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ASMR4 Launch
April 12th, 6:00-8:00PM

Alive with Archives: Janice Guy, RaFia Santana/Marilyn Nance Archive, Gail Thacker and Carla Williams discuss recent approaches to showing work from their archives. Moderated by Kim Bourus.
April 21st, 3:00-4:00PM

Soft Network x Feminist Institute Memory Lab
May 1st, 6:00-8:00PM

Presenters include:

Mónica Félix screening Pieza de conversación, 2023
Gabriella N. Báez with family photos from Puerto Rico
Yuri Shimojo on her 1997 memoir “Tiny Scribble”
Penny Arcade on Sheyla Baykal
Ryan Foerster on Silvianna Goldsmith

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Contained Illusions is the second exhibition at Soft Network with the Estate of Susan Brockman (1937-2001). This presentation features Brockman’s photo-based work from the 1990s alongside her films and video from the 1970s-1980s. Brockman was a prolific filmmaker, film editor, and photographer but was also extremely private and didn’t seek out critical attention. This exhibition provides space for discussion of an elusive artist’s legacy and the consideration of issues particular to film and photography archives. Brockman’s photographs and films are inviting yet enigmatic, melancholic yet playful. They capture something fundamental about film and photography and its primary ingredients of light, frame, illusion, and the pleasure of looking.