If UR Reading This It's 2 Late: Vol. 1-3: Tony Cokes
Natasha Hoare (Curator of Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art)
If UR Reading This It’s 2 Late: Vol. 1-3: Tony Cokes
Natasha Hoare (Curator of Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art)
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 Cokes'svideo worksare eviscerating critiques and affective art works, bringing togethercolor 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, Cokes’s works viscerally confront the socialcondition, 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 Cokes’s decades-long practice, with essays contributed by notable academics, and conversations between Cokes and artist Kerry Tribe. Cokes’s 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 Cokes’s solo exhibition, If UR Reading This It’s 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
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