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Kent Tate

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Kent Tate
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BornRivers, Manitoba, Canada
💼 Occupation
Film director, producer, cinematographer, installation artist, sound design
🏅 AwardsRuth Shaw Award (Best of Saskatchewan) - 2015 Yorkton Film Festival

Kent Tate is a Canadian installation[1][2][3] and video artist[4] who creates single-channel video and multi-channel video/sculptural installations[5].

Biography

Kent Tate was born in Rivers, Manitoba[4] into a military family - spending his childhood in Germany[6] and Ottawa, Canada.[7] Tate is an award-winning Canadian artist/filmmaker whose work explores our natural and manufactured worlds.[2]

Awards, Grants and Residencies

Tate has received support for his artistic practices through various awards, grants and artist residencies, such as the following:[5][8] Yorkton Film Festival Ruth Shaw Award,[5][9][10][11][12][13][14][8][15] Canada Council for the Arts[5][8] individual artist grants[16][17][18] and travel grant,[19] British Columbia Arts Council[5][8] cultural award, Saskatchewan Arts Board[5][8] individual artist grants [20][21] and travel grant,[22] Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts[5][8] award, the Banff Centre[5] for Arts and Creativity artist residency[8], the Wallace Stegner House[5] artist residency,[8] and the University of Lethbridge Faculty of Fine Arts' Gushul Studio[5] and Cottage artist residency.

Tate's "Isolated Gestures" (2015) won the Ruth Shaw Award (Best of Saskatchewan)[9] and was nominated for a Golden Sheaf Award (Experimental)[9] in the 2015 Yorkton Film Festival in Saskatchewan.[5][10][11][12][13][14][8][15]

Early Career

Tate exhibited in Toronto and Vancouver in the 1980's to the 1990's; first working in performance,[23] film[24][25] and video before shifting to installation.[26] "Kent Tate's career has involved a broad spectrum of styles and media, maintaining throughout a consistent thread of willfully perverse independence".[27]

Tate gained attention with his performance installation "Museum of Post-Habitation" (1982) a transformation of a crumbling dwelling.[24] Tate's performance "Ending All Occupation" (1982) concluded his A.R.C. satellite installation "Museum of Post Habitation".[28]

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Kent Tate: "Museum of Post-Habitation" - Toronto, Canada

Jennifer Oille (writer)[29] wrote the following in her review of '"Museum of Post-Habitation":

— Tate's studio, not in the trendy art part of town, was in a two storey white house looking to have been built about 1800. Tate's conception of a "Museum of Post-Habitation" was the ultimate logic for this building and its prospectus of abandonment..." [30] Like any museum everywhere, this was to display the middle links, the connections between person, place and time, here furniture and appliances plus some pre-fab 'effigies' — candle masks, the wicks burning, the wax melting to lie lumpen on window sills and floors. [31]

After Tate's screening of "Vanishing Heat" (1983) at Unit/Pitt Gallery, an optically printed Super 8 epic; Tate's only film print was stolen in route to San Francisco at the Greyhound bus station in Seattle.[25] [24] The "outstanding piece" of the show was "Radiation Suit" (1984) at Unit/Pitt's The Last Pittsure Show in Vancouver;[32] and "Radiation Suit" was highlighted on cover of the Nov 1984 ISSUE magazine.[33].

Installation Art

Tate's "The Stalker" at the Contemporary Art Gallery: humour, ecology, multi-nationalism, and beautiful 3-D work all in one spot.[34] Tate used humor to point out environmental concerns.[35] The "Ready Kilowatt" symbol represented the unrestrained industrial expansion. The Polar bear "The Outlaw" - narrowly missed by one of the wax handled spears "Lightning Rods" - represented as a creature of the oil industries last frontier.[26]Tate incorporated a sense of Arte Povera into the choice of material that recurred in his work. Tate used salt, soils, wax, copper, oil and electricity in "The Stalker".[3]

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Kent Tate: "The Stalker" (1988) Contemporary Art Gallery - Vancouver, Canada

Merike Talve (author, curator)[36] wrote the following in the Contemporary Art Gallery "The Stalker" curatorial essay[3]:

— Like many of Tate's past projects, The Stalker is ambitious, theatrical, playful and ironic. Kent Tate's installation work has always demonstrated a skillful handling of materials and the continual development of his distinct, sardonic critique of the West's post-industrial economic, social and spiritual collapse. Significantly, he continues to choose the mediums which fit his ideas - the return to performance, video, film or painting are all possibilities.[37]

Tate presented a sculptural installation and multi-channel retrospective of his experimental movies in this solo exhibition.[4] "Movies for a Pulsing Earth" (2012) allows viewers to explore places both far and near, real or imagined.[7] The theme that Tate explored was nature and our relationship to it.[38] The feeling of timelessness within the individual videos suggest Tate stepping around or beyond the values of many of his colleagues in the Canadian video art practice.[4]

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Kent Tate: "Movies for a Pulsing Earth" (2012) Art Gallery of Swift Current - Canada

Jeff Nye (Canadian artist, writer, teacher and curator)[39] expressed the following in Art Gallery of Swift Current's exhibition essay "The Hypnosis of Time" for Kent Tate's "Movies for a Pulsing Earth" installation.:

— "To capture these utopias, where the pace of time passing is abstracted into an undulating, liquid flow, Tate spends hours traveling and searching. The awe-inspiring reality of these incredible, undomesticated sites is key to understanding the artist's project. Beyond delivering that message, Tate also seeks the reward of being there when the light really is like that. These are places where the state of stillness so fetishized in popular meditation workshops could feel attainable.[40]

The award-winning artist, Kent Tate, featured his stunning videos in "Movies for a Pulsing Earth" at Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery.[41] a tour organized by the Art Gallery of Swift Current.[5][6][42] Tate, a painter and sculptor turned filmmaker, used video, sculpture and sound to create this installation[43] Tate explored the world beyond his own personal experience.[44] This exhibition represents the culmination of years of careful observation.[45]

Filmography

During a summer trip in 1990 to the Arctic - originally to see the Pingos (mounds of earth-covered ice found that can reach up to 70 metres in height) and a boat journey along the MacKenzie River - helped to ignite this interest and ultimately led Tate to a more serious pursuit of video production.[6]

Kent Tate: Filming active lava flows in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, USA

In 1992 Tate visited the Big Island of Hawaii and was intrigued by the Kilauea Volcano - motivating him to move to Hawaii where he lived for over 12 years videotaping and archiving the active volcano in the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.[6] In 2003, Tate released the first of a series of DVD's; "The Birthing Earth". Tate owned and operated Pulsing Earth Media that produced and distributed a total of six DVDs about mountain, prairie, desert and volcanic landscapes in western North America and Hawaii.[6] In 2005 Tate returned to Canada with his wife Cheryl and settled in southwestern Saskatchewan where they lived for seven years - researching, exploring and archiving this corner of the Great Plains. Tate was profoundly inspired by the beauty in nature, passionately concerned about the consequences human effect has on Earth, and driven to share with viewers what he witnessed.[5]

Tate was inspired by the integrity and poetic standards set by Wallace Stegner in his seminal book "Wolf Willow" coupled with an opportunity to attend an artist residency at the Wallace Stegner house, a place that Stegner had lived as a child.[12][42] Tate incorporated shots captured during this residency into a series of single-channel, silent looping movies for the project "Isolated Gestures - Landing Sites".[11] The movie "Isolated Gestures" won the Ruth Shaw Award (Best of Saskatchewan)[9] and was nominated for a Golden Sheaf Award (Experimental)[9] in the 2015 Yorkton Film Festival.[5][10][11][12][13][14][8]

In 2019 Tate released four new movies: Sensors - Cornucopia - Furnace - Carbon Sky which chronicle a project that he began in 2016 focusing on the Interior Plateau of British Columbia.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Tate, Kent. "Artists in Canada". Government of Canada: Artists in Canada Reference Library. National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Tate Bio". VUCAVU. Toronto, Canada: CCDIAM / CCIMAD c/o CFMDC. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Merike, Talve (1988). "Kent Tate: The Stalker". Vancouver, Canada: Contemporary Art Gallery. pp. 1–6. ISBN 0-920751-21-0. Search this book on
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Marchand, Laureen (2012). "Kent Tate: Movies for a Pulsing Earth". GalleriesWest. No. Summer. pp. 24–26. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  5. ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 Houghtaling, Kim (2016). "Movies for a Pulsing Earth by Kent Tate". Swift Current, Canada: Art Gallery of Swift Current. pp. 1–6. Search this book on
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 McNeil, Paul (5 March 2013). "Touring exhibit features work of Shaunavon artist". The Shaunavon Standard.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 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. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  8. ↑ 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 "CURRENTS". Currents New Media. Parallel Studios. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 "2015 Winners & Nominees". Yorkton Film Festival. YFF. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Barker, Thom (May 2015). "Conceptual hip hop film tops festival". Yorkton, Canada: Yorkton This Week.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Cataldo, Sabrina (2015). "Isolated Gestures Wins Award". Saskatchewan Arts Board Annual Report. Regina, Canada. pp. 18–19. Retrieved 10 January 2019. Search this book on
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Wills, Ethel (7 Apr 2015). "Former Stegner house resident Kent Tate: Nominee Golden Sheaf Award - Yorkton Film Festival" (PDF). Eastend, Canada: Eastend Echo, Vol 4, Issue 14. p. 5.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 White, Donny (9 Jun 2016). "Around the Southwest". Maple Creek, Canada: Maple Creek & Southwest Advance Times. Maple Creek News. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 "Southwest artist/filmmaker wins major award at Yorkton Film Festival". Medicine Hat, Canada: Star News Publishing Inc. The Southwest Booster. 1 June 2015.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 "WFG Films Win Golden Sheaf Awards". Winnipeg Film Group. Winnipeg, Canada: Winnipeg Film Group. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  16. ↑ "Grants for Performance Art". Canada Council AR. Ottawa, Canada: The Canada Council. 1983/1984 Supplement (27th Annual book): 61. Jan 1985.
  17. ↑ "Visual Arts Grant". Canada Council AR. Ottawa, Canada: The Canada Council. 1985/1986 Supplement (29th Annual book): 68. Spring 1987.
  18. ↑ "Project Grant". Canada Council AR. Ottawa, Canada: The Canada Council. 1989/1990 Supplement (33rd Annual book): 74. Winter 1991.
  19. ↑ "Recipients - prior to 2017 (Travel Grants to Media Artists)". Canada Council for the Arts. Canada Council for the Arts. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  20. ↑ Independent Artist (Creative Established) Media Arts Grant (PDF). SAB Annual journal. Saskatchewan Arts Board. 2012. p. 40. Retrieved 12 February 2019. Search this book on
  21. ↑ "Independent Artist Visual Arts Award" (PDF). SAB Annual book. Regina, Canada: Saskatchewan Arts Board (2013–2014): 46. 2014. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  22. ↑ "Visual Arts Travel Grant" (PDF). SAB Annual journal. Regina, Canada: Saskatchewan Arts Board (2012–2013): 62. 2012. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  23. ↑ Alain-Marin Richard; Clive Robertson (January 1991). "Performance Au Canada, 1970-1990" (Book) (in French and English). Quebec, Canada: Québec, Qc: Les Éditions Intervention; Toronto, Ont.: The Coach House Press. ISBN 978-2920500044. Retrieved 10 January 2019.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link) Search this book on
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 Carrico, Jim (Nov 1983). "Jim Carrico interviews Kent Tate". ISSUE. Vol. 1 no. 2. Vancouver, Canada: Unit 306 Society. pp. 16–18.
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 "Kent Tate: Vanishing Heat". Helen Pitt Gallery. UNIT/PITT Projects. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
  26. ↑ Carrico, Jim (Nov 1983). "Jim Carrico interviews Kent Tate". ISSUE. Vol. 1 no. 2. p. 16. Kent Tate's career has involved a broad spectrum of styles and media, maintaining throughout a consistent thread of willfully perverse independence
  27. ↑ "Ending All Occupation". Parallelogramme. Vol. 8 no. 2. December 1982. p. 29.
  28. ↑ "Selected Writings: Oille, Jennifer". The Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
  29. ↑ Oille, Jennifer (March 1983). "Kent Tate: Museum of Post Habitation". Vanguard. Vol. 12. Vancouver, Canada: Vancouver Art Gallery. p. 32. Retrieved 1 March 2019. Tate's studio, not in the trendy art part of town, was in a two storey white house looking to have been built about 1800.
  30. ↑ Oille, Jennifer (March 1983). "Kent Tate: Museum of Post Habitation". Vanguard. Vol. 12. Vancouver, Canada: Vancouver Art Gallery. p. 32. Retrieved 1 March 2019. Like any museum everywhere, this was to display the middle links, the connections between person, place and time, here furniture and appliances plus some pre-fab 'effigies' — candle masks, the wicks burning, the wax melting to lie lumpen on window sills and floors.
  31. ↑ InLay, Pearl (Nov 1984). "The Last Pittsure Show". ISSUE. Vol. 2 no. 2. Vancouver, Canada: Unit 306 Society. pp. 35–36.
  32. ↑ "Radiation Suite". ISSUE. Vol. 2 no. 2. Vancouver, Canada: Unit 306 Society. Nov 1984. p. Cover.
  33. ↑ Oraf (30 December 1988). "Visual Arts: Year in Review" (Arts). The Georgia Straight. p. 22. "Tate's "The Stalker" at the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver): humour, ecology, multi-nationalism, and beautiful 3-D work all in one spot".
  34. ↑ Perry, Art (19 September 1988). "Stalk the Light". Art Scene. The Province.
  35. ↑ "Publications by Curator: Talve, Merike". ArcPost. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  36. ↑ Merike, Talve (1988). "The Stalker". Vancouver, Canada: Contemporary Art Gallery. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-920751-21-3. Like many of Tate's past projects, The Stalker is ambitious, theatrical, playful and ironic. Kent Tate's installation work has always demonstrated a skillful handling of materials and the continual development of his distinct, sardonic critique of the Wet's post-industrial economic, social and spiritual collapse. Significantly, he continues to choose the mediums which fit his ideas - the return to performance, video, film or painting are all possibilities. Search this book on
  37. ↑ Gowan, Jesse (14 March 2012). ""Tate exhibit exciting for Art Gallery of Swift Current"". Prairie Post.
  38. ↑ "About Jeff". Jeff Nye. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
  39. ↑ Nye, Jeff (2012). "The Hypnosis of Time (essay)". Swift Current, Canada: Art Gallery of Swift Current: 1. To capture these utopias, where the pace of time passing is abstracted into an undulating, liquid flow, Tate spends hours traveling and searching. The awe-inspiring reality of these incredible, undomesticated sites is key to understanding the artist's project. Beyond delivering that message, Tate also seeks the reward of being there when the light really is like that. These are places where the state of stillness so fetishized in popular meditation workshops could feel attainable.
  40. ↑ Hellings, Scott (25 May 2016). "Kent Tate's visuals weave a connected story" (21, Volume 9). Moose Jaw, Canada: Moose Jaw Express.
  41. ↑ 42.0 42.1 McNeil, Paul (23 December 2013). "Local filmmaker receives Visual Artist Award". The Shaunavon Standard.
  42. ↑ ""Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery Guide"" (Sept 2015 - June 2016). Moose Jaw, Canada: Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery. September 2015. pp. 5, 10.
  43. ↑ Worobec, Theresa (26 May 2016). "Exploring the Universal". Moose Jaw, Canada: Moose Jaw Times Herald.
  44. ↑ "Kent Tate: Movies for a Pulsing Earth" (Report). Moose Jaw, Canada: Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery. 2016. pp. 11, 38, 39. Retrieved 14 February 2019.

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