March 16 - April 22, 2006
Tony Cokes
Tony Cokes, Pop Manifestos, 2003/04
Featuring a variety of aggressive text animation and minimalist graphic techniques, Pop Manifestos examine the myths and ideologies of popular music with subtlety, dry humour and special attention to pop culture's modes of consumer address. Blurring the boundaries between critical analysis, amateur historiography and common advertising tropes, the Pop Manifestos activate all three discourses simultaneously and each in turn. Any assessment of their operation depends heavily on context, the viewer's prior knowledge of, and interest in, rock music. Rereading and appropriation are thus not merely themes in Cokes’ work, but explicitly evoked elements of their reception by viewers. The effect is intentionally disquieting.
Tony Cokes is a post-conceptualist whose practice foregrounds social critique. His video, installation, sound, and public art works recontextualize appropriated materials to reflect upon and contest our production as subjects under capitalism. Cokes' video and multimedia installation works (which sometimes embrace collaborative working methodologies) have appeared in group exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. He currently teaches in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
Gallery Walking Tour
Saturday, April 15, 1pm to 5pm
Meet at the Images Office, 401 Richmond Street, Suite 448
Free!
Guided walking tour of the installation work and new media projects exhibited in this year’s Off Screen Images. Tour Stops: A Space Gallery; Edward Day Gallery; Gallery 44; Gallery TPW; InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre; Mercer Union; Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA); Paul Petro Contemporary Art; Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art; Trinity Square Video; Vtape; Women’s Art Resource Centre (WARC); Wynick/Tuck Gallery; and YYZ Artists’ Outlet.
Tony Cokes and Steve Reinke
Monday, April 17, 3:00 to 5:00 PM
$PWYC
Paired Local and International artists meet at the Gladstone Hotel’s Art Bar to have lively one-on-one conversations about their personal, political and artistic motivations behind the making of their cutting edge works.
EXHIBITION BROCHURE
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