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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 metastasising flesh via ritualised photogrammetric capture and virtual manipulation, performing a sort of sympathetic magic to clear space for Indigenous futures. The piece literalises 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.

• Sektion Section: Artist in Focus. New Red Order and Company
• Programm Programme: New Red Order and Co. 6