{"id":3896,"date":"2011-03-28T07:38:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T13:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=3896"},"modified":"2025-01-09T23:43:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T05:43:29","slug":"tony-cokes-notes-on-evil-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2011\/03\/28\/tony-cokes-notes-on-evil-and-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Cokes: Notes on Evil (and Others)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThursday, March 31, 6:00 pm<\/strong> | Tony Cokes in person!<\/em><\/p>\n

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#3 (Tony Cokes, 2001). Courtesy the artist.<\/dd>\n<\/dl><\/address>\n

In his incisively witty videos and installations, Tony Cokes juxtaposes familiar archival footage, Google searches, and Hollywood imagery with text and popular music to critique the media\u2019s often reductive representations of race and class. This evening\u2019s screening surveys Cokes\u2019 career and includes Black Celebration<\/em> (1988), selections from the Pop Manifesto<\/em> project (2000-04) and his on-going Evil<\/em> series (2004- ), including the US premiere of Evil.20.b.om.h<\/em> (2011). The Pop Manifestos<\/em> connect the history of pop with a larger, nefarious matrix of capitalist production. The Evil<\/em> videos continue the biting aims of the Pop Manifestos<\/em> in a more fervently politicized manner, tackling post 9\/11 political flash points\u2014Abu Ghraib, the Patriot Act, and various speeches of the Bush Administration\u2014to explore the mediated rhetoric surrounding the US\u2019s ongoing \u201cwar on terror.\u201d 1988-2011, Tony Cokes, USA, multiple formats, ca. 75 mins plus discussion.<\/p>\n

TONY COKES<\/strong> (b. 1956, Richmond, VA) is a post-conceptualist whose practice foregrounds social critique. His video, installation, and sound works recontextualize appropriated materials to reflect upon our production as subjects under capital. His recent projects often take the form of text animations with sound functioning as a constitutive, intertextual element, complicating the visual. Cokes\u2019 works have appeared in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Museum of Modern Art, NYC; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, and La Cin\u00e9math\u00e8que Fran\u00e7aise, Paris. His numerous media festival screenings include International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (1993, 2005), International Film Festival Rotterdam (2001 \u2013 2006 and 2009 \u2013 2011), and Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin-Madrid (2003 \u2013 2010). Cokes\u2019s projects have been supported by grants and fellowships from The Rockefeller Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and New York State Council on the Arts. In 2008-9, he was a Resident Scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, CA. Cokes is currently a Professor in Media Production, Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, Providence, RI.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday, March 31, 6:00 pm | Tony Cokes in person! #3 (Tony Cokes, 2001). Courtesy the artist. In his incisively witty videos and installations, Tony Cokes juxtaposes familiar archival footage, Google searches, and Hollywood imagery with text and popular music to critique the media\u2019s often reductive representations of race and class. This evening\u2019s screening surveys […]<\/p>\n

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