Art and Protest - Archiving, History, and Social Movement Culture

People organizing to improve their lives and communities produce culture, and that culture is central to social change. But what happens when the demo is over and the placards are strewn in the street? When a movement’s history is rolled up in a box under someone’s bed? Josh MacPhee (a cofounder of both Interference Archive and the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative) discusses the contentious roles of institutions, art making, and archiving in the writing the histories of social transformation.