This March internationally renowned artist, film maker Tony Cokes will visit at PUBLICS when he will examine his research methodologies by showing selected excerpts from his recent films and installation projects.

As Cokes states of his practice: ‘I work in modules and fragments. Often installation forms are part of the trajectory of my work. Sometimes installations 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. I’m also attracted to producing more folds within my working process recently. The idea of re-doubling aspects of my work with text and reading protocols across differing forms and scales (prints, lightboxes, books, audio recordings, performative remixes, installations) has become pleasurable over the last few years. In producing recent works, I am struck by the fact that while the forms and techniques deployed are obviously similar to previous processes, the orientation toward a printed text format, for example, implies a more intimate scale and mode of address than normal for my work, and I find that multiplicity within sameness across media a really exciting space to inhabit. Simultaneously, I’m drawn to more public presentation contexts like large-scale, outdoor LED for my work in future.’

Tony Cokes makes video, installation, print, sound, and other works that reframe appropriated texts to reflect upon capitalism, subjectivity, knowledge, and pleasure. He has shown works internationally at venues including Centre Georges Pompidou, Museum of Modern Art, Whiney Museum, NY, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany, REDCAT, Los Angeles, and La Cinémathèque Française. 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.  He is a Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, Providence,RI. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre George Pompidou, Paris; Kunsthallen, Copenhagen; Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus; and Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, among many others. His work is represented by Greene Naftali Gallery, New York.