XFR COLLECTIVE SELECTS

SEPTEMBER 308:30 PMLE PETIT VERSAILLES COMMUNITY GARDEN346 E. Houston St. / 247 E. 2nd St.RAIN OR SHINEStay tuned to our Facebook Group for more information about the screening line-up!XFR Collective developed following XFR STN, an exhibition presented in 2013 by the New Museum of Contemporary Art.  Alan Moore proposed “XFR STN” to the museum as a pub preservation experiment especially to preserve the materials of the Monday/Wednesday/Friday Video Club (M/W/F).  M/W/F distributed independent film and video by the artists’ group Colab (Collaborate Projects, Inc.) and by other Lower East Side filmmakers from 1986-2000 on VHS at consumer prices. Johanna Burton, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Engagement at the New Museum, with Alexis Bhagat and COLAB artists, created a team utilizing the expertise of the museum staff, other New York archivists, and recent graduates of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program (MIAP) at New York University.  After the close of XFR STN, an eight-week exhibit, several archivists and technicians and a COLAB artist were inspired by the success of the exhibition and the clear community need and enthusiasm for this work to find ways to continue it.