By Hannah Nguyen, Deputy Living Arts Editor
“Her work is really strong in the sense that as you spend more time with it, there’s more that you can discover in the world, and you start seeing connections across all the different works that are presented together in the gallery, so it’s rewarding in that sense” - Leonie Bradbury
Kerry Tribe | Orange County Museum of Art
Join visual artist and filmmaker Kerry Tribe for a 10-minute guided walk suitable for all ages and levels of mobility. Walk slowly around your home or briskly around your neighborhood — any time and place you can get ten minutes without distraction.
August 17, 2019 - September 30, 2019
Opening reception:
Thursday, July 25, 5–7 pm
“Mein Herr looked so thoroughly bewildered that I thought it best to change the subject. “What a useful thing a pocket-map is!” I remarked. “That’s another thing we’ve learned from your Nation,” said Mein Herr, “map-making. But we’ve carried it much further than you. What do you consider the largest map that would be really useful?” “About six inches to the mile.”
“Only six inches!” exclaimed Mein Herr. “We very soon got to six yards to the mile. Then we tried a hundred yards to the mile. And then came the grandest idea of all! We actually made a map of the country, on the scale of a mile to the mile!” “Have you used it much?” I enquired. “It has never been spread out, yet,” said Mein Herr: “the farmers objected: they said it would cover the whole country, and shut out the sunlight! So we now use the country itself, as its own map, and I assure you it does nearly as well. Now let me ask you another question. What is the smallest world you would care to inhabit?”
Lewis Carrol, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded
Chapter 11: “The Man in the Moon” 1893
Kerry Tribe has had solo exhibitions at the Anderson Collection, Stanford University, Palo Alto; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco (SF MoMA); Parque Galeria, Mexico City' 356 Mission Rd., Los Angeles; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Carpenter Center, Cambridge; and the Contemporary Art Center, Irvine. She has staged performances at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco and the TATE Modern. In 2017 she received an Herb Alpert Award in Film and Video, a California Community Foundation Fellowship in 2015, an Artadia Award in 2013, and both a USA Artist Fellowship and Creative Capital Grant in 2012. In 2016 the City of Los Angeles awarded Tribe a public commission to produce Exquisite Corpse, a film about the Los Angeles River, which will screen nightly on the High Line in New York, Summer 2018.
Rirkrit Tiravanija was born in 1961 in Buenos Aires. For over twenty-five years, he has focused on the social ties connecting audience, artwork and artist, blurring the boundary between art and life. He is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts at Columbia University, and is a founding member of The Land Foundation, an educational-ecological project in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He is the winner of the 2010 Absolut Art Award and the 2004 Hugo Boss Prize awarded by the Guggenheim Museum. Notable exhibitions include On Air at the Centre Pompidou (2012), Less Oil More Courage at the Kunsthalle Fridericianum (2009), and retrospectives at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld (2010), Serpentine Gallery (2005), and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2004). He recently presented Soup / No Soup at La Triennale 2012 in Paris, for which he transformed the main nave of Grand Palais into a communal banquet featuring a meal of Tom Ka soup. do we dream under the same sky?, Chaos Omotesando, Tokyo, (2018); The NG Teng Fong Roof Garden Commision: Rirkrit Tiravanija, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore, (2018)
For further information please contact: Brian Butler or Susan Sherrick at (323) 938 5822.
Exquisite Corpse Trailer
Kerry Tribe
Exquisite Corpse Screening for La Reina de Los Angeles
Descanso Gardens
1418 Descanso Dr, La Cañada Flintridge, CA 91011
Thursday, October 4, 7pm
Without the Los Angeles River, there would quite simply be no Los Angeles. While the precise geography is unknown, historians have estimated it’s changed course at least nine times in the first half of the nineteenth century alone. La Reina de Los Ángeles will present a discussion of our current relationship with water, using the Los Angeles River as an entry point. Through contemporary art works, documentary films, historic materials and special programming, La Reina de Los Ángeles will explore the history, infrastructure and community around this critical resource.
Originally screened in 2016 at the CURRENT:LA Water Public Art Biennial, Exquisite Corpse is a 51-minute film that traces the 51-mile length of the LA River from its origin to its ocean terminus, capturing its varied landscapes, neighborhoods, creatures, and communities along the way. The film is presented as part of the La Reina de Los Ángeles exhibition curated by Debra Scacco at the Sturt Haaga Gallery.
Kerry Tribe, Exquisite Corpse, still, 2016. Single channel video with sound.
Kerry Tribe
Exquisite Corpse
On the High Line Channel 14, at 14th Street
May 24 - July 18, 2018
Tribe presents Exquisite Corpse (2016), a 51-minute film that follow the Los Angeles River for its 51-mile length from the San Fernando Valley to the Pacific Ocean. The film will play daily, from dusk to park close.
July 17, 2018
Kerry Tribe will give an artist's talk with associate curator, Melanie Kress, exploring the history, production, and presentation of Tribe's video.
View of the High Line.
The Un-Private Collection: Kerry Tribe + Lynne Tillman on Joseph Beuys
Thursday, May 17th, 2018 | 7:30 PM
Oculus Hall at The Broad
221 S. Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012
$15
Organized by The Broad and X-TRA, this special three-part iteration of The Un-Private Collection addresses the legacy of German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys in relation to contemporary art practice. Each program highlights a theme central to Beuys and invites contemporary artists to discuss their work and ideas through that lens.
New York writer Lynne Tillman and Los Angeles visual artist Kerry Tribe will speak on lies and myth. Joseph Beuys is a controversial figure in art history, in large part because of his constructed biography: Beuys often recanted his dramatic origin story, a swirl of truth and lies, contributing to his mythic stature. In their work, Tillman and Tribe both investigate the construction of narrative and knowledge. This conversation will explore the ways that Beuys, Tillman and Tribe each raise questions about how identity shapes public reception and perception. Moderated by Shana Lutker, a Los Angeles artist and co-organizer of this series for X-TRA.
Lynne Tillman by Craig Mod; Kerry Tribe by Panic Studio
The Un-Private Collection
Thursday, May 17, 2018 | 7:30 p.m.
Oculus Hall at The Broad
221 S. Grand Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Organized by The Broad and X-TRA, this special three-part iteration of The Un-Private Collection addresses the legacy of German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys in relation to contemporary art practice. Each program highlights a theme central to Beuys and invites contemporary artists to discuss their work and ideas through that lens.
New York writer Lynne Tillman and Los Angeles visual artist Kerry Tribe will speak on lies and myth. Joseph Beuys is a controversial figure in art history, in large part because of his constructed biography: Beuys often recanted his dramatic origin story, a swirl of truth and lies, contributing to his mythic stature. In their work, Tillman and Tribe both investigate the construction of narrative and knowledge. This conversation will explore the ways that Beuys, Tillman and Tribe each raise questions about how identity shapes public reception and perception. Moderated by Shana Lutker, a Los Angeles artist and co-organizer of this series for X-TRA.
Video still from Standardized Patient.
Among its many characters, Los Angeles-based artist Kerry Tribe’s sharp and riveting video at SFMOMA, Standardized Patient, features a woman in a doctor’s office who isn’t quite sure why she’s there.
Standardized Patient tracks doctors-in-training interacting with “standardized patients”: actors portraying characters with specific motivations, family backgrounds, personalities, and sets of symptoms. The camera follows the doctors as they discern the actor-patients’ ailments and communicate a treatment plan.
New Work: Kerry Tribe, 2017. Installation view, SFMOMA. Photo: Katherine Du Tiel.
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.
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Kerry Tribe, still from Exquisite Corpse, 2016
Lecture with Kerry Tribe
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - 7PM
Seating is on a first come, first-served basis.
Minnesota Street Project
1275 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
Kerry Tribe works primarily in film, video, 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.
New Work: Kerry Tribe is on view at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from October 7, 2017 to February 25, 2018.
Age of Terror: Art since 9/11
26 October 2017 - 28 May 2018
Imperial War Museum, London
Lambeth Road
London SE1 6HZ
See the UK's first major exhibition of artists' responses to war and conflict since the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001. Age of Terror: Art since 9/11 will feature more than 40 British and international artists.
The complex issues surrounding the global response to 9/11, the nature of modern warfare and the continuing state of emergency in which we find ourselves have become compelling subject matter for contemporary artists.
Kerry Tribe, Here & Elsewhere, 2002, 2-channel DVD projection, 10:30 minutes loop,
Stills from video
Alice in Wonderland
Oct 21, 2017 - Apr 02, 2018
OÖ Kulturquartier
OK-Platz 1
4020 Linz, Austria
For more than 150 years the adventures of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland have moved not only the imagination of children, but are also inspiration for art, mathematics, physics and, of course films.
As if in a dream Alice falls from one queer scene into another, and despite of the confusion and the nonsense she tries not to loose the thread. The roles are exchanged: In the story, Alice suddenly finds herself in the position of the adult and the rational. She grows, shrinks and jumps from one level of meaning to another, she finds herself in a world where everything is possible. A proper portion of curiosity is her great driving force. But also thanks to her tremendous self-confidence, she does not stop in spite of occasional fear.
The exhibition area of the OÖ Kulturquartier with the OK in its great variety and complex architecture is an ideal backdrop for such a wonder world. Focusing on key elements of Lewis Carroll's classic, such as the dream, nonsense, the queer, time, order and chaos, but also play, the exhibition tells a wondrous narration with performative elements throughout the exhibition spaces.
Kerry Tribe, Standardized Patient, 2017 (detail, production still); commissioned by SFMOMA
New Work: Kerry Tribe
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
7 October 2017 - 25 February 2018
SFMOMA
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
1301PE is pleased to announce the opening of Kerry Tribe's exhibition, New Work, at SFMOMA. The exhibition premieres an SFMOMA commission by the Los Angeles–based artist and filmmaker that offers insight into the work of Standardized Patients—professional actors who portray patients in a simulated clinical environment as part of medical students' training. The multi-channel video installation explores questions of empathy, communication, and performance, and was developed through Tribe's close collaboration with professional clinicians, communication experts, and Standardized Patients at Stanford University and the University of Southern California. In this, Tribe's first solo exhibition at a major U.S. museum, the artist builds upon her history of engaging individuals from the acting and medical communities and exploring the willing suspension of disbelief.
View of Kerry Tribe's "the word the wall la palabra la pared," Parque Galería, Mexico City, 2017.
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.
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Kerry Tribe, Rinse and Repeat, 2017. 10 minutes, single channel video with sound, vid-eo (still), courtesy of the artist.
Kerry Tribe
Chalk Circles
Saturday, June 17, 2017 to Sunday, August 20, 2017
Opening Reception June 17, 4-9pm
REDCAT
631 West 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
The Gallery at REDCAT presents Chalk Circles, an exhibition and series of related performances and events that consider the ways in which performing and visual arts intersect. Curated by Ruth Estévez and José Luis Blondet, the exhibition Chalk Circles stages a number of ways in which artists think critically about live actions, theater and performance.
Artists in this exhibition document, reimagine, and rearticulate acting methodologies to investigate performance as a form of production, not just as an event-based form. Their projects center on mixed traditions of movement, acting and gesture, as well as pedagogic models. The role of the actor, the figure of the performer, and their different perspectives in the construction of a character inform several projects in the exhibition, while others focus on the frictions of a body in a fictive—theatralized—space.
Chalk Circles features works and commissions by local and international artists who engage in theatricality and performativity as a tool to feed the instability of such terms. Artists included in the exhibition: Carola Dertnig, Dora García and Peio Aguirre, Adrià Julià, Joachim Koester, David Levine, Emily Mast, Silke Otto-Knapp, Santiago Roldós and Pilar Aranda (Muégano Teatro), Catherine Sullivan and Kerry Tribe.
Kerry Tribe, still from Exquisite Corpse, 2016.
Kerry Tribe: Exquisite Corpse
Pérez Art Museum Miami
Thursday, April 20th, 7 pm
PAMM will screen Exquisite Corpse, a 51-minute installation and single-channel film that follows the 51-mile Los Angeles River from its origins in the San Fernando Valley northeast of the city to its terminus at the Pacific Ocean. Using a detailed map as a script, Tribe's camera captures the river's varied landscapes, neighborhoods, inhabitants, and communities through a string of meditative encounters that collectively describe the site, and the city, at this juncture in its history. Tribe's film is shown as part of Faena Art's presentation of highlights from the Biennale of Moving Images, on view at Faena Art April 13-30, 2017.
Black Tourmaline (Front) & Las escaleras, 2017
Kerry Tribe: the word the wall la palabra la pared
Parque Galeria,
Puebla 170. Roma Norte
06700. Mexico City DF
May 6 - July 1, 2017
Tribe's new works in video, sculpture and photography playfully literalize ideas around linguistic communication, transnational relations and empathy. The exhibition continues Tribe's investigation of the "speaking subject" who narrates their experience for an audience. The show is organized around a video in English and Spanish called Afasia (2017) which features the artist's friend photographer Christopher Riley, who, at the age of 43, suffered a left hemisphere stroke that severely limited his ability to speak, write and understand language. Despite these challenges, he passionately communicates an appreciation of his life and the vast world around him. The video is projected in a make-shift screening room built from the remains of what had previously been the gallery's front wall.
Top Five Buddy Cop Films, Installation view, Steve Turner, March 2017
Top Five Buddy Cop Films
Amanda Ross-Ho & Diedrick Brackens, Larry Johnson & Adam Stamp, Joel Kyack & Lisa Anne Auerbach, Kerry Tribe & Edgar Bryan, Lila de Magalhaes & Roni Shneior, curated by Santi Vernetti
Steve Turner
6830 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90038
March 23 – April 29, 2017
Top Five Buddy Cop Films is an exhibition of collaborations between five pairs of Los Angeles-based artists, curated by Santi Vernetti.
On paper, the practices of Kerry Tribe and Edgar Bryan couldn't be more dissimilar. Tribe works mostly in film, video, and installation, while Bryan works mostly in painting, book design, and clay. What they share is a collection of overlapping interests and approaches to making. Both explore the boundaries and possibilities of gesture and representation within their chosen mediums. They also share a rich history of collaboration with other artists, friends, and strangers.
A still of the Los Angeles River from Kerry Tribe's "Exquisite Corpse" 2016.
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.
Kerry Tribe, "Exquisite Corpse." | Photo: Panic Studio LA.
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."
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