New Red Order
New Red Order
Never Settle, 2018-ongoing, digital video, 49:32
Recruitment Station, 2020-21, with Gaile Pranckunaite, Inpatient Press, and Emmett de Muzio, nylon banners, polyester table cloth, foam board, video monitors, cut white vinyl over red translucent window covering
Progenerator, 2020-21, with Virgil B/G Taylor, wall mural, prints, video monitors, video loop, found objects (porcelain plate, nylon ribbon, brass medal, painting in wooden frame)
Courtesy the artists.
New Red Order (NRO) is a public secret society of rotating membership, including core contributors Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, and Jackson Polys, that collaborates with self-described “informants” to create video and performance works that question and re-channel the desire for Indigeneity. NRO seeks to speculate on that desire, one that undergirds American society through manifestations of “playing Indian” and commodified stereotypes, in order to create a site of acknowledgment that can promote solidarity and shift obstructions to Indigenous growth. This installation is centered on an in-gallery recruitment station, through which NRO seeks to enlist candidates to promote Indigenous futures and collect on those colonial debts. The ongoing video program Never Settle is a viral recruitment campaign ad that explicates NRO’s primary tactics and principals, charting the path for recruits to become true accomplices in reconfiguring colonial structures. Paraphernalia from the still-extant Improved Order of the Red Men, an organization founded for white members to “play Indian,” fills the wall installation Progenerator, a portmanteau of “progenitor” and “generator,” which provides a background on the NRO’s expanding society. Windmills and beavers spin across the gallery windows, a reflection of NRO’s directive to its informants to “commit crimes against reality.”
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DESCRIPTION
A selection of views of the New Red Order installation framing a viewing alcove in the gallery’s main corridor. In the viewing alcove a turquoise meandering line is painted on the back wall of the gallery over white, yellow, and red triangular sections as part of the New Red Order’s wall installation titled Progenerator. The New Red Order Recruitment Station installation is visible on the right side of the image, including the table, video monitors, banners, and transparency and vinyl covered windows. Progenerator, features two painted walls, meeting at a ninety degree angle, with a continuous design painted across them both. The left wall is approximately eight feet high and has a gap between the top and the ceiling, while the right wall reaches the ceiling of approximately twelve feet high. The design painted on the wall consists of four triangular quadrants in yellow, red, dark brown, and white. The quadrants meet at a center which is located slightly to the right of the wall joint. A turquoise river-like line meanders across the walls, moving from the top left of the left wall, across both walls moving up and down on the surface, before terminating in the bottom right corner behind two white pipes. Text, prints, video monitors, and other paraphernalia are hung, studio style, on the two walls. These include images of white Americans dressed up as Native Americans, historic artifacts related to the Improved Order of the Red Men, and Manifestos and Histories of the New Red Order.
ARTIST BIO
New Red Order (NRO) is a public secret society with a rotating and expanding cast, facilitated by core contributors Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, and Jackson Polys. Working with an interdisciplinary network of Informants, the NRO co-produces video, performance, and installation works that confront desires for Indigeneity and obstacles to Indigenous growth and agency. New Red Order has exhibited work at the Whitney Biennial 2019; Toronto Biennial 2019; Artists Space; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; among other institutions.
ABOUT THIS PAGE
This webpage provides both images and description to render a virtual experience of each artist’s work. Below is an image gallery that includes installation shots, video, and details of New Red Order’s installation. In-depth written descriptions that provide visual, auditory, contextual, and other sensory information are available below the image gallery.
Exhibition Photography © EFA Project Space/Yann Chashanovski