The first monograph on the work of artist Tony Cokes, creating a visual cartography of a body of moving image work that spans twenty years.

Tony Cokes’s video works are eviscerating critiques and affective art works, bringing together color theory, sound, music, and texts, and quoting a polyphony of voices including Aretha Franklin, Mark Fisher, David Bowie, Public Enemy, and Donald Trump. Combining political and social commentary with cultural theory and a critique of capitalism, Cokes’s works viscerally confront the social condition, particularly the prejudices and threats suffered by black subjects. This book is the first monograph on his practice, creating a visual cartography of a body of work that spans twenty years.

It features four critical pathways into Cokes’s decades-long practice, with essays contributed by notable academics, and conversations between Cokes and artist Kerry Tribe. Cokes’s work deals with mediation and distribution, and the book itself becomes another conduit for the dissemination of theory, critique, and counter-narrative—a process that Cokes so powerfully engages in as an artist.

This book accompanies Cokes’s solo exhibition, If UR Reading This It’s 2 Late: Vol. 1–3, across three international art institutions: Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University; and ARGOS centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels.

关于艺术家 Tony Cokes 作品的第一本专著，为其横跨20年的移动影像作品创建了一个视觉地图学。

Tony Cokes 的视频作品是令人厌恶的批评和情感艺术作品，汇集了色彩理论、声音、音乐和文本，并引用了包括 Aretha Franklin, Mark Fisher, David Bowie, Public Enemy, 和Donald Trump在内的复调声音。Cokes 的作品将政治和社会评论与文化理论和对资本主义的批判相结合，直面社会状况，特别是黑人主体所遭受的偏见和威胁。本书是关于他的实践的第一本专著，为他跨越20年的作品创造了一个视觉地图。

本书有四条进入 Cokes 数十年实践的关键途径，由知名学者提供文章，以及Cokes和艺术家Kerry Tribe之间的对话。Cokes 的作品涉及调解和传播，这本书本身成为传播理论、批评和反叙事的另一个渠道—Cokes 作为一个艺术家如此有力地参与的过程。

这本书伴随着 Cokes 的个展 “如果UR读到这个，已经晚了：第1-3卷”，在三个国际艺术机构展出。Goldsmiths当代艺术中心，伦敦；Carpenter视觉艺术中心，哈佛大学；以及ARGOS视听艺术中心，布鲁塞尔。