New Red Order (NRO)

New
Red Order (NRO) is a public secret society facilitated by core contributors
Jackson Polys, Adam Khalil, and Zack Khalil. Polys is a multi-disciplinary
artist who examines negotiations toward the limits and viability of desires for
Indigenous growth. He holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University and was
the recipient of a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Mentor Artist
Fellowship. Adam Khalil is a filmmaker and artist whose practice attempts to
subvert traditional forms of image making through humor, relation, and
transgression. He received his B.A. from Bard College and is co-founder of
COUSINS Collective. Zack Khalil is a filmmaker and artist whose work
explores an Indigenous worldview and undermines traditional forms of historical
authority through the excavation of alternative histories and the use of
innovative documentary forms. He received his B.A. at Bard College in the Film
and Electronic Arts Department, and is a UnionDocs Collaborative Fellow and
Gates Millennium Scholar. Their work has appeared at Artists Space, Haus
der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, 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 Arts Center, and Whitney
Biennial 2019, among other institutions.

New Red Order (NRO) works with
networks of informants and accomplices to create grounds for Indigenous
futures. NRO emerges in contradistinction to an older, extant secret society
dubbed “The Improved Order of the Red Men,” an American organization, revived
in 1934 as a whites-only fraternity, whose redface rituals and regalia are
inspired by the country’s most famous, foundational act of Indigenous
appropriation: the donning of Mohawk disguises by the Sons of Liberty during
the Boston Tea Party. If the foundation of settler society rests both on
desires for indigeneity and the violent displacement of Indigenous land and
life, NRO asks how those desires could be channeled toward productive and
sustainable ends