EventsThe New Social Environment#910
Tony Cokes
Featuring Cokes and Zoë Hopkins, with Sasha Banks
Monday, October 2, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Artist Tony Cokes joins Rail contributor Zoë Hopkins for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Sasha Banks.
Tony Cokes
Tony Cokes lives and works in Providence, RI, where he serves as Professor in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. Cokes received the 2022-23 Rome Prize and has a solo show currently on view at Dia Bridgehampton. Recent solo exhibitions include Haus der Kunst and Kunstverein, Munich (2022); Greene Naftali, New York (2022); MACRO Contemporary Art Museum, Rome (2021); and CCA Goldsmiths (2019). Significant group shows include the Carnegie International (2022); the Whitney Biennial (2022); and the Berlin Biennal (2018). His work is in collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.
Zoë Hopkins
Zoë Hopkins is a writer and critic based in New York. She received her BA in Art History and African American Studies at Harvard University, and is currently working on her MA in Modern and Contemporary Art at Columbia University. Her writing has been published in the Brooklyn Rail, Artforum, Cultured and Hyperallergic.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.
Dao Strom
Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.
We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨