Tony Cokes, Could you visit me in dreams? and Della’s House

Tony Cokes, Could you visit me in dreams? and Della’s House

Tony Cokes, Could you visit me in dreams?, 2018. Installation view at Galerie Nathalie Halgand, Vienna. Courtesy of the artist and Greene Naftali, New York.

Bar Laika presents
Tony Cokes, Could you visit me in dreams? and Della’s House
Date
March 10, 2019, 7pm
Bar Laika by e-flux
224 Greene Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11238
USA

Join us at Bar Laika for an evening with artist Tony Cokes.

Tony Cokes works in modules and fragments. Often, installation forms are part of the trajectory of his work: sometimes they have been productive contexts from which individual works are later drawn; other times, clusters of existing short works are spatialized and juxtaposed into installations. This presentation will examine selected excerpts from recent installation projects in Los Angeles and Vienna that will likely find their way to become short autonomous pieces, or components in other installations. 

For the recent exhibition/installation project Could you visit me in dreams? (2018), Cokes constructed an alternative guide to Vienna mostly from internet sources—encompassing historical facts, club descriptions, Freud and Kafka anecdotes, and recent news to offer a diverse, speculative/future view of the city as a site of encounter.

His most recent installation Della’s House (2019) is composed of two sets of paired LED panels and cube monitors, and features two sections—“The Will & The Way” and “The Queen is Dead…”—that play with the legibility of architectural space and historic black creative figures. The initial context was the private residence of mid-century Los Angeles architect Paul Revere Williams. Cokes’ response to Williams’ work draws from the architect’s own words and sets them to music by Radiohead remixed by several artists. For “The Queen is Dead…,” Cokes redeploys parts from an ensemble of articles exploring the political resonances and legacies of Aretha Franklin, with Franklin’s own music and a techno rework by Floorplan/Robert Hood as accompaniment. 

Tony Cokes makes video, installation, print, sound, and other works that reframe appropriated texts to reflect on capitalism, subjectivity, knowledge, and pleasure. He has shown works internationally at venues including Centre Georges Pompidou and La Cinémathèque Française, Paris; Museum of Modern Art and Whiney Museum, New York; ZKM, Karlsruhe; and REDCAT, Los Angeles. Cokes has screened works in festivals including the Berlin Biennale X; Rotterdam International Film Festival; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid; and the Oberhausen Short Film Festival.  His work is represented by Greene Naftali Gallery, New York.

For more information, contact laika@e-flux.com.

Category
Installation, Capitalism
Subject
Subjectivity

Tony Cokes lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island, where he serves as Professor in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. A solo show of his work is currently on view at the Dia Bridgehampton, The Dan Flavin Art Institute, through May 2024. In 2022, he was the subject of a major survey jointly organized by the Haus der Kunst and Kunstverein in Munich. Other recent solo exhibitions include De Balie, Amsterdam (2022); Greene Naftali, New York (2022, 2018); Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester (2021); MACRO Contemporary Art Museum, Rome (2021); CIRCA, London (2021); Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona (2020); ARGOS centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels (2020); Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2020); BAK – basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands (2020); Luma Westbau, Zurich (2019); Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London (2019); The Shed, New York (2019); Kunsthall Bergen, Norway (2018); and REDCAT, Los Angeles (2012).His work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Centre Pompidou, Paris; FRAC Lorraine, Metz; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Kunsthallen, Copenhagen; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.

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