The weekend-long Tony Cokes: Sound Systems programme opens with the artist’s recent three-channel video installation Could You Visit Me in Dreams? 2018, which will be openly accessible in the Starr Cinema throughout the evening.
Drawing from his book The Vienna Guide, the installation offers a speculative image of Vienna through collaged text appropriated from various sources including songs, nightclub descriptions, published articles, Facebook posts and tourist guides. The work unfolds through Cokes’ signature coloured text animations and is set to music by Scritti Politti, Mount Kimbie, Debit and Kode9 & Burial. Could You Visit Me in Dreams? is a perfect introduction to Cokes's practice of remixing through sound and textual cut-up.
Tate Modern
Film
Tony Cokes: Could You Visit Me in Dreams?
Tony Cokes Could You Visit Me in Dreams? 2018, installation view detail. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nathalie Halgand
Drop in to see a free video installation opening the Tony Cokes retrospective at Tate Modern
Tate Modern
Date & Time
31 May 2019 at 19.00–23.00
Pricing
Free
Price shown includes donation. Concessions available. Under 12s go free (up to four per parent or guardian). Family tickets available (two adults and two children 12–18 years) by telephone or in the gallery.