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Unwind after work and spend your Thursday evening at El Museo del Barrio with an intimate gallery conversation featuring artists and thinkers who share their personal perspectives on works on view in Coco Fusco: Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island, and Jangueando: Recent Acquisitions, 2021–2025. These informal talks invite you to slow down, look closely, and connect more deeply with the artwork in an informal setting.
The evening’s gallery talk will be led by Jackson Polys, a multidisciplinary artist from Tlingit territory and a core contributor to the New Red Order public secret society. Drawing from his practice that explores questions of settler colonialism, power and agency through collaborative video and installation work, Polys will share his perspectives on selected works from Coco Fusco: Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island.
Please note: El Museo will stay open late every Thursday in February, until 8:00 PM. Come early, enjoy the exhibitions at your own pace, and then join us for the gallery conversation from 6:30–7:30 PM. This program is designed as an interactive, guided experience in the galleries and has limited capacity. Advance registration is recommended. Please register here. >
Jackson Polys is a multi-disciplinary artist belonging to Tlingit territory, living and working between what are currently called Alaska and New York. He is a core contributor to the New Red Order (NRO), a public secret society who, with an interdisciplinary network of Informants, co-produce video, performance, and installation works that confront desires for indigeneity, settler colonial tendencies and obstacles to Indigenous growth and agency. Their works have have appeared with Artists Space, Boston Public Art Triennial, Counterpublic, Creative Time, MoMA, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, New York Film Festival, Sharjah Biennial, Sundance Film Festival, Toronto Biennial of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among other institutions.