New Red Order: Crimes Against Reality Video Exhibition

LOCATION: RedLine - 2350 Arapahoe St

CATEGORY: Art Events

PAST DATE AND TIME:

• Sat, Jul 1, 2023 - Sun, Aug 27, 2023  

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Curated by Jenna Maurice & Adán De La Garza.
Part of Denver’s Month of Video and our "Roots Radical" Exhibition Program.

"New Red Order: Crimes Against Reality" examines the contradictions inherent in a society built on both the longing for indigeneity and the violent erasure of Indigenous peoples, lands, and ways of life. NRO provocatively questions how these desires can be channeled into something productive, sustainable, and transformative.

“Our aim is to transcend the guilt and shame, not to remove and thus get over it, but to imagine something through and beyond that can address and promote Indigenous futures." — New Red Order

New Red Order is a public secret society facilitated by core contributors Adam Khalil (Ojibway), Zack Khalil (Ojibway), and Jackson Polys (Tlingit). 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.

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