Kent Tate
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Kent Tate is a Canadian artist and filmmaker living in British Columbia.{{cite web |last1=Government of Canada |first1=Canadian Heritage |title=Artists in Canada |url=https://app.pch.gc.ca/application/aac-aic/artiste_detailler_bas-artist_detail_bas.app?rID=33823&fID=2&lang=en |website=app.pch.gc.ca |date=17 October 2012 |language=en}} 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.{{cite news |last1=Dowson |first1=Elisabeth |title=Tate's Movies for a Pulsing Earth offer compelling introspection at Gallery |url=https://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-southwest-booster/20120329/281509338150416 |accessdate=13 February 2019 |agency=The Southwest Booster |publisher=Star News Publishing Inc |date=29 March 2012 |ref=Dowson |location=Medicine Hat, Canada |page=A4 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325172213/https://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-southwest-booster/20120329/281509338150416 |archive-date=25 March 2019 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=McNeil |first1=Paul |title=Touring exhibit features work of Shaunavon artist |publisher=The Shaunavon Standard |date=5 March 2013 |ref=The Standard}}
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.{{cite book |author1=Alain-Martin Richard |author2=Clive Robertson |title=Performance In Canada, 1970-1990 |publisher=The Coach House Press |location=Toronto, Canada |isbn=978-2920500044 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8883AQAAIAAJ&q=Kent+tate |accessdate=21 December 2019 |language=en |format=Book |date=Oct 1991 | pages=369 }}
In 1982, Jennifer Oille reviewed Tate's A.R.C. satellite installation in Toronto, the Museum of Post-Habitation, in Vanguard,{{cite journal |last1=Oille |first1=Jennifer |title=Museum of Post-Habitation |journal=Vanguard |date=March 1983 |volume=12 |issue=2 |page=32 |url=http://ccca.concordia.ca/c/writing/o/oille/oille011t.html |accessdate=27 November 2019 |location=Vancouver, Canada |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304050428/http://ccca.concordia.ca/c/writing/o/oille/oille011t.html |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=live }} describing Tate's conversion of a soon to be abandoned dwelling into a museum. The exhibition ended with Tate's performance, Ending All Occupation.{{cite magazine |last1=Miroslav |first1=Miki |title=Ending All Occupation |magazine=Parallelogramme |date=December 1982 |volume=8 |issue=2 |page=29 |ref=Parallelogramme}}
In 1985, the Helen Pitt Gallery in Vancouver presented Tate's exhibition No Rest for the Restless.{{Cite web | url=https://www.helenpittgallery.org/exhibitions/past/archived-events/kent-tate-no-rest-for-the-restless/ |title = Kent Tate: No Rest for the Restless| date=23 August 2010 }}
In 1986, he presented the installation The Chemical Chamber at the Western Front artist-run centre in Vancouver.{{Cite web | url=https://front.bc.ca/events/the-chemical-chamber/ | title=The Chemical Chamber - Western Front}} 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.{{cite web |title=Western Front Society Fonds: A finding aid to their records in the UBC Library Rare Books and Special Collections |url=http://rbscarchives.library.ubc.ca/uploads/r/university-of-british-columbia-library-rare-books-and-special-collections/6/9/69283/WesternFrontSocietyFonds.pdf |website=rbscarchives.library.ubc.ca |publisher=University of British Columbia |accessdate=19 January 2020}}
In 1988, Tate exhibited The Stalker installation at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver.{{cite news |last1=Oraf |title=Year in Review |volume=Visual Arts |publisher=The Georgia Straight |location=Vancouver, Canada |date=30 December 1988 |ref=Oraf |page=22}}{{cite news |last1=Perry |first1=Art |title=Stalk the Light |date= 19 September 1988 |work=The Province |page=43}}
In 2012, Tate exhibited Movies for a Pulsing Earth, a ten-year retrospective video/sculptural installation at the Art Gallery of Swift Current.{{cite news |last1=Gowan |first1=Jesse |title=Tate exhibit exciting for Art Gallery of Swift Current |publisher=Prairie Post |date=14 March 2012 |ref=Gowan}}
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.{{Cite web |date=2014-02-01 |title=CURRENTS NEW MEDIA 2014 - CURRENTS New Media |url=https://currentsnewmedia.org/festivals/currents-2014/ |access-date=2023-07-02 |website=CURRENTS New Media - NEW MEDIA}}
In 2016 Tate's video/sculptural installation “Movies for a Pulsing Earth toured to the Moose Jaw Museum and Gallery in Moose Jaw, Canada.{{Cite web | url=http://www.maplecreeknews.com/editorial/2016/06/09/around-the-southwest-3/ |title = Around the Southwest › Maple Creek News}}{{Cite web | url=http://www.mjmag.ca/past | title=PAST}}
In 2019, Curator Kim Houghtaling presented Tate's solo exhibition Peneplain at the Art Gallery of Swift Current in Saskatchewan, Canada{{Cite web |title=PENEPLAIN |url=https://canadianart.ca/agenda/peneplain/ |access-date=2023-09-14 |website=Canadian Art |language=en-US}}{{Cite web | url=https://artgalleryofswiftcurrent.org/past-exhibitions/peneplain-by-kent-tate/ |title = Peneplain by Kent Tate | Art Gallery of Swift Current}}{{Cite web | url=https://www.prairiepost.com/entertainment/exhibition-features-filmmaker-s-view-of-the-prairie-s-beauty/article_c68ff194-f673-11e9-a101-3fd815461674.html |title = Exhibition features filmmaker's view of the prairie's beauty and contrast}} 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.{{Cite web | url=https://www.kasselerdokfest.de/assets/archive/36_dokfest_programm.pdf | title=Catalyst}}
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.{{Cite web |title=TIME is Love Screening |url=https://blueoyster.org.nz/exhibitions/time-is-love-screening/ |access-date=2023-07-02 |website=blueoyster.org.nz |language=en}}
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.{{Cite web |last=Yumpu.com |title=Nature & Culture - International Poetry Film Festival 2021 |url=https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/fullscreen/65934449/nature-culture-international-poetry-film-festival-2021 |access-date=2023-07-02 |website=yumpu.com |language=en}}
In 2022 the book “Kent Tate: Selected Films 2010 - 2022” with an essay by Julie Oakes was published.{{Cite web |title=Julie Oakes |url=https://www.julieoakes.com/ |access-date=2023-09-14 |website=www.julieoakes.com}}{{Cite web |title=KENT TATE: SELECTED FILMS 2010-2022 |url=https://thegallerystore.ca/products/kent-tate-selected-films-2010-2022 |access-date=2023-06-08 |website=Kamloops Art Gallery |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Kent Tate: Selected Films 2010 - 2022 |url=https://www.cfmdc.org/product-page/kent-tate-selected-films-2010-to-2022 |access-date=2023-06-08 |website=CFMDC |language=en}} 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.{{Cite web |title=2022 Fall International Invitation Exhibition_Exhibition Leaflet.pdf |url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Li42MOZIWrkQ3RYhmH2nf-tJbkUv7Nr_/view?usp=sharing&usp=embed_facebook |access-date=2023-06-17 |website=Google Docs}}{{Cite web |title=Radius {{!}} Video Out - Vancouver, British Columbia |url=https://videoout.ca/catalog/radius?fbclid=IwAR1g_rxenX29Bg1McczBg-lqjYlpnirj-kjE4CN23F8w1AiOglAa6QbwVlk |access-date=2023-06-17 |website=videoout.ca}}
In 2023 Tate exhibited his video “Focal Point” in the KOSMA Spring International Invitational Exhibition
Filmography
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- Sensors 2019{{Cite web | url=https://www.festivalecra.com.br/fullscreen-page/comp-jwi5hy79/fddfbeca-dec4-4183-b962-924b53a5e3d8/27/%3Fi%3D27%26p%3Dv02f4%26s%3Dstyle-jwhwdmif1 |publisher=Festival Ecra|title = SENSORES (Sensors)}}{{Cite web | url=https://www.cfmdc.org/filmmaker/7554 | title=Kent Tate | Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre}}
- Carbon Sky 2019
- Furnace 2019
- Cornucopia 2019
- Rupture 2018
- Catalyst 2018
- Velocity 2017
- Utopia 2017
- Inventory 2016
- Isolated gestures 2014{{Cite web | url=https://www.winnipegfilmgroup.com/films/isolated-gestures/ |title = Winnipeg Film Group : Isolated Gestures}}
- Prairie Grizzly Talks with Kent 2013{{Cite web | url=https://vucavu.com/en/bundles/akam-askihk-%E1%90%8B%E1%91%B3%E1%92%BC-%E1%90%8A%E1%90%A2%E1%91%AE |title = Âkâm'askîhk ᐋᑳᒼ'ᐊᐢᑮ}}
- "Radius" 2022{{cite web | url=https://www.videoout.ca/catalog/radius | title=Radius | Video Out - Vancouver, British Columbia }}{{Cite web | url=https://collections.cfmdc.org/artists/7554 |title = CFMDC: Kent Tate}}
- "Recollection - Premonition" 2021
- "Pressure & Release" 2021
- "Prairie Grizzly's Peneplain" 2020
- "10th Frame" 2018 {{cite web | url=https://vucavu.com/en/video-out-distribution/2018/10th-frame | title=10th Frame - VUCAVU }}
- "No Rest for the Restless" 2017
- "Nautilus" 2016
- "Landing Sites" 2015
- "Focal Point" 2015
- "The Sun Comes out at Night" 2014
- "Transit - Destination" 2013
- "A Tree Gets in the Way" 2013
- "Sightings" 2013
- "Shadows from Magnets" 2012
- "Fire & Water" 2012
- "Air & Earth" 2011
- "Burning Farm House" 2010
- "Prairie Grizzly's Peneplain" 2020
- "Spark" 2021
- "Recollection - Premonition" 2021
- "Pressure & Release" 2021
- "Ark" 2023{{cite web | url=https://www.dawsonfilmfest.com/program2023.html | title=Dawson City International Short Film Festival > Program }}{{Div col end}}
Awards
- 2015: Ruth Shaw Award (Best of Saskatchewan) from Yorkton Film Festival for Isolated Gestures.{{Cite journal |title=Saskatchewan Arts Board 2014-2015 Annual Report |url=https://sk-arts.ca/files/documents/SAB_2014-15_Annual_Report_web.pdf |journal=Saskatchewan Arts Board 2014-2015 Annual Report |pages=18–19}}{{Cite web | url=https://www.yorktonthisweek.com/authors/top-film-award-goes-to-saskatoon-producer-1.1949969 |title = Top film award goes to Saskatoon producer}}
- 2019 "Best Experimental Award" at the Walthamstow International Film Festival for Velocity in London, UK.{{Cite web |url=http://www.e17films.com/podcast/the-walthamstow-international-film-festival-2019-winners-announcement/ |title=The Walthamstow International Film Festival 2019 Winners Announcement – E17 Films |language=en-GB |access-date=2019-11-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190702212108/http://www.e17films.com/podcast/the-walthamstow-international-film-festival-2019-winners-announcement/ |archive-date=2019-07-02 |url-status=live }}
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 [https://artgalleryofswiftcurrent.org/peneplain-by-kent-tate/ exhibition brochure.] [https://artgalleryofswiftcurrent.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/PENEPLAIN-brochure.pdf See PDF of brochure.]
- Sandra Staples (2023) “Interviewing Experimental Filmmaker Kent Tate” Splice Magazine - Spring 2023 Issue {{Cite web |date=2023-07-08 |title=Interviewing Experimental Filmmaker Kent Tate |url=https://www.splicemag.ca/spring-2023/kent-tate-interview |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=SPLICE |language=en-US}}
- Marchand, Laureen (2012) Kent Tate: Movies for a Pulsing Earth, Galleries West Review{{Cite web |last=Marchand |first=Laureen |date=2012-04-06 |title=Kent Tate: "Movies for a Pulsing Earth", Art Gallery of Swift Current, March 3 to April 29, 2012 |url=https://www.gallerieswest.ca/reviews/kent-tate%3A-%22movies-for-a-pulsing-earth%22%2C-art-gallery-of-swift-current%2C-march-3-to-april-29%2C-2012/ |access-date=2023-09-14 |website=Galleries West |language=en-ca}}
References
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External links
- {{official website}}
- {{vimeo user|kenttate}}
- [https://www.winnipegfilmgroup.com/film-makers/film-makers-kent-tate/ Kent Tate] on Winnipeg Film Group
- [https://collections.cfmdc.org/artists/7554 Kent Tate's page on The Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) Website.]
- [https://www.videoout.ca/search-catalogue?op0=contains&filter0=&op1=%3E%3D&filter1=&op2=contains&filter2=kent+Tate&op3=contains&filter3=&op4=contains&filter4= Kent Tate's page on the Satellite Video Exchange Society (VIVO Media Arts Centre) Video Out Distribution website]
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