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Marie-Catherine Cyr, Documentation and Archival Management Committee

Day 2, Group 3

Marie-Catherine Cyr, Queen’s University – Queen’s Archives

The archives of Canadian artist Vera Frenkel, housed at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, hold a wealth of assorted information: correspondence with diverse collaborators, publications, exhibition contracts, lists of materials, installation plans, programmer notes, various versions and formats of Frenkel’s works, etc. ...

* Please note most of this presentation is in French.
Marie-Catherine Cyr
© DOCAM 2007


...One work in particular, ...from the Transit Bar (1994), has been the subject of a case study. The artist’s paper and video archives were researched and categorized in order to garner information pertinent to the conservation and reinstallation of the work and in an attempt to better understand the dynamics generated by its presentation. This exercise has served as a guide to identify how and what to document when preserving such installations.

 

The second phase of the study will see the evaluation parameters of this type of fonds determined to better prepare for the management and legal protection of the archival collections of artists.