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Edited with an introduction by Marie Warsh
Contributions by Nicole Miller, Chelsea Spengemann, Sara VanDerBeek, and Marie Warsh
Interview with Martha Edelheit by Mirra Bank and Chelsea Spengemann
Afterword by Mirra Bank
This book is the first to focus on the life and work of Susan Brockman (1937–2001), a prolific filmmaker and artist who was involved in the feminist art movement, the documentary filmmaking community, and the downtown New York art scenes of the 1960s–90s. Through her distinctive approach to framing, editing, and collage, Brockman created interior worlds and tableaux that have a palpable but enigmatic emotional resonance. Brockman neither sought nor received much critical attention during her lifetime, and her work was largely forgotten in the years following her death.
In 2021, Soft Network began a three-year journey with her archive, a project that uncovered her striking contributions to the history of experimental image-making. Susan Brockman: Soft Network 01 integrally charts the organization’s research process and methodology, laying bare the immense effort that goes into caring for and creating access to an artist’s legacy and proposing new ways of considering what legacy work can mean.