Kent Tate Explained

Kent Tate
Birth Place:Rivers, Manitoba
Known For:filmmaker

Kent Tate is a Canadian artist and filmmaker living in British Columbia.[1] Tate is known for his single-channel video installation works.

Early life

Tate was born in Rivers, Manitoba. He grew up in Germany until he moved with his family to Ottawa, Ontario.[2] [3]

Exhibitions

Tate has exhibited his films and art installations internationally in the UK, USA, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Argentina, New Zealand, Mexico and Korea since the early 1980s.[4]

In 1982, Jennifer Oille reviewed Tate's A.R.C. satellite installation in Toronto, the Museum of Post-Habitation, in Vanguard,[5] describing Tate's conversion of a soon to be abandoned dwelling into a museum. The exhibition ended with Tate's performance, Ending All Occupation.[6]

In 1985, the Helen Pitt Gallery in Vancouver presented Tate's exhibition No Rest for the Restless.[7]

In 1986, he presented the installation The Chemical Chamber at the Western Front artist-run centre in Vancouver.[8] Archival material related to the exhibition is held in the Western Front Fonds at the University of British Columbia's Rare Books and Special Collections.[9]

In 1988, Tate exhibited The Stalker installation at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver.[10] [11]

In 2012, Tate exhibited Movies for a Pulsing Earth, a ten-year retrospective video/sculptural installation at the Art Gallery of Swift Current.[2] [12]

In 2014 Tate's experimental film “The Sun comes out at Night” was an official selection in CURRENTS which is an annual citywide event produced by Parallel Studios in Santa Fe, USA.[13]

In 2016 Tate's video/sculptural installation “Movies for a Pulsing Earth toured to the Moose Jaw Museum and Gallery in Moose Jaw, Canada.[14] [15]

In 2019, Curator Kim Houghtaling presented Tate's solo exhibition Peneplain at the Art Gallery of Swift Current in Saskatchewan, Canada[16] [17] [18] Tate's film Catalyst was showcased the same year in the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre and Vtape: Canadian Perspectives on Experimental Film and Video Art program at Kasseler Dokfest in Kasseler, Germany.[19]

In 2020 his film Catalyst was exhibited in The Time is Love exhibition TIME is Love Screening – 12th edition “Universal Feelings: Myths & Conjunction” curated by Kisito Assangni at the Blue Oyster Art Project Space in Dunedin, New Zealand.[20]

In 2021 Tate's film Furnace was an official selection in the Nature & Culture – International Poetry Film Festival presented by the Poetic Phonotheque in Copenhagen, Denmark.[21]

In 2022 the book “Kent Tate: Selected Films 2010 - 2022” with an essay by Julie Oakes was published.[22] [23] [24] Also in that year, The Korean Society of Media & Arts (KOSMA) invited Tate to present the World Premiere of “Radius” in the KOSMA International Exhibition 'Real is Unreal' which accompanied the 2022 Autumn Symposium “the reconstruction of a relationship” at the Pier Contemporary in Seoul, Korea.[25] [26]

In 2023 Tate exhibited his video “Focal Point” in the KOSMA Spring International Invitational Exhibition on the Seoullo Media Canvas in Seoul, Korea.[27] Catalyst was screened in Live Soundtrack #69 at the Hypnos Theatre in Malmö, Sweden.[28] His film ARK was an official selection at the Dawson City International Short Film Festival.[29] [30] Curator Jorge Cappelloni presented a retrospective selection of Tate's experimental films covering 2016-2022 which included Inventory (2016), Velocity and Utopia (2017), Catalyst and Rupture (2018), Cornucopia and Furnace (2019), Pressure & Release (2020), Spark (2021) and Radius (2022) at the Buenos Aires Provincial Museum of Contemporary art MAR - Mar del Plata, Argentina.[31] [32]

Filmography

Awards

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Government of Canada . Canadian Heritage . Artists in Canada . app.pch.gc.ca . en.
  2. News: Dowson . Elisabeth . Tate's Movies for a Pulsing Earth offer compelling introspection at Gallery . 13 February 2019 . The Southwest Booster . Star News Publishing Inc . 29 March 2012 . Dowson . Medicine Hat, Canada . A4 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190325172213/https://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-southwest-booster/20120329/281509338150416 . 25 March 2019 . live .
  3. News: McNeil . Paul . Touring exhibit features work of Shaunavon artist . . 5 March 2013 . The Standard.
  4. Book: Alain-Martin Richard . Clive Robertson . Performance In Canada, 1970-1990 . The Coach House Press . Toronto, Canada . 978-2920500044 . 21 December 2019 . en . Book . Oct 1991 . 369 .
  5. Oille . Jennifer . Museum of Post-Habitation . . March 1983 . 12 . 2 . 32 . 27 November 2019 . Vancouver, Canada . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304050428/http://ccca.concordia.ca/c/writing/o/oille/oille011t.html . 4 March 2016 . live .
  6. Miroslav . Miki . Ending All Occupation . Parallelogramme . December 1982 . 8 . 2 . 29 . Parallelogramme.
  7. Web site: Kent Tate: No Rest for the Restless.
  8. Web site: The Chemical Chamber - Western Front.
  9. Web site: Western Front Society Fonds: A finding aid to their records in the UBC Library Rare Books and Special Collections . rbscarchives.library.ubc.ca . University of British Columbia . 19 January 2020.
  10. News: Oraf . Year in Review . Visual Arts . The Georgia Straight . Vancouver, Canada . 30 December 1988 . Oraf . 22.
  11. News: Perry . Art . Stalk the Light . 19 September 1988 . The Province . 43.
  12. News: Gowan . Jesse . Tate exhibit exciting for Art Gallery of Swift Current . . 14 March 2012 . Gowan.
  13. Web site: 2014-02-01 . CURRENTS NEW MEDIA 2014 - CURRENTS New Media . 2023-07-02 . CURRENTS New Media - NEW MEDIA.
  14. Web site: Around the Southwest › Maple Creek News.
  15. Web site: PAST.
  16. Web site: PENEPLAIN . 2023-09-14 . Canadian Art . en-US.
  17. Web site: Peneplain by Kent Tate | Art Gallery of Swift Current.
  18. Web site: Exhibition features filmmaker's view of the prairie's beauty and contrast.
  19. Web site: Catalyst.
  20. Web site: TIME is Love Screening . 2023-07-02 . blueoyster.org.nz . en.
  21. Web site: Yumpu.com . Nature & Culture - International Poetry Film Festival 2021 . 2023-07-02 . yumpu.com . en.
  22. Web site: Julie Oakes . 2023-09-14 . www.julieoakes.com.
  23. Web site: KENT TATE: SELECTED FILMS 2010-2022 . 2023-06-08 . Kamloops Art Gallery . en.
  24. Web site: Kent Tate: Selected Films 2010 - 2022 . 2023-06-08 . CFMDC . en.
  25. Web site: 2022 Fall International Invitation Exhibition_Exhibition Leaflet.pdf . 2023-06-17 . Google Docs.
  26. Web site: Radius Video Out - Vancouver, British Columbia . 2023-06-17 . videoout.ca.
  27. Web site: 한국영상학회 . 한국영상학회 . 2023-06-08 . www.kos-ma.org.
  28. Web site: Live Soundtrack / events / Live Soundtrack #69 . 2023-06-17 . livesoundtrack.org.
  29. Web site: Dawson City International Short Film Festival > Program . 2023-06-08 . www.dawsonfilmfest.com.
  30. https://www.dawsonfilmfest.com/pdfs/DCISFF_2023program.pdf
  31. Web site: Ciclo Audiovisual Experimental ‘Mirada Efímera’ II en el Museo MAR . 2023-09-14 . es.
  32. Web site: Domingo de música y cine en el Museo MAR . 2023-09-14 . Diario La Capital de Mar del Plata . es-ES.
  33. Web site: SENSORES (Sensors). Festival Ecra.
  34. Web site: Kent Tate | Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre.
  35. Web site: Winnipeg Film Group : Isolated Gestures.
  36. Web site: Âkâm'askîhk ᐋᑳᒼ'ᐊᐢᑮ.
  37. https://www.videoout.ca/catalog/radius
  38. Web site: CFMDC: Kent Tate.
  39. https://vucavu.com/en/video-out-distribution/2018/10th-frame
  40. https://www.dawsonfilmfest.com/program2023.html
  41. Saskatchwan Arts Board 2014-2015 Annual Report . Saskatchwan Arts Board 2014-2015 Annual Report . 18–19.
  42. Web site: Top film award goes to Saskatoon producer.
  43. Web site: The Walthamstow International Film Festival 2019 Winners Announcement – E17 Films . en-GB . 2019-11-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190702212108/http://www.e17films.com/podcast/the-walthamstow-international-film-festival-2019-winners-announcement/ . 2019-07-02 . live .
  44. Web site: 2023-07-08 . Interviewing Experimental Filmmaker Kent Tate . 2023-07-22 . SPLICE . en-US.
  45. Web site: Marchand . Laureen . 2012-04-06 . Kent Tate: "Movies for a Pulsing Earth", Art Gallery of Swift Current, March 3 to April 29, 2012 . 2023-09-14 . Galleries West . en-ca.

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