Tony Cokes: Notes on Evil (and Others)
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
162 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, March 31st, at 6PM
In his incisively witty videos and installations, Tony Cokes juxtaposes familiar archival footage, Google searches, and Hollywood imagery with text and popular music to critique the media’s often reductive representations of race and class. This evening’s screening surveys Cokes’ career and includes Black Celebration (1988), selections from the Pop Manifesto project (2000-04) and his on-going Evil series (2004- ), including the US premiere of Evil.20.b.om.h (2011). The Pop Manifestos connect the history of pop with a larger, nefarious matrix of capitalist production. The Evil videos continue the biting aims of the Pop Manifestos in a more fervently politicized manner, tackling post 9/11 political flash points—Abu Ghraib, the Patriot Act, and various speeches of the Bush Administration—to explore the mediated rhetoric surrounding the US’s ongoing “war on terror.”
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