Institution: Interference Archive and Margaret Morton Archive
Event Title: Exhibition Opening: "Through Padlocks, Behind Barricades" at Interference Archive
Date and Time: Thursday, October 16, 2025; 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Event Type: In-Person Exhibition Opening
Location: Interference Archive (314 7th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215)
Registration: RSVP/registration is not needed for the Opening Reception
Event Description: Join Interference Archive and Margaret Morton Archive for the opening reception of "Through Padlocks, Behind Barricades: Margaret Morton's Glass House and the Squats of the Lower East Side," on view at Interference Archive from October 17th, 2025 - January 5th, 2026 (Opening Reception at Interference Archive on Thursday, October 16th from 6PM to 9PM).
"Through Padlocks, Behind Barricades" explores the squatter movement on New York’s Lower East Side (Loisaida) in the 1990s. It features Margaret Morton’s photographs of life in Glass House, an abandoned glass factory at the corner of Avenue D and East 10th Street. Several dozen squatters made the building their home for sixteen months, until police evicted them in winter 1994. The exhibition presents Morton’s in-depth portrait of one squat, with an array of printed materials exploring the debates that arose over squatters’ rights.
Interference Archive worked in partnership with the Margaret Morton Archive to produce the exhibition, an accompanying zine, two panel discussions and a film screening, which will take place in November and December 2025. Registration for these public programs will be available on Interference Archive's website beginning in late October / early November.
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