Jan Albers, John Baldessari, Fiona Banner, Fiona Connor, Kirsten Everberg, Jorge Mendez Blake, Liliana Moro, Jorge Pardo, Jessica Stockholder, SUPERFLEX, Kerry Tribe, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Paul Winstanley & Pae White
“Memory does something funny to time, which we are accustomed to thinking of as linear and progressive. When we remember something, we bring it back to life. Neurologically, it's as though the experience were happening to us in the present. And of course our memories are always subjective, selective and shifting-we remember what we need to, how we need to.” – Kerry Tribe
Kerry Tribe (born in 1973, Boston) lives in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2002 and was a Whitney Independent Study Program Fellow. For over a decade, her time-based works have explored memory and representation through film, video, performance, and installation. Focusing on the mechanics of representation—particularly cinematic representation—its metaphoric potential and its engagement with reality, her art addresses processes of thought and their relationship to subjectivity, narrative, place and time. Employing image, text, sound, structure, and space, her work plays upon the internal workings and ingrained habits of the mind, its unavoidable quirks, flaws, and shifting fault-lines. Stimulating both reflexive experience and a reflection upon such experience, she prompts an unusual type of self- consciousness, a disorienting and discomforting awareness of the gaps between perception, cognition, and memory, the fluidity—and ultimate unreliability—of each.
Solo exhibitions of Tribe’s work have been mounted at SFMOMA; the Wellcome Collection; the Anderson Collection at Stanford University; Kunstmuseum Ravensburg; Carpenter Center for Visual Arts; Emerson Contemporary; The Power Plant; Modern Art Oxford, and Camden Arts Centre. Her films have been screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam; the New York Film Festival, and the BFI London Film Festival among others. Her works are held in collections including The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, SFMOMA, LACMA, The Hammer Museum, The Getty Museum, SMAK Ghent and the Generali Foundation. She is a recipient of the Presidential Residency at Stanford University, a Herb Alpert Award in Film/Video, the Creative Capital award in Visual Art, a USA Artists Award, and a Guna S. Mundheim Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. She was a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in 2005-2006, received her MFA from UCLA in 2002, and was a Whitney Independent Study Program Fellow in 1997-98. Tribe is represented by 1301PE in Los Angeles, where she currently lives and works.
Tribe's rigorously crafted, large-scale projects in film, video and installation form an ongoing investigation into memory, subjectivity, and doubt. Each of the new works which make up Dead Star Light takes shape using different technology - 16mm film, reel-to-reel audio and video - and each considers its material form from a structural standpoint. The works build on one another, and a number of common themes emerge (flight, alienation, erasure) which gain resonance when the projects are taken together as a whole.
Hardcover: 64 pages
Publisher: Arnolfini, Camden Arts Centre, Modern Art Oxford (2010)
Language: English
ISBN: 9780 901138 98 5
Catalogue produced in conjunction with Kerry Tribe's 2005-2006 Guna S. Mundheim Fellowship in the Visual Arts at the American Academy in Berlin and the artist's residency at the International Studio Program of the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
Paperback: 162 pages
Publisher: American Academy in Berlin (2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0978857402
North is West / South is East is organized around a series of drawings collected from strangers I approached at Los Angeles International Airport and asked to make maps of LA. Around half were drawn by people who actually live in Southern California. These tend to trace commutes, diagram neighborhoods, and mark the locations of events and environments significant in the lives of their makers. The rest were made by visitors from all over the world - Australia, Mexico, Hungary, New Jersey. These start to picture the idea of a Los Angeles that precedes it: palm trees and traffic, surfers and freeways, Baywatch, money and grids. Taken together these chance encounters begin to describe a place at once real and imagined. And in drawing from the generosity of strangers at LAX, the project hopes to disturb the instrumental logic of the airport, itself a non-place, where the only reason you visit is to get yourself somewhere else.
Paperback: 55 pages
Publisher: Kerry Tribe (2002)
Edition of 1000
Empathy in Training: Kerry Tribe’s “Standardized Patient” by Rachel Heidenry
Can empathy be taught? The Los Angeles–based artist and filmmaker Kerry Tribe ponders this question in her most recent video installation, “Standardized Patient.” The work examines the relationship between doctors and patients—or, more accurately, between medical students and actors playing patients.
Commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for its “New Work” series, Standardized Patient depicts a number of “Objective Structured Clinical Examinations” (OSCEs). In these simulated clinical environments, medical students practice communication skills with patients portrayed by professional actors known as “Standardized Patients” (SPs). The students take the SPs’ medical histories, ask about symptoms, offer diagnoses, and give recommendations, all the while being watched by professors, who later give feedback.
Tribe’s work evolved from her collaboration with and study of professional clinicians, communication experts, and SPs at Stanford University and the University of Southern California (USC). For this video, Tribe developed four case studies and filled the roles with USC staff participants, medical students, and SPs trained to portray both patient and student characters.
Kerry Tribe's "the word the wall la palabra la pared" by Catalina Lozano
PARQUE GALERíA, Mexico City
May 6–July 1, 2017
For her first exhibition in Mexico City, LA-based artist Kerry Tribe removed the front wall of Parque Galería and transformed it into a makeshift screening room. The crumbling architecture, with its exposed dry walls and frayed edges, introduces an exhibition in which seemingly solid physical and psychical structures are undone.
Tribe's work addresses perception, memory, and language, as well as the technologies used to perceive, record, and describe experience. Combining video, sculpture, and photography, her latest exhibition considers how atypical circumstances—such as alterations in the mechanisms of reception and emission in the brain—create opportunities to analyze the norms by which fitness and unfitness are defined. By paying attention to the anomalous, Tribe tackles new, affective configurations of knowledge.
Kerry Tribe: Exquisite Corpse
Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement
Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève
November 9, 2016–January 29, 2017
Opening week: November 9–13, with a program of performances, special screenings, conversations and round tables
Vernissage: November 9, 6–9pm
1301PE is pleased to announce Kerry Tribe's participation in the celebrated Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement (Biennale of Moving Images) at the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, Switzerland. Tribe's contribution, Exquisite Corpse, was commissioned for the 2016 CURRENT:LA Biennial and will be presented for the first time as a three-channel installation.
A Guide to Current:LA Water, the Biennial Bringing Art to 16 Locations Across the City, by Carren Jao
"This summer, Los Angeles' riverbanks and water-related sites will blossom to life despite the drought... Across 16 locations (15 designated sites plus a "hub") from Bee Canyon Park in Granada Hills to Point Fermin Park in Long Beach, site-specific artwork and public programming by international and Los Angeles-artists will provoke visitors to ponder the tangled web of connections water weaves in our city's history."
Kerry Tribe
CURRENT:LA Public Art Biennial
Nightly screenings of Tribe's 'Exquisite Corpse'
16 July - 14 August, 2016
1301PE is pleased to announce Kerry Tribe's participation in Los Angeles' first public art biennial, CURRENT:LA, which will take place between July 16 - August 14 exploring the theme of 'water'. Tribe's contribution, 'Exquisite Corpse', is an open-air nightly screening of a 51-minute film that traces the 51-mile Los Angeles River from its origins in the San Fernando Valley to its terminus at the Pacific Ocean.
Nightly screenings in Sunnynook River Park at 8:30 p.m. Pre-screening presentations by the Theodore Payne Foundation for Wildflowers and Native Plants every Friday at 7:00 p.m.
A New Project Lets Viewers Explore All 51 Miles of the L.A. River in 51 Minutes, by Catherine Womack
"Artist Kerry Tribe has a deeply ingrained sense of civic duty. When she noticed that the garden at her children's public elementary school was neglected, Tribe got her hands dirty and started planting. She tackled forestry issues in her Eagle Rock neighborhood by running for elected office. And when the city of Los Angeles approached her last summer to submit a project proposal for Current:LA Water, the city's first public art biennial, Tribe developed a large-scale piece that incorporates her passion for community and ecology."
'Current: L.A.' Brings New Art Projects to the City, by Jori Finkel
"Lacking an organization like New York's Creative Time or Public Art Fund, Los Angeles artists have long depended on local museums and scrappy nonprofit galleries to fund of-the-moment public art. Now the city's Department of Cultural Affairs has a new biennial to help fill the gap: "Current: L.A.," which runs for a month starting on Saturday.
This year's theme is water, inspired by the record-setting drought in California as well as city ambitions to transform the Los Angeles River, which for stretches resembles a concrete trench, into a more functional, accessible and even leafy refuge for city-dwellers."
via the LA Times:
Mayor Eric Garcetti announces artists for L.A.'s first public art biennial to be held this summer
More than a dozen artists — including L.A.-based Kori Newkirk, Edgar Arceneaux, Gala Porras-Kim and Michael Parker — have been selected to participate in Los Angeles' first public art biennial, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced at a news conference early Tuesday afternoon.
The "Current:LA Water" exhibition will consist of temporary outdoor installations that will go up throughout the city this summer, all focused on the theme of water.
The project was initiated by the Public Art Division at the Department of Cultural Affairs and is supported by a $1-million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies, and other financial support.
Felicia Filer, the director of the Department of Cultural Affairs' public art division, said in a statement that the line-up is "an exciting group of internationally recognized and emerging talents that are as culturally diverse as the inhabitants of Los Angeles."
This includes video artist Kerry Tribe, conceptual artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, installation artist Teresa Margolles and social practice pioneer Mel Chin. Also on the list are the sound duo Lucky Dragons (Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara), sculptor Candice Lin, sound and performance artist Chris Kallmyer and two artist teams — Josh Callaghan and Daveed Kapoor, and Refik Anadol and Peggy Weil.
Biennial artists were selected by a curatorial committee that includes Ruth Estévez of REDCAT; Rita Gonzalez from LACMA; Karen Moss, an art historian and curator who also teaches at the Otis College of Art and Design; and Irene Tsatsos, the chief curator at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena.
"Current:LA Water" will be on view throughout Los Angeles in July and August.