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Cannupa Hanska Luger’s multidisciplinary practice blends bold visual storytelling with an Indigenous worldview, reframing our understanding of collective humanity. Born on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota and an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold, the New Mexico–based artist connects materials including clay, textiles, steel and digital media to ancestral knowledge and contemporary material culture.
G.H.O.S.T. Ride expands Luger’s Future Ancestral Technologies (FAT) series, which uses speculative fiction to envision sustainable, land-based futures. The series imagines Indigenous communities utilizing innovative technologies to live in attunement with land and water, challenging colonial paradigms of extraction and exploitation.
The Desert Biennial produces desert X, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization founded in California, conceived to produce recurring international contemporary art exhibitions that activate desert locations through site-specific installations by acclaimed international artists. Its guiding purposes and principles include presenting public exhibitions of art that respond meaningfully to the conditions of desert locations, the environment and Indigenous communities; promoting cultural exchange and education programs that foster dialogue and understanding among cultures and communities about shared artistic, historical, and societal issues; and providing an accessible platform for artists from around the world to address ecological, cultural, spiritual, and other existential themes.
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