Audio Interference

"There are fewer squatters because of state repression--because of the way the law has changed and the way the police enforce that law." - Greg Ryan

 

This episode is about the effects of UK housing law on the London squatters movement.  Louise Barry talks to Myk Zeitlin of the Advisory Service for Squatters, former squatter Greg Ryan, and a member of the Squatters Action for Secure Homes (SQUASH) campaign.  

 

Music: "Instrumental #2" by Gillicuddy, courtesy of the Free Music Archive.

 

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"It's people who are more familiar with archives who have more trouble figuring out how to negotiate this space...There's one researcher I remember, she came in with this question about Adrienne Rich, so I mistakenly assumed that she wanted to see Adrienne Rich's papers.  And so I took down the box and she was just so intimidated to be in front of this collection of personal papers that had been personally donated by Adrienne Rich." - Rachel Corbman

 

In this episode, Lani Hanna and Brooke Shuman talk to Maxine Wolfe and Rachel Corbman, of the Lesbian Herstory Archives.  Based in Park Slope, Brooklyn, the Lesbian Herstory Archives is home to the world's largest collection of materials by and about lesbians and their communities.

 

Music and spoken word from the 1977 album, Lesbian Concentrate: A Lesbianthology of Songs and Poems.

 

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"The image allows for the viewer to interpret it quickly.  And I guess that's what an advertiser tries to do--that's what a propagandist tries to do."  - Kevin Caplicki

 

In this episode, Brooke Shuman talks to Kevin Caplicki, one of the founders of Interference Archive and a member of Justseeds.  Founded in 1998, Justseeds is a worker-owned cooperative that produces politically-themed prints.  With members working from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, Justseeds operates both as a unified collaboration of similarly minded printmakers and as a loose collection of creative individuals with unique viewpoints and working methods.  Justseeds produces collective portfolios on subjects including climate justice, the Zapatista movement, migration, reproductive rights, and the US prison system.

 

Music included:

"Kufanya Mapenzi (Making Love)"

Ramsey Lewis

7" Single (Columbia Records, 1972)

 

"Anti-manifesto"

Propagandhi

How to Clean Everything (Fat Wreck Chords, 1993)

 

Produced by Interference Archive.  For more information, see the following links:

 

http://justseeds.org/

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taller_de_Gr%C3%A1fica_Popular

 

Culture Strike

http://www.culturestrike.org/

 

Justseeds works with frontline advocacy organizations to create their prints. Here are a handful:

 

Critical Resistance

http://criticalresistance.org/

 

Marcellus Shale Earth First!

https://marcellusshaleearthfirst.org/

"We were subject to an FBI sting.  We were placed under surveillance, and we were able to discover the surveillance and get rid of it, but then for the next nine years we were living underground." - Diana Block

 

In this episode, Lani Hanna speaks to Diana Block about her life as an activist, organizer, and writer.  Block was a founding member of San Francisco Women Against Rape and the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee.  When her activism in support of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement attracted the attention of the FBI, she spent thirteen years living "underground" under a different identity.

 

You will also hear Diana Block read from her novel, Clandestine Occupations, during the exhibition Armed By Design/El Diseño a las Armas: Posters and Publications of Cuba’s Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (OSPAAAL).

 

Produced by Interference Archive.

 

Music: "Fibonaci Effect in Two Movements" by Lanark, "El Danzon de Noventa Millas" by Cuban Cowboys, and "Pivoting on Salsa Key 11," by Tracky Birthday, all courtesy of the Free Music Archive.

"We were still coming off the afterglow, in many ways, of May '68.  There's no question about that." - Greg Sholette.

 

In this episode, artist, writer, and activist Greg Sholette relates the history of the political art collective PAD/D, and how the collective used art to resist gentrification in 1980s New York.  Sholette was interviewed by Louise Barry and Eric Triantafillou in March.  

 

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Music: "Bruises," "No One's Trophy," and "Asleep," by Christian Flanders, courtesy of the Free Music Archive.

"I think about posters as a way of starting a conversation, but I don't feel like we talk enough about how that conversation is started and where that conversation goes beyond talking."  -- Kameelah Janan Rasheed

 

On Nov 4, 2015, Interference Archive hosted a panel entitled Solidarity, Distribution, Design: The Poster Today,  which explored the intersection of graphic design and socio-political engagement.   Josh MacPhee of Interference Archive moderated the event and was joined by artists Dread Scott, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Avram Finkelstein for a rousing discussion that touched on topics of appropriation, respectability politics and even the Fast and Furious movie franchise.

 

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Music: "Welcome Departure" by Ketsa, courtesy of the Free Music Archive.

"We're blessed with being the keepers of some very valuable stuff.  It's not ours.  It's intentional that this is part of the community and belongs to the community." - Claude Marks

 

Freedom Archives is based in San Francisco and contains over 10,000 hours of audio and video tape, which chronicles both revolutionary struggles and state repressions.  They also create audio and video documentaries of their own.  Interference Archive reached out to Freedom Archives because of their shared commitment to archiving the histories of social movements.  Lani Hanna spoke to Freedom Archives co-founder Claude Marks, and his co-worker Nathaniel Moore.

 

Music: "Kentucky Mule" by Tate Peterson, courtesy of the Free Music Archive.

 

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"Before we ask questions, we find out more about the problems that are happening.  And sometimes we even go out and ask the people around us: what is something that you don't feel comfortable with?  Where do you feel disconnected?...I think that's the way that we actually find political issues to do art with."  - Stephanie Roman

 

Mobile Print Power is a multigenerational collective based out of Immigrant Movement International in Corona, Queens, who use silkscreen printmaking to engage communities and explore social and cultural situations.  Mobile Print Power's history of collaborative work is the subject of Interference Archive's upcoming exhibition, Soñamos Sentirnos Libres / Under Construction, opening May 1.  In this episode of Audio Interference, Charlie Morgan and Lani Hanna talk to collective members Marissa Campiz, Brandon Castillo, Jennifer Muñoz, Stephanie Roman, and Patrick Rowe.

 

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"I just remember when I was first making comics, it just felt really powerful.  It's kind of like that feeling when you first start riding a bike." - Jan Descartes

 

In this episode, Louise Barry speaks with two contributors to Interference Archive's exhibition, Our Comics, Ourselves: Jan Descartes, an artists and one of the curators of the exhibition, and zinemaker Elvis B., creator of the series Homos in Herstory and co-founder of the NYC Feminist Zine Fest.

 

Music: "Minus Mercury" by Thorn1, courtesy of the Free Music Archive.

 

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"I really wanted people to understand what the past was.  At its base level, this is what happens when women have to use a coat hanger when they need an abortion." -Leela Corman

 

Leela Corman is an illustrator and comic book artist, based in Gainesville, Florida.  Her 2012 graphic novel Unterzakhn is about twin sisters growing up in the Russian-Jewish neighborhood of the Lower East Side at the turn of the last century.  Lani Hanna sat down with Corman in February to discuss the book.

 

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