Vera Frenkel



Vera Frenkel: String Games
Jan Allen and Earl Miller
 
verafrenkel.gifspacer.gifIn 1974 Vera Frenkel explored real-time video transmission at the then-new Bell Canada Teleconferencing Studios in Toronto and Montreal. Giving her experiment an improvisational structure, she chose the cat’s cradle finger string game as the mode of orchestrated movement in service of a constantly transforming whole. Essayists offer an account of the work’s creation and situate it within the national and international context of conceptual art practices where it intersects with the nascent electronic art movement. Vera Frenkel is currently (2011-2012) exhibiting at the Long Beach Museum of Art in Exchange and Evolution: Worldwide Video 1974-1999.

Agnes Etherington Art Centre (09/2011) 24 pp 12 bw ill. l 7.5 x 11.5 softcover  978-1-55339-259-0  $12.00 Can. $14.95 U.S. (10 €)


Telling Stories, Secret Lives
Jan Allen, Steven Matijcio et al

Inspired by an upsurge in the use of narrative in contemporary art, this publication reconsiders installation and sculptural works by taking into account their narrative potential and by making tangible the imaginative trajectories they embody. To accomplish this, seven writers respond to works by seven artists. Through prose and poetry they take approaches ranging from counterpoint to empathetic engagement with their subject work. This inventive publication presents each text adjacent to its its subject image, an essay, as well as catalogue entries on each of the works with summary texts, artists' statements and bibliographical notes. Featured artists are Dorothy Cameron, Ian Carr-Harris, Robin Collyer, Vera Frenkel, Myfanwy MacLeod, Sandra Meigs and Terry Pfliger.

Agnes Etherington Art Centre (03/2007) 54 pp 7 col. ill. 8 x 6 in softcover 978-1-55339-088-6 $18.00 Can. US. (14 €)


Track Records: Trains and Contemporary Photography/ Chroniques en rail: trains et photographie contemporaine
Marnie Fleming

Published in collaboration with the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography and featuring works by Roy Arden, Vera Frenkel, Angela Grauerholz, James Welling, and others.
Publié en collaboration avec le Musée canadien de la photographie contemporaine, cet ouvrage présente le travail des artistes Roy Arden, Vera Frenkel, Angela Grauerholz, James Welling et autres.

Oakville Galleries. (1997) 121 pp ill. 11 x 9 in ISBN: 0921027702 $22.00 Can./U.S. (18 euros)