Описание: The first monograph on the work of artist Tony Cokes, creating a visual cartography of a body of moving image work that spans twenty years.
Tony Cokess video works are eviscerating critiques and affective art works, bringing together color theory, sound, music, and texts, and quoting a polyphony of voices including Aretha Franklin, Mark Fisher, David Bowie, Public Enemy, and Donald Trump. Combining political and social commentary with cultural theory and a critique of capitalism, Cokess works viscerally confront the social condition, particularly the prejudices and threats suffered by black subjects. This book is the first monograph on his practice, creating a visual cartography of a body of work that spans twenty years.
It features four critical pathways into Cokess decades-long practice, with essays contributed by notable academics, and conversations between Cokes and artist Kerry Tribe. Cokess work deals with mediation and distribution, and the book itself becomes another conduit for the dissemination of theory, critique, and counter-narrative--a process that Cokes so powerfully engages in as an artist.
This book accompanies Cokess solo exhibition, If UR Reading This Its 2 Late: Vol. 1-3, across three international art institutions: Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University; and ARGOS centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels.
Contributors
Dan Byers, Tony Cokes, Christoph Cox, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Sarah McCrory, Sohrab Mohebbi, Kerry Tribe, Niels Van Tomme
