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An Endless Meeting: Featuring New Red Order
New Red Order's "Give it Back: Crimes Against Realty (Office Edition)" is a real estate office and recruitment station encouraging the rematriation of land to Indigenous people.
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On the screen, Jim Fletcher, a former Native American impersonator, gives you the MTV Cribs tour of an apartment he has supposedly given back to Indigenous people.
You walk into what looks like a real estate office and recruitment station, using the look of property sales to advertise one product: land returned to Indigenous people. The 35-minute film at its centre swerves between branded content and documentary. Next to the joke apartment it profiles real returns: the City of Eureka to the Wiyot Tribe, Oakland to the Sogorea Te' Land Trust, Christine Sleeter's inheritance to the Ute Indian Tribe. It's the only property office in Philadelphia whose closing pitch is to give the place away.
Sit through the whole film, since that's where the real cases are. Entry is free, on Vox Populi's third floor at 319 North 11th Street, alongside Caroline Woolard and Kameelah Janan Rasheed. Open Thursdays 4 to 6pm and Friday to Sunday 12 to 6pm, until 15 November.
Look for
The land-back sales office
Look for property-style listings and promotional material, the trappings of a real estate pitch, all advertising land going back to Indigenous people.
Jim Fletcher's apartment tour
In the film, the reformed impersonator shows off his apartment MTV Cribs style, the flat he has supposedly given back.
The real returns
The same film cuts to actual cases, from the City of Eureka returning land to the Wiyot Tribe to an inheritance handed to the Ute Indian Tribe.
Good for
- Cheap Culture
- Locals Who've Seen It All
Skip if
You want objects to look at: the heart of this is a 35-minute film inside a mock sales office.
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- An Endless Meeting: Featuring New Red OrderCourtesy of Vox Populi
- You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary TapestryPhoto credit: Constance Mensh.
- Kati Gegenheimer: We've Only Just BegunCourtesy of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
- Vox PopuliVox Populi
- The Fabric Workshop and MuseumJohn Phelan, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine ArtsDifference engine, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- African American Museum in Philadelphiaajay_suresh via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
- National Constitution CenterBeyond My Ken, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0