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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 | |
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| Kent Tate at lava flows | |
| Born | |
| Known for | filmmaker |
| Website | www |
Kent Tate is a Canadian artist and filmmaker living in British Columbia. [1] Tate is known for his single-channel video installation works.
Tate was born in Rivers, Manitoba. He grew up in Germany until he moved with his family to Ottawa, Ontario. [2] [3]
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]
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