Worlds Between:: An Examination of the Thematics of Exile and Memory in the Work of Vera Frenkel
Vera Frenkel: Raincoats Suitcases Palms, 1993, pp. 21-27
Toronto: Art Gallery of York University, 1993
Dot Tuer discusses Vera Frenkel’s video installation work in relation to its use of spoken narrative in video, memory, exile, and its critical embrace of Modernist tropes. "In contrast to airports across North America, where CNN has installed special monitors in waiting rooms so that all those in transit will have the same access to the same information, Frenkel offers the traveler an alternative to this bleak homogeneity...storytelling becomes a collaboration of viewer and artist, a reterritorialization of the self within the social".
ITEM 1993.050 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Lies & Truths – Vera Frenkel
Signs of a Plot: A Text, True Story & Work of Art – Vera Frenkel
No Solution-A Suspence Thriller #1 – Vera Frenkel
No Solution-A Suspence Thriller #4 – Vera Frenkel
X-Window – Vera Frenkel
A True Blue Romance – Vera Frenkel
from the Transit Bar – Vera Frenkel
The Last Screening Room: A Valentine – Vera Frenkel
String Games: Improvisations for Inter-City Video – Vera Frenkel
The Secret Life of Cornelia Lumsden – Vera Frenkel
Her Room In Paris – Vera Frenkel