Interference Archive, Lani Hanna, Jen Hoyer, Josh MacPhee, Vero Ordaz, Sarah Seidman／Common Notions／17.7 × 25.4 cm／304 Pages

 

A stunning full-color, multilingual exploration of the profound graphic and intellectual legacy of the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (OSPAAAL) for internationalism, solidarity, communication, and art among movements today

OSPAAAL developed out of the 1966 Tricontinental Conference in Havana, a meeting of delegates representing national liberation movements and leftist political parties almost exclusively from the Global South. Based in Havana, OSPAAAL produced nearly five hundred posters, magazines, and books beginning in the late 1960s, with most of their work ceasing by the late 1980s. Until 2019, OSPAAAL was a political organization focused on fighting US imperialism and supporting liberation movements around the world through poster production, regularly produced publications, and a series of books featuring the writings of the intellectual leadership of these movements.

Armed By Design brings together artists and thinkers from around the world whose work has been impacted by the legacy of OSPAAAL. These contributions reflect on impacts of OSPAAAL’s work on regional movements, including in the Arab world and Korea, design iconography, the evolution of tricontinentalism, our present-day relationship to OSPAAAL posters as a commodity, and authorship and reproduction.

This full-color multilingual edition includes ten international contemporary political poster-makers, artists, and designers commissioned to produce OSPAAAL-inspired prints in solidarity with today’s movements: Friends of Ibn Firnas (USA), Yuko Tonohira (Japan/USA), Ganzeer (Egypt/USA), Un Mundo Feliz (Spain), Steven Rodriguez (USA), Dignidad Rebelde, Tomie Arai (USA), Sublevarte Colectivo (Mexico), Jamaa Al-Yad (Lebanon/Worldwide), and A3CB (Japan).

 

グローバル・サウスの民族解放運動や左翼政党の代表団がハバナに集まり、1966年に開催された三大陸会議。その会議がきっかけとなって創立されたOSPAAAL（アジア・アフリカ・ラテンアメリカ人民連帯機構）は、キューバのハバナを拠点として、1960年代後半から1980年代後半にかけて500点近いポスター、雑誌、書籍を制作した。アメリカ帝国主義と戦い、世界各地の解放運動を支援する政治団体として、ポスターや定期刊行物の発行、運動の知的指導者たちの著作の出版を2019年まで続けた。

本書には、OSPAAALの遺産に影響を受けた世界中のアーティストや思想家が参加している。かれらによる寄稿は、アラブ世界や朝鮮などの地域の運動、デザイン図像学、三大陸主義の進化、商品としてのOSPAAALポスターと現在の私たちとの関係、著作権と複製についてなど、OSPAAAL作品が与えた影響について考察している。

テキストはすべて、スペイン語、フランス語、ポルトガル語、英語の4言語で掲載され、全ページがフルカラー。現代の政治的ポスター作家、アーティスト、デザイナーによるポスター作品――OSPAAALからインスパイアを受けつつ、今日の運動と連帯する――も掲載されている： Friends of Ibn Firnas（アメリカ）、Yuko Tonohira（日本／アメリカ）、Ganzeer（エジプト／アメリカ）、Un Mundo Feliz（スペイン）、Steven Rodriguez（アメリカ）、Dignidad Rebelde、Tomie Arai（アメリカ）、Sublevarte Colectivo（メキシコ）、Jamaa Al-Yad（レバノン／世界）、A3CB（日本）。

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Interference Archive is a community-supported archive of material from social movements around the world, created with a mission 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.

Lani Hanna is a PhD Candidate in Feminist Studies at University of California Santa Cruz. Her research looks at community archives as social movement infrastructure across several rapidly changing cities. She has taken part in organizing several exhibitions at Interference Archive, including Armed by Design. Her article Tricontinental’s International Solidarity: Emotion in OSPAAAL as Tactic to Catalyze Support of Revolution (Radical History Review 2020) was part of a special edition about gender and the Cuban Revolution.

Jen Hoyer is a librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology and has volunteered on collections, exhibitions, and education projects at Interference Archive since 2013. Her writing about the intersections of education, archives, and social movement history is available in The Social Movement Archive (Litwin Books, 2021) and What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom (Libraries Unlimited, 2022).

Josh MacPhee has been collaboratively making, researching, and collecting political art for over twenty years. In 2011, he cofounded the Interference Archive, a library, exhibition, event, and research space in Brooklyn dedicated to the exploration of social movement culture. He is also a member of the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, and the author/editor of multiple books including Celebrate People’s History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution (Feminist Press, 2010 and 2020), An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels (Common Notions, 2019), and Graphic Liberation: Perspectives on Image Making and Political Movements (Common Notions, 2023). His solo exhibition, We Want Everything, was hosted by the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2022.

Vero Ordaz is a collaborative focused community member. She weaves her broad life and professional experiences to help bring people together. With a background in American Studies and Labor Studies, she is a higher education administrator and active rank-and-file member of the PSC-CUNY union.

Sarah Seidman is an historian and curator. As the Puffin Foundation Curator of Social Activism at the Museum of the City of New York, she curates the ongoing exhibition Activist New York, which explores two centuries of activist histories in New York City. She has also curated the exhibitions Beyond Suffrage: A Century of New York Women in Politics, and co-curated PRIDE: Photographs of Stonewall and Beyond by Fred W. McDarrah and King in New York, and the exhibition and catalog Armed by Design at Interference Archive. Dr. Seidman holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Brown University. She has received fellowships from the University of Rochester, New York University, and the American Council of Learned Societies, and her writing has appeared in Radical History Review, the Journal of Transnational American Studies, and The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture, among other places.