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

Kent Tate is a Canadian artist and filmmaker living in British Columbia.[1] He creates single-channel video and multi-channel video installations.[2]

Early life

Tate was born in Rivers, Manitoba and grew up in Germany[3] until he moved with his family to Ottawa, Ontario.[4]

Career

Tate is a Canadian artist and filmmaker who has exhibited in Canada since the early 1980s,[5] where according to Tate, he engaged in film and video production, performance and exhibitions in Toronto, Vancouver and Victoria.[6]: 14–15  Jennifer Oille reviewed Tate's 1982 A.R.C. satellite installation in Toronto, the Museum of Post-Habitation, in the Vanguard (magazine),[7] where Oille wrote that Tate converted a soon to be abandoned dwelling into a museum.[7] The exhibition ended with Tate's performance, Ending All Occupation.[8]

In 1988, Tate exhibited The Stalker installation at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver.[9]

Tate exhibited Movies for a Pulsing Earth, a ten-year retrospective video/sculptural installation at the Art Gallery of Swift Current, in 2012.[10]

Awards

Tate's experimental movie Isolated Gestures won the Ruth Shaw Award (Best of Saskatchewan) in the 2015 Yorkton Film Festival in Saskatchewan, Canada.[11]

Tate's film Velocity won the "Best Experimental Award" at the Walthamstow International Film Festival in 2019.[12][13]

References

  1. ^ Government of Canada, Canadian Heritage. "Artists in Canada". app.pch.gc.ca.
  2. ^ Houghtaling, Kim (2016). "Kent Tate: Movies for a Pulsing Earth". gallerieswest.ca. Art Gallery of Swift Current. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  3. ^ McNeil, Paul (5 March 2013). "Touring exhibit features work of Shaunavon artist". The Shaunavon Standard.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Talve, Merike (August 1988). The Stalker. Vancouver, Canada: Contemporary Art Gallery. ISBN 0-920751-21-0.
  7. ^ a b Oille, Jennifer (March 1983). "Museum of Post-Habitation". Vanguard. 12 (2). Vancouver, Canada: 32. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  8. ^ Tate, Kent (December 1982). "Ending All Occupation". Parallelogramme. Vol. 8, no. 2. p. 29.
  9. ^ Oraf (30 December 1988). "Year in Review". Vol. Visual Arts. Vancouver, Canada: The Georgia Straight. p. 22.
  10. ^ Gowan, Jesse (14 March 2012). "Tate exhibit exciting for Art Gallery of Swift Current". Prairie Post.
  11. ^ Cataldo, Sabrina (2015). "Isolated Gestures Wins Award". www.saskartsboard.com (Report). Vol. 2014-15 Annual Report. Regina, Canada: Saskatchewan Arts Board Annual. pp. 18–19. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  12. ^ "The Walthamstow International Film Festival 2019 Winners Announcement – E17 Films". Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  13. ^ "Awards – Congrats to all the filmmakers!". CFMDC Summer newsletter. Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. 2019. Retrieved 24 December 2019.

Further reading

  • Warren, Daina (2017). âkâm'askîhk ᐋᑳᒼ'ᐊᐢᑮ (Across the Land) #3. Prairie Grizzly Talks with Kent. essay. VUCAVU | film selection & essay.
  • Wieczorek, Dieter (2017). Kent Tate | No Rest for the Restless International Competition Short Films #2 — Festival International Signes De Nuit | catalogue. p. 5. (pp 1-25).
  • Cataldo, Sabrina (2015). Isolated Gestures Wins Award. review. Saskatchewan Arts Board | SAB | annual report. pp. 20–21 (pp. 1-64).
  • Nye, Jeff (2012). The Hypnosis of Time. essay. Kent Tate | Movies for a Pulsing Earth. Art Gallery of Swift Current | catalogue. pp. 2-4 (pp. 1-6).
  • Varney, Ed; Rosenberg, Ann (1990). ARTROPOLIA 90: Lineages & Linkages Kent Tate | Prosper. artists. A.T. Eight Artropolis Society | catalogue. p. 43 (pp. 1-141) ISBN 1-895371-03-1
  • Willey, Phillip Manton (1984). OPEN SPACE Survival of the Will, The 1984 Show. Kent Tate | Uninvited House Guest. review. Vanguard. Vol. 13. Vancouver Art Gallery | magazine. p. 41.
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