In November 2001, I ran a casting notice in Backstage West, an LA-based movie industry trade magazine and actors' resource, requesting submissions for an untitled, silent, experimental film. The part description read, "Potential Terrorist: any age, gender, ethnicity. Must look like a terrorist." Each of the 32 actors who responded was invited to participate, three people were unavailable, so in the end 29 people (28 men and one woman) appear in the 16mm black and white silent film, which is structured as a series of one minute screen tests. Throughout the course of the 29 screen tests, a range of physiognomic "types" appear and disappear, each doing little more than looking at the camera, not unlike the screen tests produced by Andy Warhol in the mid 1960s. The last screen test Warhol made was of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, radical and left-wing publisher who died in 1972 in what Italian officials refer to as a thwarted urban terrorist attack: he was found dead under an electricity pylon alongside a quantity of dynamite.
Kerry Tribe's work in a variety of media explores relationships between subjectivity and representation, often by investigating the gray areas between the authentic and the scripted or the collective and the idiosyncratic. She regularly invites the collaboration of friends, strangers and actors. Her work has been included in numerous international exhibition and festival venues, including Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, The Ars Electronica Museum, Linz; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City; Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago; The Project, Los Angeles; The Santa Monica Museum of Art; The Sydney Film Festival; The Impakt Festival, Utrecht; and The European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück. Tribe received her MFA from UCLA in 2002, was a Whitney Independent Study Program Fellow in 1997-98, and received her BA magna cum laude in Art and Semiotics from Brown University in 1997. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
kerrytribe@earthlink.net
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