Cannupa Hanska Luger, Future Ancestral Technologies: Muscle, Bone & Sinew Regalia, 2020. Photo courtesy of the artist.
An Indigenous Future ARTIST AND MULTIMEDIA CREATOR
of home and how we imagine it in
CANNUPA HANSKA LUGER COMES
the future.
TO THE MUSEUM IN JULY as the
Luger, a multi-disciplinary artist of
Using social collaboration, Luger produces multi-pronged projects that provoke diverse publics to engage
Hammersley Foundation Visiting Artist.
Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, and
with Indigenous peoples and values
His current project, Future Ancestral
European descent, was raised on the
apart from the lens of colonial social
Technologies, is a multimedia installation
Standing Rock Reservation. He now lives
structuring. Luger lectures and
project that approaches Indigenous
in Glorieta, where his studio includes a
participates in residencies and projects
futurism, blending media, place,
kiln, clay, ceramics and woodworking
around the globe and his work is
storytelling, and documentation of a
tools, a sewing machine, fabric, and
collected internationally. He is a 2020
living practice. It will be installed in the
found afghans he is using to construct
Creative Capital Award recipient, a
Museum lobby in July and will be on
futuristic regalia pieces. These serve to
2019 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters
display for one year.
anchor a theme in the installation and
& Sculptors Grant recipient and the
are both traditional and futuristic in their
recipient of the 2018 Museum of Arts
design and construction.
and Design’s inaugural Burke Prize.
Future Ancestral Technologies’ overall narrative stems from the themes of science fiction, genetic memory,
The project also consists of art
and reclaiming indigeneity. This new
objects, videos, and performance,
installation of an ongoing narrative
imagining a post-apocalyptic time
offers multiple points of entry into an
through an indigenous lens. Some of
undetermined moment in the future,
the work is land-based and site-specific,
ON VIEW
engaging the viewer in an innovative
using traditional crafts and ritual, and
CANNUPA HANSKA LUGER
life-based art installation that dreams
yet re-envisions art practice to create
of survival and solutions. The Museum’s
indigenous culture and stories that thrive
July 2021-June 2022
installation will play on the nature
in the future.
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