Tony Cokes works with appropriated text from various sources, including popular music, mass media, and historical and theoretical writing, and remixes it into video, signs, lightboxes, and billboards. Composed of vibrant colors and often set to music, Cokes’s work subverts the language that shapes contemporary life and culture to draw out new meanings and sensations. For his first public outdoor presentation in Chicago, Cokes presents a two-part installation on the Art Institute’s Bluhm…