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Kent Tate

Kent Tate (born 1956) is a Canadian artist whose current practice focuses on creating digital media, such as single-channel video.

Early Life and Education

Born in Rivers, Manitoba, Tate spent his childhood in Germany and then in Ottawa. He moved to the United States, with his mother as a teenager, and went on to study painting and film at the University of Utah. Tate was greatly influenced by the artist James Turrell and his land art project Roden Crater. Tate encontered the Spiral Jetty, an earthwork sculpture built in 1970 on the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake, Utah, by the American sculpture Robert Smithson inspiring Tate to focus on issues related to the Earth.

Career

Tate settled in Toronto after returning to Canada in 1980. He began an active period of exhibiting paintings, installations, films, music, and performances. Tate then moved to western Canada, where he continued to exhibit in Vancouver and Victoria, continuing his pursuit to infuse natural materials in his paintings and sculptures from 1984 - 1990.

Kent Tate's The Stalker at the Contemporary Art Gallery: humour, ecology, multi-nationalism, and beautiful 3-D work all in one spot. ^[1]

As in many of his previous works, Tate has adopted a kind of Art Povera sensibility in his choice of materials. In his 1969 description of Art Povera, Italian critic Germano Celant writes: "Animals, vegetables, and minerals take part in the world of art... The artist-alchemist organizes living and vegetable matter into magic things, working to discover the root of things, in order to refind them and extol them. His work, however, does include in its scope the use of the simplest material and natural elements (copper, zinc, earth, water, rivers, sand, snow, fire, grass, air, stone, electricity, uraniaum, sky, weight, gravity, height, growth, etc.) for a description or representation of nature." ^[2] Elemental materials such as salt, sulphur, wax, copper, water, crude oil, house dust and electricity frequently recur in Tate's work. In a direct, almost visceral manner materials are piled, bound, even burnt. For The Stalker Tate has once again used salt, soils, wax, copper, oil and electricity. ^[3]

In the early 1990's Tate visited the Big Island of Hawaii, motivating him to move to Hawaii. Tate spent over 10 years archiving one of the most active volcanoes in the world, located in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

Tate's current single-channel video contains footage of a extensive variety of extraordinary locations captured in nature juxtaposed with footage of ordinary industrial and day-to-day human activities. Tate has developed a keen eye for archetypal form, light and movement which is reflected in his work.

Since returning to Canada in 2005, Tate's work has been shown in national and international film and new media festivals, symposiums, group screenings - exhibitions, and solo gallery installations.

Though gallery visitors are surrounded by moving images, the structure of Kent Tate's Movies for a Pulsing Earth encourages a more active engagement. Viewers start with one monitor, move to anther, try to take in three at once, turn back to earlier scenes, all while the silent viewing figure in the centre watches with them. ^[4]

The Banff Centre, the Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council, BC Arts Council, Hawaii State Arts Foundation, and the Saskatchewan Arts Board have all supported Tate's projects through grants, awards and residencies.

Tate has produced six landscape DVDs.

Tate currently resides in rural southwestern Saskatchewan.

Biography

Selected Exhibitions, Festivals & Screenings

Movies for a Pulsing Earth (multi-channel video – sculpture, solo installation on loan) – organized by Kim Houghtaling Director/Curator Art Gallery of Swift Current (AGSC), Swift Current-Saskatchewan (2013-2016)
Anchor (single-channel video, group show tour) – Eastend Arts Council/Stegner House Visions of Eastend: Under the Living Sky, Moose Jaw, Saskatoon, Assiniboia, Swift Current, Maple Creek, Shaunavon-Saskatchewan (2012-2013)
Compression'(single-channel video, group screening) – Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative at The Artesian Annual Filmpool Premiere Screening, Regina-Saskatchewan (2012)
Circumstantial Evidence - Part 3 ^[5] (included in a looped single-channel screening/curated by Parallel Studios) – “Currents @ ISEA2012” for the ISEA 2012 Machine Wilderness 18th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Albuquerque Museum of Art & History Gem Theater, Albuquerque-New Mexico (2012)
Circumstantial Evidence- Part 3 (single-channel video, experimental documentary screening/curated by Paul Markus) –Expanded Documentary Program @ The Studio - Center for Contemporary Art, Currents 2012: The Santa Fe International New Media Festival, Santa Fe-New Mexico (2012)
Circumstances with some Earth & Sky (multi-channel video, solo exhibition) – Latitude 53 ProjEx Room, Edmonton-Alberta (2012)
“Anchor” (single-channel video, group exhibition) – AGSC Summer Salon Annual Invitational Exhibition, Swift Current-Saskatchewan (2012)
Movies for a Pulsing Earth (multi-channel video – sculpture, solo installation) – AGSC Swift Current-Saskatchewan (2012)
Accelerated' (single-channel video, group screening) – Harbourfront Centre – Planet in Focus Film Series, Toronto-Ontario (2007)
Surface under Sky (single-channel video, group screening) – EarthVision International Film Festival, Santa Cruz-California (2005)
Art Seen'series (broadcast on cable & screened) – East Hawaii Cultural Center, Hilo-Hawaii (1995)
Prosper Sculpture ^[6] (sculpture, group exhibition) – Artropolis Group Show, Vancouver- British Columbia (1990)
The Stalker ^[7] (sculpture, solo installation) – Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver-British Columbia (1988)
The Chemical Chamber (sculpture – painting, solo installation) – Western Front, Vancouver-British Columbia (1986)
No Rest For The Restless ^[8] (sculpture – painting, solo installation) – Pitt International, Vancouver-British Columbia (1985)
Feast From Famine (sculpture – painting, solo installation) – Open Space Gallery, Victoria-British Columbia (1985)
Radiating Suit (painting, group exhibition) – Unit Pitt Gallery The Last Pittsure Show ^[9] , Vancouver-British Columbia (1984)
Uninvited Houseguest ^[10] (sculpture, solo installation) – Open Space Gallery, Victoria-British Columbia (1984)
Vanishing Heat ^[11] (super 8 movie screening, 58 min.) – The Funnel, A.R.C., Toronto-Ontario; Artcite, Windsor-Ontario; Latitude 53,Edmonton-Alberta; Unit Pitt, Vancouver-British Columbia; Open Space, Victoria-British Columbia (1983)
Museum of Post-Habitation ^[12] (sculpture – painting, solo installation) "Ending All Occupation"^[13] (performance) – A.R.C. satellite exhibition, Toronto-Ontario (1982)

External Links

Official website

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References

^ Oraf (22 DEC. 30, 1988-JAN 6, 1989). "Visual Arts Year In Review". THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)
^ Celant, Germano (1969). Art Povera. New York: Washington: Praeger Publishers. p. 225.
^ Talve, Merike (1988). The Stalker. Vancouver, B.C.: Contemporary Art Gallery. p. 4. ISBN 0-920751-21-0.
^ Laureen, Marchand (2012). "Kent Tate: Movies for a Pulsing Earth, March 3 to April 29, 2012, Art Gallery of Swift Current". gallerieswest. 2. 11 (SUMMER): 24-26.
^ Currents 2012. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Parallel Studios. 2012. p. 85.
^ Artropolis 90. Vancouver, B.C.: A.T. Eight Artropolis Society. 1990. p. 43. ISBN 1-895371-03-1.
^ The Stalker. Vancouver, B.C.: Contemporary Art Gallery. 1988. ISBN 0-920751-21-0.
^ Jim, Carrico. "Kent Tate". ISSUE. No. 4. Vol. 2 (12): 21. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); |volume= has extra text (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
^ Pearl, Inlay (1984). "The Last Pittsure Show". ISSUE. 3. 2 (Nov./Dec.): 35. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
^ Robert, Amos (1984). "We made it George". Monday Magazine. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
^ Jim, Carrico (November). "Jim Carrico interviews Kent Tate". ISSUE. 2: 16-18. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Check date values in: |year= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
^ Jennifer, Oille (1983). "Kent Tate Museum of Post-Habitation". Vanguard. 2. 12. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
^ Miki, Miroslav (1982–1983). "Kent Tate's performance "Ending All Occupation", part of his A.R.C. satellite exhibition, "The Museum of Post-Habitation", Oct. 1982. Photo by Miki Miroslav". Parallelogramme. 2. 8: 29. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: date format (link)

[1] Oraf (22 DEC. 30, 1988-JAN 6, 1989). "Visual Arts Year In Review". THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)

[2] Celant, Germano (1969). Art Povera. New York: Washington: Praeger Publishers. p. 225.

[3] Talve, Merike (1988). The Stalker. Vancouver, B.C.: Contemporary Art Gallery. p. 4. ISBN 0-920751-21-0.

[4] Laureen, Marchand (2012). "Kent Tate: Movies for a Pulsing Earth, March 3 to April 29, 2012, Art Gallery of Swift Current". gallerieswest. 2. 11 (SUMMER): 24-26.

[5] Currents 2012. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Parallel Studios. 2012. p. 85.

[6] Artropolis 90. Vancouver, B.C.: A.T. Eight Artropolis Society. 1990. p. 43. ISBN 1-895371-03-1.

[7] The Stalker. Vancouver, B.C.: Contemporary Art Gallery. 1988. ISBN 0-920751-21-0.

[8] Jim, Carrico. "Kent Tate". ISSUE. No. 4. Vol. 2 (12): 21. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); |volume= has extra text (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

[9] Pearl, Inlay (1984). "The Last Pittsure Show". ISSUE. 3. 2 (Nov./Dec.): 35. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

[10] Robert, Amos (1984). "We made it George". Monday Magazine. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

[11] Jim, Carrico (November). "Jim Carrico interviews Kent Tate". ISSUE. 2: 16-18. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Check date values in: |year= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: year (link)

[12] Jennifer, Oille (1983). "Kent Tate Museum of Post-Habitation". Vanguard. 2. 12. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

[13] Miki, Miroslav (1982–1983). "Kent Tate's performance "Ending All Occupation", part of his A.R.C. satellite exhibition, "The Museum of Post-Habitation", Oct. 1982. Photo by Miki Miroslav". Parallelogramme. 2. 8: 29. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: date format (link)

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