Tony Cokes

Evil, 16: Torture.Musik

Maker

Tony Cokes (American, b. 1956)

Title

Evil, 16: Torture.Musik

Year

2011

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Dimensions

16 min (16 min)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Museum purchase: gift of Joseph A. Chazan, MD

Object Number

2015.63.1

Type

Publications

Exhibition History

The Phantom of Liberty
Contemporary Works in the RISD Museum Collection
May 04, 2018 – Dec 30, 2018

Label copy

In Evil, 16: Torture.Musik I animated excerpts from “Disco Inferno,” a 2005 article in The Nation by Moustafa Bayoumi. I found this article to be a key and cogent text in a then-developing body of reportage and scholarship devoted to the military use of music and sound as a weapon, a form of psychological manipulation, or torture. [This work’s] soundtrack features a playlist of songs or artists documented as being used in U.S. psy-ops and torture programs. -Tony Cokes

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Tony Cokes (American, b. 1956)
Evil, 16: Torture.Musik, 2011
Video: color, sound
16 min (16 min)
Museum purchase: gift of Joseph A. Chazan, MD 2015.63.1

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