Join us for Between a Frame and a Soft Place: A Hybrid Exhibition Exploring the Digital Body
Brooklyn, NY — Michèle St. Michel @michelesaintmichel and Bad Saturn @badsaturnmedia presents Between a Frame and a Soft Place, a week of events that examine the digital body, how it moves, morphs, and manifests across both tangible and intangible spaces. Taking place April 11-17 at Millennium Film Workshop, this hybrid exhibition unfolds across multiple forms: a traditional film screening, a gallery installation, a zine release and reading event, and a performance program. Curated by Saint-Michel, these elements invite viewers to peer into a world where physical and digital realities collide, questioning where the human ends and the digital body begins.
Spanning film, performance, and installation, the exhibition explores how technology reconfigures identity and presence, proposing the body as an evolving assemblage shaped by digital interfaces, ecology, and shifting power structures.
Featured Artists and Events
The gallery installation features works by Lisa Crafts, Sapphire Goss, Ellen Gilbert, Audrey Coombe, Fiona Jacobson-Yang, Jorge Suárez Quiñones Rivas, indexthumb, Madeline Rose Finkel, and Soo Hyun Lee.
The screening program showcases films from international artist filmmakers alongside works from the London-based Digital Bodies Collective, presenting an array of perspectives on embodiment, representation, and identity in the age of infinite screens.
The second night of performances features a live audiovisual performance by LA-based artist Jenna Caravello, a durational piece by London-based performance artist indexthumb, choreography by London-based choreographer Aleth Berenice, and Brooklyn-based movement artist Mackenzie Rawls. The evening also includes five performance films that further blur the lines between the physical and the digital.
On the exhibition’s third day, a limited-edition zine created exclusively for Between a Frame and a Soft Place and released by Bad Saturn Media will be officially launched. The zine features visual art and poetry from 20 poets, artists, and writers. The event includes a special poetry reading by Vincent Katz, Kate Mohanty, Kevin Chen, Matt McKinzie, Jaime Yuan, and others.
Exhibition Details
Between a Frame and a Soft Place takes place April 11-17 at Millennium Film Workshop, offering audiences a multi-sensory experience that bridges flesh and circuits, memory and data. Each element, from the moving images on screen to the spectral illusions within the space, explores how the body exists simultaneously within and beyond the frame.
A limited number of zines will be available, providing deeper insights into the artists’ processes and the themes at the heart of the exhibition. The gallery exhibition remains on view April 14-17, from 1-5 PM at 167 Wilson Ave., Brooklyn, NY.
About the Curator
Michèle Saint-Michel is an artist, filmmaker, and curator whose work explores power, feminist ecologies, somatic memory, and the intersections of grief, longing, and digital embodiment. Saint-Michel has curated and exhibited internationally, crafting spaces where moving images become sites of intimacy, resistance, and transformation. Her curatorial practice foregrounds experimental film, immersive installation, and the ways technology reshapes identity and presence. As the curator of Between a Frame and a Soft Place, she brings together a diverse group of artists whose works challenge the boundaries between physical and digital realities, inviting audiences to reconsider what it means to inhabit a body in an era of infinite screens.
About Millennium Film Workshop
Since 1966, Millennium Film Workshop has been a cornerstone of the experimental film movement, offering resources, workshops, and screening opportunities to filmmakers pushing the boundaries of cinema. Building on its storied history, Millennium continues to cultivate powerful new voices in independent film and remains an influential hub for creative collaboration.
About Bad Saturn Media
Bad Saturn Media is an independent publishing and arts platform dedicated to amplifying experimental voices in literature, visual art, and beyond. With a focus on interdisciplinary collaboration, Bad Saturn supports artists who challenge form and convention, creating space for radical storytelling and aesthetic exploration. From artist books to critical essays, hybrid zines to experimental music, the press fosters projects that exist at the margins of traditional publishing. As the publisher of the Between a Frame and a Soft Place zine, Bad Saturn continues its commitment to cultivating work that expands the conversation around healing, identity, and creative practice, building a more care-full world.
Join us as we explore the liminal space between a frame and a soft place, where the screen not only defines our perception but dissolves into the shifting terrain of our digital bodies.