Gallery Talk: Dot Tuer on Vera Frenkel

Canadian artist Vera Frenkel has created an extensive body of work spanning from the 1970s to today. As an early innovator in embracing new technologies, her videos, installations, and online projects explore themes such as cultural memory, migration, and the influence of language and media on identity and community.

This talk by Dot Tuer is the second of two talks that accompany As If By Chance…, a two-channel video and print installation. Tuer is a long-time admirer of Vera Frenkel’s work, about which she has written extensively, and she curated Frenkel’s 1997 Images Retrospective. Her current book project on artistic practices of memory-making in the Americas includes a chapter devoted to Frenkel’s work.

Dot Tuer is a writer, artist, and cultural theorist whose work explores the intersections of art, memory, technology, and politics. Author of Mining the Media Archive and widely published in anthologies, museum catalogues, and journals, Tuer divides her time between Argentina and Canada, where she is Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at OCAD University. A selection of Tuer’s writings can be found at https://ocad.academia.edu/DotTuer