What is Interference Archive?
The mission of Interference Archive is to explore the relationship between cultural production and social movements. This work manifests in an open stacks archival collection, publications, a study center, and public programs including exhibitions, workshops, talks, and screenings, all of which encourage critical and creative engagement with the rich history of social movements.
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*Palestine Lives! // Ten Years of Librarians and Archivists with Palestine
November 11, 2023 – May 3, 2024
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*Photographic Ways of Remembering: An Archive Photobook Workshop for Preserving Palestinian Histories
Friday, March 29, 2024 @ 6:00 PM
Columbia Apartheid Divest Coalition invites you to join us for an evening of archiving personal histories, guided by artist Jenna Hamed. Participants will be asked to bring copies of archival family photographs, printed photos from their camera rolls, texts, fabrics, and all other forms of artifact to assemble into an artist book. With a focus […]
MoreWhat is the Project of Political Education
Thursday, April 4, 2024 @ 7:00 PM
Palestine & Political Education Join Interference Archive’s Education Working Group for our monthly discussion on political education. This month, we will again focus our time together around Palestine & Political Education and prioritize creating space to connect with each other. Some questions we’re interested in: Graphic by Alec Dunn, Link
MoreOur Collections
Our collection includes tens of thousands of items created as part of social movements around the world, by the participants themselves: posters, flyers, publications, zines, books, T-shirts and buttons, moving images, audio recordings, and other materials. For us, making this material accessible to the public is an act of preservation, not only of the physical materials, but of the collective history of those struggling for social change. Learn more about our collections and set up a time to visit them in-person in the archive.
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Audio Interference 86: Queer Soccer, “Being Together Everywhere”
Reb Ngu, one of our volunteers, interviews their teammate, Lua Ferreira, about their queer/trans pick-up soccer group, which Lua started in the summer of 2020. They talk about losing soccer as kids and recovering it as adults, the transforming effects of play, maintaining the group as a free and open space, and learning how to […]
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*Exhibition Catalog: Walkout: A Brief History of Student Organizing
May 2020 marked the 50th anniversary of the Kent State and Jackson State massacres, which set off a historically large-scale student strike across the nation. With the anniversary as an entry point and frame of reference, this 96-page full color publication uses posters, buttons, pamphlets, flyers, zines, and more—to examine the broader scope of student movements that both led up to and followed those of May 1970.