New Red Order “Feel at Home Here”

Artists Space

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Artists Space presents an exhibition by New Red Order (NRO), a public secret society of rotating membership, including core contributors Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, and Jackson Polys. Collaborating with informants to create exhibitions, videos, and performances, NRO questions and re-channels subjective and material relationships to indigeneity. Orienting their work through the paradoxical conditions of Indigenous experience, they explores the contradictions and missteps that embody, in their own words, “the desire for indigeneity in the myths, dreams, and political foundations of the so-called Americas.”

Through modes of entertainment and corporate address, museological display, re-appropriation, and a multiplicity of swerving artistic strategies, they collectively advance understandings of how identity is conveyed and configured within contemporary art practices in order to create a site of acknowledgment that can promote solidarity and shift obstructions to Indigenous growth. For their exhibition at Artists Space, their most comprehensive to date, NRO will further explore the desire for indigeneity via a wide multiplicity of communicative and display strategies spanning advertising and marketing, branding, recruitment and belonging, and other means to “promote Indigenous futures.”

This ambitious exhibition is the culmination of a multi-year collaboration between New Red Order and Artists Space that began with our 2017 group show Unholding.

Zack and Adam Khalil are both Ojibway, from northern Michigan, and Jackson Polys, who is Tlingit, is from Alaska. NRO’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Audain Gallery at Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada (2021) and MOCAD Detroit, MI (2020), Obsidian Coast, Bradford-on-Avon, UK (2020), and the Toronto Biennial of Art, Toronto, Canada (2019). Group exhibitions include Speculations on the Infrared, EFA Project Space Program, NY (2021) and Unholding, Artists Space, NY (2017). Screenings and Performances include Indigenous Lens: Our Reality, Walker Art Center, MN (2020), Informants Get Paid!, Artists Space, NY (2020), Culture Capture: Terminal Addition, Light Work, NY (2019), Culture Capture: Terminal Addition, 57th New York Film Festival, NY (2019), The Savage Philosophy of Endless Acknowledgement, Whitney Museum, NY (2018) and THE INFORMANTS, Artists Space, NY (2017).