Join us in the R&D Store for an evening with Josh MacPhee and key players of indie publisher Common Notions, in a conversation moderated by MCLA Professor of Art Melanie Mowinski. MacPhee is joined by Kennedy Block, co-author of Strike While the Needle is Hot, and Malav Kanuga, Common Notions’ publisher. Common Notions Press publishes books that provide timely reflections, clear critiques, and inspiring strategies that amplify movements for social justice, and MacPhee has published two titles with them this year: Strike While the Needle is Hot: A Discography of Worker’s Revolt (in September) and Armed by Design (in January). The talk will be preceded by a listening party featuring the vintage, working-class music of labor movements featured in their book.

Over the course of his career, MacPhee has created a composite work life that merges elements of designer, artist, author, historian, and archivist. He is a founding member of the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, and co-founder of Interference Archive, a library, exhibition, event, and research space in Brooklyn dedicated to the exploration of social movement culture.

About the Artist:
Josh MacPhee has been collaboratively making, researching, and collecting political art for over 20 years. His solo exhibition, We Want Everything, was hosted by the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2022.