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ARIELLA AZOULAY
Civil Alliance, Palestine 1947-1948
A film by Ariella Azoulay
Jews and Palestinians gather around a map of
Mandatory Palestine to report a civil race against the
clock taking place in Palestine until the founding of
the State of Israel in May 1948. Intense civil activity
was happening throughout the country, mainly in
urgent encounters, some short and spontaneous,
others planned and carefully laid out in detail
- in which participants raised demands, sought
compromises, set rules, formulated agreements,
made promises, asked for forgiveness, made efforts
to reconcile and compensate - and did everything
possible not to let violence take over their lives.
They did their utmost to halt the violence that
national and military forces were intent on igniting
and negotiated with each other in order to create
mutual civil alliances. This film is based upon civil/
historical/visual research.
ANTHONY COKES
http://www.redcat.org/exhibition/tony-cokes
Retro (Pop, Terror, Critique), Tony Cokes’ first
solo exhibition in Los Angeles, brings together
over 45 videos and text animations from the past
15 years. Taking the form of a new multichannel
installation conceived for REDCAT by the artist,
the exhibition offers a survey of Cokes’ recent
output, while subjecting his ow n ar t i st i c
practice to the looping processes of use and
reuse. The repurposing of existing works to this
end f u r t h ers the repetition of images, sounds
a n d t e x t s that has been characteristic of the
artist’s work since his acclaimed Black Celebration
(1988), which pairs newsreel footage of uprisings
in urban black neighborhoods in the 1960s with
textual commentary and popular music references
from the 1980s.
“Pop Manifestos” (1997–present), “The Evil
Series” (2001–present) and “Art Critique Series”
(2008–present) are brought together for the
first time in a series of eight programs that rotate
each week of the installation’s eight-week run at
REDCAT. Cokes’ extensive project maps a set of
ongoing and concurrent interests that treat the
discourses of cultural studies, media theory and art
criticism as readymade systems of reference.
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