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Culture Capture: Crimes Against Reality

New Red Order

2020 | 00:09:08 | United States / Canada | English | B&W and Color | Stereo | Video

Collection: Single Titles

Tags: History, Indigenous, Post-colonialism, Sculpture

Culture Capture: Crimes Against Reality extends NRO’s Culture Capture series towards examining desires for monumentality and its dissolution, pursuing fantasies of removal by morphing monuments into metastasizing flesh via ritualized photogrammetric capture and virtual manipulation, performing a sort of sympathetic magic to clear space for Indigenous futures.

The piece literalizes the violence of settler-colonial propaganda and features prominent monuments such as the Equestrian Statue of Theodore Roosevelt which stood in front of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City until its removal in 2022, and “End of the Trail”, both created by American sculptor James Earle Fraser. The video mines the archive of Fraser, going beyond simple iconoclasm to probe deeper, investigating desires for indigeneity that motivated the artist, desires which continue to pervade the myths, dreams, and political foundations of the so-called Americas.

Co-directed with Driftnote.

This work is originally a 2-channel video installation. The work may be screened as a single-channel film theatrically, but it is only to be exhibited as a two-channel video. Please contact VDB regarding exhibition installations.

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Premiere

Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
MI
2020

Exhibitions + Festivals

Errata, HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, Germany, 2020 
Feel at Home Here, Artists Space, New York, 2021 
Proof of Stake, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 2021 
Under the Park, Public Art Norway (KORO), Oslo, Norway, 2021 
REDCAT, CalArts, Los Angeles, CA, 2022
ArtHub, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022
Films by New Red Order and other Collaborative Constellations, BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA, 2022
One if by Land, Two if by Sea, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022
The 67th Flaherty Film Seminar, featured artist, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, 2022
ArtHub, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022
Signals: How Video Transformed the World, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, 2023
Redline Contemporary Art Center, Denver, CO, 2023
Thinking Historically in the Present, Sharjah Biennial 15, Sharjah, UAE, 2023
Thousand Suns Cinema, Media City Film Festival, Windsor, ON, CA, 2023
Against Neo-Nationalist Mythmaking, Kunstnernes Hus Kino, Oslo, NO, 2023
off the pedestal, Emerson Contemporary, Boston, MA, 2024
Mercosur Biennial 14, Porte Alegre, Brazil, 2024
Virtual Structures of Sabotage, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA, 2024
Dirty & Disorderly: Contemporary Artists on Disgust, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA, 2024

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