Interference Archive
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| Country | United States |
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| Type | Archive |
| Established | 2011 |
| Location | Brooklyn, New York |
| Coordinates | 40°40′21″N 73°59′29″W / 40.672487°N 73.991402°WCoordinates: 40°40′21″N 73°59′29″W / 40.672487°N 73.991402°W |
| Website | http://interferencearchive.org/ |
Interference Archive is a volunteer-run library, gallery, and archive of historical materials related to social and political activism and movements. It is located in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.
Interference Archive began as the personal collection of Josh MacPhee and Dara Greenwald, activists who told the New York Times that they had filled their home with so much "social movement memorabilia ... Ph.D. students would visit to conduct research." The idea to turn it into a public resource began in 2008 when the couple was asked to curate an exhibition at the Exit Art gallery in Manhattan. Using the title "Signs of Change," it showcased cultural artifacts produced by those engaged with groups organizing to foment change. The show and research they did in preparation for it is reflected in the Interference Archive mission statement which begins, "Interference Archive explores the relationship between cultural production and social movements." MacPhee and Greenwald also point to archives and libraries of similar scope and purpose as inspiration, including another Brooklyn-based organization, the Lesbian Herstory Archives.
In 2010 MacPhee and Greenwald moved their collection to its current home in a warehouse in Gowanus, in collaboration with activists and artists Molly Fair and Kevin Caplicki. Greenwald named it Interference Archive to capture "the idea that the collection causes static, or interference, in institutional archives and in the larger society." It opened its doors to the public in December 2011 with a punk and feminism themed exhibition in tribute to Greenwald, who had been struggling with endometrial cancer and died the following month.
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