Kent Tate

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

Kent Tate
Kent Tate at lava flows
Born
Rivers, Manitoba
Known forfilmmaker
Websitewww.kenttate.ca

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.[5] 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 <Floating City> 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
  • Sensors 2019[33][34]
  • Carbon Sky 2019[34]
  • Furnace 2019[34]
  • Cornucopia 2019[34]
  • Rupture 2018[34]
  • Catalyst 2018[35][34]
  • Velocity 2017[36][34]
  • Utopia 2017[34]
  • Inventory 2016[34]
  • Isolated gestures 2014[37][38]
  • Prairie Grizzly Talks with Kent 2013[39]
  • "Radius" 2022[40] [41]
  • "Recollection - Premonition" 2021[34]
  • "Pressure & Release" 2021[34]
  • "Prairie Grizzly’s Peneplain" 2020[34]
  • "10th Frame" 2018 [34][42]
  • "No Rest for the Restless" 2017[34]
  • "Nautilus" 2016[34]
  • "Landing Sites" 2015[34]
  • "Focal Point" 2015[34]
  • "The Sun Comes out at Night" 2014[34]
  • "Transit - Destination" 2013[34]
  • "A Tree Gets in the Way" 2013[34]
  • "Sightings" 2013[34]
  • "Shadows from Magnets" 2012[34]
  • "Fire & Water" 2012[34]
  • "Air & Earth" 2011[34]
  • "Burning Farm House" 2010[34]
  • "Prairie Grizzly’s Peneplain" 2020[34]
  • "Spark" 2021[34]
  • "Recollection - Premonition" 2021[34]
  • "Pressure & Release" 2021[34]
  • "Ark" 2023[43][44]

Awards

Further reading
  • Nye, Jeff (2012). The Hypnosis of Time. Kent Tate, Movies for a Pulsing Earth. Art Gallery of Swift Current catalogue. pp. 2-4 (pp. 1-6).
  • Miller, Marcus (2019) Beauty and Folly. Kent Tate, “PENEPLAIN” Art Gallery of Swift Current exhibition brochure. See PDF of brochure.
  • Sandra Staples (2023) “Interviewing Experimental Filmmaker Kent Tate” Splice Magazine - Spring 2023 Issue [46]
  • Marchand, Laureen (2012) Kent Tate: Movies for a Pulsing Earth, Galleries West Review[47]

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