Not Quite Myself Today
Video Works by Eight Artists

Arizona State University Art Museum
at the Nelson Fine Arts Center

December 15, 2001 - March 3, 2002

Kerry Tribe

Kerry Tribe
Lives and works in Los Angeles

Double
Double, a 10:25-minute single channel video work by Kerry Tribe, addresses an issue with which most human beings have grappled at some point: how the world perceives and interprets them, their lives and their work. Placing a call for actresses that fit her own physical description, Tribe received photographic head shots in the mail with resumes. After scanning through them, she invited individual actresses for auditions. During the auditions, Tribe would talk about herself as a video artist and reflect on subjects ranging from her first impressions of Los Angeles to her background, family, and even current projects.

After giving each actress a bit of personal history, she would turn the camera on the actress and ask her to assume the identity of Tribe. The actress would then be requested to describe what it was like to be a recently transplanted New York video artist attending graduate school at UCLA and to explain the concepts of Tribe's work, armed with just the brief, unscripted knowledge the actresses were able to glean after their conversation with the artist.

The result is a series of documentary-style monologues giving us raw, sometimes stereotypical, perceptions of being an artist and the insecurities and struggle involved. Though Tribe never appears in the video, the viewer is somehow left with an indelible impression of an actual encounter with the artist.

About the Artist
Kerry Tribe received a BA from Brown University in New York, attended the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and is expected to receive her MFA from the University of California Los Angeles in 2002. Her work has been included in the exhibitions: Kerry Tribe, MWMWM Gallery, New York, NY; Genius Loci, Barnsdall Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Pusan Biennial, Pusan, Korea; Sitegeist, Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA; Fact-FictionOldenburg, Germany; As I Love You You Become More Pretty, Los Angeles, CA; d>art 00, Sydney Film Festival, Sydney, Australia; VideoGallery International Festival for Film, Video and New Media Travelling Exhibition; VIPER, Lucerne, Switzerland; Thaw00: Fifth Annual Festival of Video, Film and Digital Media, Iowa City, IA; Unpacking, curated by Cletus Dalglish-Schomer and Christopher Ho, New York, NY; 4eme Manifestation Internationale Video et Art Electronique, Chamo Libre, Montreal; Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Five29Ninety9, organized by Matthew Buckingham and Kristin Lucas, New York, NY; Scope 3, Artists Space, New York, NY; Open Studios, Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York, NY; Local Color, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY; What's Goin' On, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Vision 21, The Tunnel, New York, NY; Annual Juried Exhibition, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI; The Alternative Home, Sarah Doyle Gallery, Providence, RI; and Deception Room, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA.

John D. Spiak
Curatorial Museum Specialist
Arizona State University Art Museum

For more information contact John Spiak at spiak@asu.edu.

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