Art Exhibit — Cannupa Hanska Luger: Speechless

“Cannupa Hanska Luger: Speechless” explores and amplifies the problematic colonial history and the concept of cargo cults from an Indigenous perspective. Cargo cults developed as a result of Western military campaigns that sent crated, often airdropped, supplies to foreign lands inhabited by Indigenous peoples.

This exhibition features several momentual works by the artist, including a large-scale radio made from pine trees titled “The Keep”, three of the artists’s “Transportable Intergenerational Protective infrastructure (TIPI)” works, an immersive video, a series of speaker towers, and a group of Native Americans bustles, a traditional part of Native American Powwow regalia.

The work presented here is part of Luger’s ongoing project, Future Ancestral Technologies (FAT) that explores Indigenous futures presented through a lens of speculative fiction. Luger describes FAT as “a methodology, a practice, and a way of future dreaming that harnesses the power of science fiction to shape collective thinking and reimagine the future on a global scale.

“Speechless” asks important questions relating to human agency, language, and means of control. Who gets to speak? Who must bite their tongue? Whose messages are muted? What meanings remain to be discovered?

Tu-Sa 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Su 12-5 p.m.