Artists Space

Book launch of Susan Brockman: Soft Network 01

Wednesday, January 7
7pm
Free, no RSVP required

Join Soft Network and Soberscove Press to celebrate the launch of Susan Brockman: Soft Network 01. This is the first book to focus on the life and work of Susan Brockman (1937-2001) and the first in a series that documents Soft Network’s core program, the Archive-in-Residence.

The launch will include a screening of Brockman’s most well-known film, Depot (1974); Nicole Miller reading from her essay in the book; and a conversation between the book’s editor, Marie Warsh, with Mirra Bank, Brockman’s sister-in-law, moderated by curator and writer Jordan Amirkhani.

White text on a purple background reads: "Soft Network & Soberscove Press / Book Launch / Susan Brockman: Soft Network 01 / January 7, 2025, 7-9PM / Artists Space, 11 Cortlandt Alley, NYC." A black and white photograph of a woman standing in a desolate space is featured on the bottom left corner of the flyer.
Flyer for Book Launch of Susan Brockman: Soft Network 01. [White text on a purple background reads: "Soft Network & Soberscove Press / Book Launch / Susan Brockman: Soft Network 01 / January 7, 2025, 7-9PM / Artists Space, 11 Cortlandt Alley, NYC." A black and white photograph of a woman standing in a desolate space is featured on the bottom left corner of the flyer.]

Jordan Amirkhani is a Brooklyn-based writer, editor, curator and educator. From 2020-2025, she served as Curator + Head of Program Research and Development at Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a regular contributor to many contemporary art and culture publications, including Artforum, Art in America, Baltimore Arts, and Burnaway.

Mirra Bank is an award-winning film producer and director and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She also directs theater and is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio.

Nicole Miller is a writer, editor, and teacher whose work has appeared in numerous publications. She edited Writing Toward Dawn: Selected Journals 1969–82 by Donna Dennis (Bamberger Books, 2024) and contributed to Donna Dennis: Poet in Three Dimensions (The Monacelli Press, 2023).

Marie Warsh is a historian, writer, and the deputy director of Soft Network. She is also codirector of the estate of Rosemary Mayer and has edited several publications about the artist, including Excerpts from the 1971 Journal of Rosemary Mayer (2016/2020) and Temporary Monuments: Work by Rosemary Mayer, 1977–1982 (2018) with Max Warsh, both published by Soberscove Press.

Soft Network empowers contemporary artists and those working with artist estates and archives to imagine and implement new and sustainable legacy models. Our mission is to provide space for shared dialogue around this critical yet overlooked field and to redress exclusions in art history. Our core offering is a fully-funded program of support for under-resourced artist estates and archives. Through research, archiving, public programs, digitization, exhibitions, and publications, Soft Network preserves and provides access to the work of vital yet often vulnerable artists and supports those who care for their legacies.

Soberscove Press is a Chicago-based independent publisher of books about art and culture. Our books tend to explore modes and functions of documentation, engage with process, and connect historical themes and issues to the present. We publish many of our books in collaboration with artists.