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AlienNATION [star spangled]

New Red Order

2018 00:08:53 United StatesEnglish, TaiwaneseColorStereo16:9HD video

Description

A welcome as warning. Frequent collaborators and proxies for New Red Order - Jim Fletcher and Kate Valk co-host a confrontation with the viewer about the passivity of ongoing settler-colonial occupations, and introduce a contrite, yet self-congratulatory stew of televised recordings of public apologies to Indigenous peoples from the heads of state around the globe.  Featuring Donald Trump, Queen Elizabeth, Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd, President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen, Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau and more!

In English and Taiwanese. Part of The Savage Philosophy of Endless Acknowledgment suite. 

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About New Red Order

New Red Order is a public secret society facilitated by core contributors Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, and Jackson Polys. In our current period of existential and environmental catastrophe, desires for Indigenous epistemologies increase and enterprising settlers labor to extract this understanding as if it were a natural resource. New Red Order—emerging out of contradistinction from the Improved Order of Red Men, a secret society that 'plays Indian'—calls attraction toward indigeneity into question, yet promotes this desire, and enjoins potential non-Indigenous accomplices to participate in the co-examination and expansion of Indigenous agency. Working with an interdisciplinary network of informants the NRO co-produces video, performance, and installation works that confront settler colonial tendencies and obstacles to Indigenous growth. They have presented their work at Artists Space, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Lincoln Center, Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, New York Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Toronto Biennial 2019, Walker Art Center, and Whitney Biennial 2019, among others, expanding the public secret society network across numerous institutional platforms. 

See also The Violence of a Civilization Without Secrets, an early work by Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, and Jackson Polys created before the formation of New Red Order.