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Spectacle is proud to present this special one-night-only program in celebration of Interference Archive’s exhibition, Resurgence Youth Movement, 1964-67: Teenrevolt, Surrealism, Anarchism. Founded in New York’s Lower East Side in 1964, the Resurgence Youth Movement became a sprawling and boundless web of anti-racist, anti-imperialist, anarchist activity in cities around the country. The exhibition, closing on May 17th, follows the 2023 publication of Resurgence!, the first book devoted to the RYM and its founder Jonathan Leake, which includes selections of all twelve issues of Resurgence, the original mimeographed zine published by Leake and RYM between 1964 and 1967.
From Interference Archive:
The RYM called for the disintegration of the State, the complete destruction of bourgeois society, and a total surrealist-psychedelic revolution of the mind and body. “The Resurgence Youth Movement…advances the new anarchism of body, mind and soul, the psychedelic alchemies of revolution,” RYM wrote in their “Guerilla Manifesto” (Resurgence 6, 1967). Their activities continued until August of 1967, when Walter Caughey was stabbed to death in New York in an unsolved murder that many believe was politically motivated.
Copies of Resurgence! will be available for sale at the theater. We will be joined throughout the evening by special guests including Resurgence! Editor Abigail Susik, underground press scholar Sean Lovitt, and theorist and activist Sabu Kohso.