EventsThe New Social Environment#1180

Dirty and Disorderly: Contemporary Artists on Disgust

Featuring Nguyễn Duy Mạnh, Anna Ting Möller, Jackson Polys (New Red Order), Riley Yuen, and Christina Yang.

Friday, March 7, 2025 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Artists Nguyễn Duy Mạnh, Anna Ting Möller, Jackson Polys (New Red Order), Riley Yuen join Rail contributor Christina Yang for a conversation. 

Nguyễn Duy Mạnh

A photo of Nguyễn Duy Mạnh on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Nguyễn Duy Mạnh’s artistic practice is a process of self-study and experimentation in visual arts. His work explores the fragility and disintegration of cultural values, reflecting on trauma and its impact on individual spirituality in contemporary society. Through diverse mediums, he investigates personal and collective memory, questioning reality and transformation. He has exhibited at the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum, The Muse Art Space, Ngo Quyen Art Exhibition Center in Hanoi, Galerie BAO in Paris, and The Outpost Art Organization, among others. Nguyễn Duy Mạnh lives and works in Hanoi, Vietnam.

    Anna Ting Möller

    A photo of Anna Ting Möller on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

    Anna Ting Möller is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York and Stockholm. Their work explores kinship, material transformation through sculpture, installation, and performance. Möller holds an MFA from Columbia University, US and a BFA from Konstfack University, SE. Their work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including MASS MoCA, US; Liljevalchs Konsthall, SE; ArkDes, SE; Carl Eldh, SE; Jyväskylä Art Museum, FI; Titanik, FI. They participated in the 45th Tendencies Biennale in Norway and The Immigrant Artist Biennale in New York. The artist's work has been reviewed in publications such Hyperallergic and Brooklyn Rail.

      New Red Order (NRO)

      A photo of New Red Order (NRO) on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

      New Red Order (NRO) is a public secret society with a rotating and expanding cast, facilitated by core contributors Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, and Jackson Polys. Working with an interdisciplinary network of Informants, the NRO co-produces video, performance, and installation works that confront desires for indigeneity and obstacles to Indigenous growth and agency. New Red Order has exhibited work with Art Sonje; Artists Space; Counterpublic; Creative Time; HKW; Kunsthal Charlottenborg; MoMA; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; Redline Contemporary Art Center; Sharjah Biennial; and the Whitney Museum; among other institutions.

        Riley Yuen

        A photo of Riley Yuen on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

        Riley Yuen is a second year MA student at the Williams College and Clark Art Institute’s Graduate Program in the History of Art. She specializes in contemporary art with interests in Southeast Asia and Asian diasporic art. Her conceptual focuses within art history are minoritarian aesthetics and critical theory. She is currently a Judith M. Lenett conservation fellow at the Williamstown + Atlanta Art Conservation Centers (W+AACC) and a graduate curatorial fellow at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA)  where her latest curatorial project focuses on the politics of disgust.

          Christina Yang

          A photo of Christina Yang on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

          Christina Yang is Executive Director of AAMC Foundation as well as an independent curator based in New York and Williamstown. She specializes in spectatorship, politics of the image, experimental genres, and feminist care. She has been a curator at The Kitchen, Queens and Guggenheim Museums, as well at Williams College and UC Berkeley. She teaches in SVA’s Masters Program in Curatorial Practice. She participated in Asia Art Archive in America’s 2024 Leadership Camp led by Simon Wu and Daniel Chew. She received her Ph.D in performance studies from NYU in 2025. 

          We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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