 23, 7 pm
Wooden Shoe Books and Records, 704 South Street, Philadelphia PA
With editor Brad Duncan

Finally Got the News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970-1979 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 combines written contributions from movement participants with original printed materials—from pamphlets to posters, flyers to newspapers—to tell this politically rich and little-known story.

The dawn of the 1970s saw an absolute explosion of interest in revolutionary ideas and activism. Young people radicalized by the antiwar movement became anti-imperialists, veterans of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements increasingly identified with communism and Pan-Africanism, and women were organizing for autonomy and liberation. While these movements may have different roots, there was also an incredible overlapping and intermingling of activists and ideologies.

These diverse movements used printed materials as organizing tools in every political activity, creating a sprawling and remarkable array of printing styles, techniques, and formats. Through the lens of printed materials we can see the real nuts and bolts of revolutionary organizing in an era when thousands of young revolutionaries were attempting to put their beliefs into practice in workplaces and neighborhoods across the U.S.

More information available here.

Visit us at the New York Art Book Fair!
September 22-24, 2017
MOMA PS1

We will be tabling along with our friends from the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative at the New York Art Book Fair this weekend—come say hello!

We Are All In This Together
OFF-SITE EXHIBITION
Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery at Purchase College
September 27 – November 10, 2017

We Are All in This Together, presented by Interference Archive with the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, uses the collection of Interference Archive and materials produced by the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative to explore artists’ solidarity with social movements.

There is a long tradition of artists as organizers. Artists participate in social justice through their creativity communicating demands and goals with visual works, with their labor in producing multiples, and through creating consumable items for fundraising. We Are All in This Together illustrates the moments when artists have rolled up their sleeves to do the dirty work of organizing. More than providing political commentary or personal response to topical events, many cultural workers have used their trade and skillset in solidarity with social, economic and environmental struggles. This exhibit will use Justseeds prints that were produced in solidarity with recent struggles, including Standing Rock, the Wisconsin uprising, and Boycott Divestment & Sanctions, along with ephemera produced by those social movements. Read more on our website.

Take Back the Fight: Resisting Sexual Violence from the Ground Up
Exhibition Dates: June 1 – September 3, October - December 2017

Recovery from trauma after sexual assault is often imagined as a personal, internal experience. However, an exclusive focus on individual narratives of victimization and healing can obscure decades of collective, grassroots struggle by and on behalf of sexual assault survivors. Rape is not an isolated experience, but a pervasive form of violence that acts in concert with oppression in the workforce, at home, and in medical and academic institutions--as well as with structural racism, homophobia, transphobia, and capitalism. Likewise, organizing against sexual violence is intimately linked to struggles for liberation in both public and private spheres. The history of organizing against sexual assault and rape helps us to understand feminist resistance to violence as a collective struggle against patriarchy, and sexual and gender violence as a function of state violence.

Interference Archive’s summer 2017 exhibition Take Back the Fight: Resisting Sexual Violence from the Ground Up focuses on organized responses to gender and sexual violence, highlighting the ways individuals and communities have developed creative and powerful grassroots and non-institutional justice and healing practices. A collaboration with Lesbian Herstory Archives, Take Back the Fight narrates intersecting histories of activism by and on behalf of survivors of sexual violence and their communities.

This exhibition will situate multiple histories of resistance to sexual violence within a broader narrative of feminist, anti-racist, and queer activism. It will present strategies of resistance, both historical and contemporary, looking at the ways in which activists have sought justice outside of the courts and the criminal justice system. Ultimately, Take Back the Fight will demonstrate the crucial role of grassroots organizing in the struggle against sexual violence and the importance of this activism as a tool of both healing and resistance. Read more on our website.