Image

Tony Cokes

Evil, 16: Torture.Musik, 2011

Description

Maker

Title

Evil, 16: Torture.Musik

Year

2011

Medium

Video: color, sound

Dimensions

16 min

Type

Credit

Museum purchase: gift of Joseph A. Chazan, MD

Object Number

2015.63.1

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Phantom of Liberty

May 4 - December 30, 2018

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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