Episode 21 – Michele Saint-Michel – Don’t Tell Me I’m Beautiful

Michele Saint-MichelI had the pleasure of speaking with performance artist and experimental filmmaker, Michele Saint-Michel about her films, books, performance art, and grief. Michele is a rare soul who has wisdom beyond those of regular mortals. Her poetry films and her perspectives on grief are refreshing and most needed in light of having lost so many loved ones over the past year. There have been so many deaths due to COVID-19, loneliness, suicide, and stress that we need a touchstone of sanity to ground us. Her book, Grief Is an Origami Swan: An Art Book About Grief is available on Amazon.

From Michele’s website:

“Through overlapping layers of imagery, sound, film, textiles, language, and movement, Saint-Michel’s works function as settings, soundtracks, movements, and networks–attending to how time is constructed, manipulated, and, above all, experienced.

Often rendered as experimental film, books, poems, and audio recordings, mixed with the detritus of the natural world (preserved plants and insects), her works create digital and physical spaces of layered cross-sections. The overlap between the cultural, the environmental, and the emotional creates the conditional and reactive multi-temporal space.”

Also, check out her Vimeo page for her recent work.

Please follow and like us:

Upcoming Podcasts – Season 4

Season 4
Episode - Guest

8 - Amanda VanValkenburg
9 - Tenley Raj
10 - Scott Turri
11 - Eleni Mylonas
12 - Allison Roberts
13 - Al Julian
14 - Mary Hawkins
15 - Belinda Moren
16 - Jake Nicastro
17 - Madelyn Gowler
18 - Martin Del Carpio
19 - Leah Bunner
20 - Vasco Diogo
21 - Frankie Campisano
22 - Gillian Harrill
23 - Cassidy Civiero

Loading