Event overview
This September 2019, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art will host the first UK solo exhibition of US-based artist Tony Cokes.
The exhibition provides an opportunity to see a broad range of powerful artworks made by Cokes since the 1980s, alongside two newly commissioned films. Cokes’ video works are eviscerating critiques and affective art works, bringing together colour 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’ films viscerally confront the social condition, as well as the specific prejudices and threats suffered by black subjects. Recent works range across minimal techno, the Bush administration’s use of colour 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 Goldsmiths CCA and takes as its subject the musicality of Kodwo Eshun’s Mark Fisher Memorial Lecture, which took place at Goldsmiths University in 2018. Mark Fisher was a well-loved writer and academic based at Goldsmiths, whose work explored the pervasive logic of capitalism as inflected through culture, including music, literature, film, television and visual art.
Co-organized by Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University (January 30 – April 12 2020) and ARGOS centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels (April – July 2020).
Dates & times
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28 Sep 2019 |
6:00pm - 9:00pm Opening |
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29 Sep 2019 | 11:00am - 6:00pm | |
2 Oct 2019 | 11:00am - 6:00pm | |
3 Oct 2019 | 11:00am - 9:00pm | |
4 Oct 2019 | 11:00am - 6:00pm | |
5 Oct 2019 | 11:00am - 6:00pm | |
6 Oct 2019 | 11:00am - 6:00pm | |
9 Oct 2019 | 11:00am - 6:00pm | |
10 Oct 2019 | 11:00am - 9:00pm | |
11 Oct 2019 | 10:00am - 6:00pm | |
12 Oct 2019 | 10:00am - 6:00pm | |
13 Oct 2019 | 10:00am - 6:00pm | |
16 Oct 2019 | 11:00am - 6:00pm | |
17 Oct 2019 | 11:00am - 9:00pm | |
18 Oct 2019 | 11:00am - 6:00pm | |
20 Oct 2019 | 11:00am - 6:00pm | |
23 Oct 2019 | 11:00am - 6:00pm | |
24 Oct 2019 | 11:00am - 9:00pm | |
25 Oct 2019 | 11:00am - 6:00pm | |
26 Oct 2019 | 11:00am - 6:00pm | |
27 Oct 2019 | 11:00am - 6:00pm | |
30 Oct 2019 | 11:00am - 6:00pm | |
31 Oct 2019 | 11:00am - 9:00pm | |
1 Nov 2019 | 11:00am - 6:00pm | |
2 Nov 2019 | 11:00am - 6:00pm | |
3 Nov 2019 | 11:00am - 6:00pm | |
6 Nov 2019 | 11:00am - 6:00pm | |
7 Nov 2019 | 11:00am - 9:00pm | |
8 Nov 2019 | 11:00am - 6:00pm | |
9 Nov 2019 | 11:00am - 6:00pm | |
10 Nov 2019 | 11:00am - 6:00pm |
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