Jackson Polys

Following #GivingTuesday — the global day of giving when everyday people make small-scale donations to organizations they love in their communities — Forge Project is excited to celebrate the second year of #GiveItBackWednesday. #GiveItBackWednesday leans into the emancipatory potential of the redistribution of wealth. This year, we are inviting our community to show your support for the New Red Order’s latest project, “Give It Back.” NRO is a “public secret society laying the foundation for Indigenous futures” led by Jackson Polys (Tlingit, New York) @jacksonpolys , Adam Khalil (Ojibway, Copenhagen) @selledesong , and Zack Khalil (Ojibway, New York) @zackkhalil . “Give It Back” is a guide for those looking to return land to Native peoples, developed with Triple Canopy @triple_canopy , which will publish the book in 2027. Drawing on years of propagandizing for and facilitating land transfers—through art as well as research, advocacy, and relationship-building—NRO’s book will put the how-to manual in service of Native futures. “Give It Back” will be accompanied by an extensive online resource. As our friends of NRO would say themselves, “it just feels so good to give it back.” Click the #LinkInBio to #GiveItBack directly to NRO today. Credits: 1 - Cut out from NRO, “Forge Reciprocal Relations” film still, 2024 2 - NRO, “Crimes Against Reality” film still, 2025 4 - NRO, “The World’s Unfair,” real estate sign, Creative Time / Cesarin Mateo, 2023

Today come hear Lori and I in conversation with @jacksonpolys of #newredorder at @hibernianhall 6pm

Think concert. Think film fest. Think history lesson gone off the rails. Now think all of that in one event. New Red Order Presents: The Urge 2 Merge is a boundary-breaking mashup of performance, music, film, and cultural exchange. Artists, musicians, academics, and re-enactors collide for one night only in Faneuil Hall. Drop by and raise a glass, grab a slice, and experience art like never before. 🗓️Saturday, Oct 4 | 6PM-12AM 📍4 South Market Street, Boston Free and open to all. Link in bio.

Today’s lecture is one you won't want to miss! Join us to hear from New Red Order, a public secret society of artists and collaborators who use humor, media, and performance to confront colonialism and interrogate cultural appropriation. Through the lens of their “Savage Philosophy,” the class will explore how NRO invites participation in the project of Indigenous futurity, disrupting dominant narratives and reclaiming representation. 🕖 7–8:45pm EST | 6–7:45pm CST | 4–5:45pm PST

𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘴 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘰𝘯 (𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯)⁣ by New Red Order [2025] ⁣ ⁣ Mixed Media sculpture, combining 3D modelled and printed mimicry, the readymade, and the handmade.⁣ ⁣ “The larger-than-life sculpture Material Monument to Thomas Morton, humorously highlights the controversial colonial figure and Puritan defector Thomas Morton: leader of the Merrymount Colony, known for staging multi-day celebrations around an 80-foot maypole, and pursuing a perhaps excessive attraction to indigeneity. ⁣ ⁣ Typical symbols found in pop culture, monuments and mascots from across Boston merge with the Tlingit sculptural tradition of “shame poles”—a type of totem pole erected to signal failure and debt —to forge, through a satirical twist, a ‘shameless pole’—which garishly embraces revelry, refusal, and resistance. The artwork prompts not just a critique of the past, but a call to action to recuperate alternative settler dynamics in solidarity and alignment with Indigenous people.”⁣ ⁣ Commissioned for the inaugural Boston Public Art Triennial ⁣@thetriennial ⁣ Sculpture by ⁣ New Red Order⁣ ( @selledesong @zackkhalil @jacksonpolys ) ⁣ Fabrication by ⁣ The Factory NYC⁣ ( @the_factory_nyc ) ⁣ 3D Modeling by⁣ Jackson Polys⁣ ( @jacksonpolys ) Harry Kleeman⁣ ( @harry_kleeman ) Coby Kennedy⁣ ( @cobykennedy ) ⁣ Concept Art by⁣ Dylan Clancy ⁣ Kindall Almond⁣ (@kindall.almond ) ⁣ Graphic Design by⁣ Virgil B/G Taylor⁣ ( @vbgt ) ⁣ Couture Patches by⁣ Deesigns New York⁣ ( @deesigns_newyork ) Deepti Deleo⁣ ( @deepti_deleo ) New York Embroidery Services⁣ ⁣ Project Managers⁣ Jane Long, BRM Production Management⁣ ( @brmproductionmanagement ) Leo Crowley, Boston Public Art Triennial⁣ ( @leoxcrowley ) ⁣ Curators⁣ Pedro Alonzo⁣ ( @trucatriche ) Tess Lukey⁣ ( @tessie9244 ) ⁣ Commissioned by ⁣ Boston Public Art Triennial⁣ ( @thetriennial ) ⁣ New Red Order, Material Monument to Thomas Morton (Playing Indian), Installation View at Marketplace Center, Boston Public Art Triennial, May 22 - October 31, 2025. Photo: Caitlin Cunningham.⁣ ( @caitlincunningham ) ⁣ ⁣ ⁣

VDB is thrilled to welcome New Red Order to the collection! @selledesong @zackkhalil @jacksonpolys New Red Order (NRO) is a public secret society facilitated by core contributors Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, and Jackson Polys, three VDB artists known for their earlier collaboration on The Violence of a Civilization Without Secrets (2017) before forming NRO. New works from NRO include their Culture Capture series of interventions around museums and monuments and their Savage Philosophy of Endless Acknowledgment Suite (2018-2020) which takes to task institutional gestures of engagement with indigeneity. NRO's works comprise various nuanced satirical explorations of decolonizing projects. VDB has acquired 13 new works available for screenings and educational institutions. Simultaneously, VDB is excited to have acquired works from NRO’s core contributors who engage in a variety of collaborative duos and trios extending beyond the public secret society. Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil's INAATE/SE/ [it shines a certain way. to a certain place/it flies. falls./] (2016), kaleidoscopically reimagines an Anishinaabe story, the "Seven Fires Prophecy," which both predates and predicts first contact with Europeans. Adam Khalil brings in various experimental collaborators — Maria Meinild, Adam Piron, Bayley Sweitzer, and Anton Vidokle — to explore the spectacle of Seminole alligator wrestling, mythologize colonial vampirism, speculate on resurrection, and imagine lifeforms tinged by blue screen hues. "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." — NRO NRO will be showcased in the upcoming European Media Art Festival (EMAF) in Osnabrück, Germany as the selected artist for Artists in Focus, a section dedicated to practices at the intersection of art and cinema. The Violence of a Civilization Without Secrets (2017) will screen in VDB's upcoming Roundabout program @filmcenter 4/24 at 6pm. More soon!

💥 Bold, provocative, and unafraid to ask the hard questions—these two Creative Time projects earned their place in @artnews 100 Best Artworks of the 21st Century: 🔹”The World’s UnFair” (2023) by New Red Order | A sharp critique of settler colonialism and call to join the Land Back movement, facilitated by core contributors @JacksonPolys , Adam Khalil, and @ZackKhalil 🔹”A Subtlety” (2014) by Kara Walker (@kara_walker_official ) | A sugar-coated reckoning with labor, race, and exploitation, Walker’s monumental sphinx stood as a powerful tribute in a soon-to-be-demolished section of the Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn 🔹 Creative Time alumni Paul Chan (@studiopaulchan ), @JillMagid , Simone Leigh (@simoneyvetteleigh ), and others have also been recognized for their lasting impact on contemporary art From past to present, these works continue to challenge, provoke, and push the boundaries of public art. 🖤✨ Tap the link in our bio to read the full article. #CreativeTime #PublicArt #PublicArtNYC #KaraWalker #NewRedOrder #TheWorldsUnfair #LandBack

After an absence, back, at rivers edge. Thank you.

If you’re able tomorrow Tuesday at 4pm at Gibney on Chambers St, would love to see you there. Curated by Tom Sellar @criticaldisposition #americanrealness #american realnessfestival #americanrealness2019 #fnd #fnd2019 #indigenati #informants Link in Bio to RSVP

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Wednesday night June 13th 7pm and forever gIve it up, don’t give it up! @g_essa_p @ashleyridingbicycle @selledesong @zackkhalil @kitekitekitekitekite @talikeren123 @jacksonpolys etcetcetc

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