Name: 24 Hours with Tony Cokes
Start: 2025-09-12T06:00:00+03:00
End: 2025-09-13T06:00:00+03:00
Location: Mannerheimintie 22-24, 00100 Helsinki, Finland

𝗔𝗺𝗼𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝘅 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗦 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝟮𝟰 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗸𝗲𝘀, 𝗮 𝟮𝟰-𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 & 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁, 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗸𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝗩𝗹𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘃 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘆 (𝗦𝗮𝘀𝘂 𝗥𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗶), 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱- 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝘂𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘅; 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝘆𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗲-𝗥𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗶 𝗮𝗸𝗮 “𝗔𝗚𝗙”, 𝗜𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗷𝗮, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗣𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗿𝘂𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝟲 𝗮𝗺 𝗼𝗻 𝟭𝟮 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝟲 𝗮𝗺 𝗼𝗻 𝟭𝟯 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿. 𝟮𝟰 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗹𝗹. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 – 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁!
For 24 hours only, the entirety of Tony Cokes' film works spanning nearly four decades will be presented across the interior and exterior of Amos Rex and its surrounding sites. The program transforms the museum’s cinema, passageways, facade, and the surrounding city space of Lasipalatsi Square into a dynamic arena for screenings, performances, and interventions.
Since the late 1980s, Tony Cokes has redefined media by interweaving textual, musical, and visual elements. Through his distinctive process of cutting, assembling, and rearranging fragments of history – archival footage, news broadcasts, political speeches, pop and club culture, theoretical texts, and conversations – Cokes constructs an incisive critique of media, power, and anti-Blackness, as well as consumerism and contemporary political discourse.
The program features early works such as Black Celebration (1988), Fade to Black (1990), and his Evil Series, to more recent works such as HS LST WRDZ (2021), Some Munich Moments 1937–1972 (2022) and Testament E: MF.slow.cancel.2014 (2024), amongst others. These will be screened in the cinema, and on screens within, across, and around the Amos Rex building, and accompanied by sloganeering posters, DIY t-shirt printing workshops, and talks with Tony Cokes, Bhavisha Panchia, Paul O’Neill and others, and are accompanied by newly commissioned performances and DJ sets responding to Cokes’s works.
The event is curated by PUBLICS with Bhavisha Panchia, in partnership with Amos Rex.