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Event Date as Display String:

Monday, February 17, 2020, 12:00pm - 5:00pm

Location:

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Levels 1 and 3, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

URL:

https://carpenter.center/program/tony-cokes-if-ur-reading-this-it-s-2-late-vol-2

Event Description:

Gazette Classification: Art/Design,Exhibitions Organization/Sponsor:
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: ccva@fas.harvard.edu Link:
https://carpenter.center/program/tony-cokes-if-ur-reading-this-it-s-2-late-vol-2
"Tony Cokes: If UR Reading This It's 2 Late: Vol. 2" provides an
opportunity to see a broad range of powerful artworks made by Cokes
since the 1980s, alongside two newly commissioned films. Cokes's video
works are eviscerating critiques and affective art works, bringing
together color theory, sound, music, and texts quoting a polyphony of
voices such as Louis Althusser, Malcolm X, David Bowie, Public Enemy
and Donald Trump. Meeting political and social commentary with
cultural theory and a critique of capitalism, Cokes's films starkly
confront the social conditions, as well as the specific prejudices and
threats encountered by black subjects. Recent works range across
minimal techno, the Bush administration's use of color to engender a
perpetual culture of fear, and music used to torture detainees during
the so-called "war on terror." Two new works will be produced for the
exhibition, one of which is specific to the context of the Carpenter
Center, and another will be co-commissioned by the exhibition's three
organizers. Tony Cokes: If UR Reading This It's 2 Late: Vol. 2 is
co-organized with Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art (Sept. 28,
2019-Jan. 12, 2020) and ARGOS centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels
(April-July 2020). A publication with newly commissioned texts will be
co-published between the organizing institutions and Goldsmiths Press,
London.

UID:

http://uid.trumba.com/event/141987737

Event Start Date as Date Type:

Monday, February 17, 2020 - 12:00 to 17:00

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