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Tony Cokes

RRK: Reading Rosalind Krauss

Vidéo | dv | couleur | 4:55 | USA | 2012

RRK (Reading Rosalind Krauss) is an animated transcript of the lyrics from The Size Queens` song of the same title. This witty chunk of rock-art was part of the official soundtrack for the first "Our Literal Speed: The Performative Discourse" event held at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany in March 2008. The second iteration of the event held in Chicago in May 2009 featured a new soundtrack by The Size Queens. The third and final chapter of OLS has been delayed. Meanwhile, feel free to sing along with this exciting track until the next episode unfolds in Los Angeles, or wherever.

Tony Cokes makes video and installation works that reframe appropriated texts to reflect upon capitalism, subjectivity, knowledge, and pleasure. Sound always functions as a crucial, intertextual element, complicating minimal visuals. Cokes` works have been exhibited internationally at venues including Centre Georges Pompidou, Whitney Museum, Museum of Modern Art, SF MOMA, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany, and La Cinémathèque Française. He has received fellowships from The Guggenheim Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Creative Capital, and Getty Research Institute. Cokes is a Professor in Modern Culture and Media at Brown University.