Lecture: Fragile Dwelling

Fragile Dwelling: Margaret Morton's documentation of New York's homeless communities in the 1990s

Bonnie Yochelson, Executive Director, Margaret Morton Archive

Former Curator of Prints and Photographs at the Museum of the City of New York, Bonnie specializes in contemporary and historical photography of New York. A longtime friend of Margaret Morton (1948-2020) and executor of her estate, Bonnie established the Margaret Morton Archive to promote Margaret’s legacy and donate her works to public collections.

Bonnie will place the Glass House project within the context of Margaret's life and work, and will explain why she approached Interference Archive to create the current exhibition.

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Physical space of the Interference Archive is ADA compliant.

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This panel discussion is part of a series of public programs around the exhibition Through Padlocks, Behind Barricades: Margaret Morton's Glass House and the Squats of the Lower East Side.

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 the winter of 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.

On view at Interference Archive from October 17, 2025 through January 5, 2026.