2018 | United States | Experimental

The Savage Philosophy of Endless Acknowledgment

  • English - 28 mins
  • Director | New Red Order
  • Writer | -
  • Producer | -

STATUS: Released

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Developed as a body of work deployed across New Red Order’s unique live ‘TedTalk on Acid’ style event format, this series of videos unpacks efforts to 'decolonize' institutions that are embodied in ritual acts of acknowledging Indigenous presence and claims to territory. Within what is currently called the United States, these acknowledgements are increasingly—if only recently—understood as prerequisite for demonstrating engagement with Indigenous communities. However, without continuous commitment to serve as accomplices to Indigenous people, institutional gestures of acknowledgement risk reconciling 'settler guilt and complicity' and rescuing 'settler futurity.'

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