SURVIVA: Future Ancestral Technologies

An ambitious, world-envisioning work of Indigenous futurism. Since 2015through a polymathic proliferation of forms including sculpture, regalia, film, photography, poetry, painting, and installationacclaimed multimedia artist Cannupa Hanska Luger has been weaving together strands of a new myth. Collectively referred to as Future Ancestral Technologies, this sprawling series of interrelated works seeks to reimagine Indigenous life and culture in a postcolonial world where space exploration has reduced and reconfigured the earth's population. SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide offers readers a multidimensional view beneath, beyond, and between the lines of Luger's ever-expanding artistic universe. In this new ecstatically hybrid work, Luger transforms a 1970s military survival guide through poetic redaction, speculative fiction, and iterative line drawingdeftly surfacing and disrupting the colonial subconscious that haunts the suppressed histories of this vexed source text. An epic and timely meditation on planetary life in the midst of transformation, SURVIVA boldly presents an earth-based ethos for a demilitarized futuredream that foregrounds Indigenous knowledge as critical to humanity's survival.