Future Ancestral Technologies is Indigenous science fiction - a methodology, a practice, a way of future dreaming rooted in continuum.  As an artist and craftsperson, I understand how the very act of making creates future potential. The process of Future Ancestral Technologies imagines, enacts and prototypes experiences that engage Indigenous cultures to thrive into the future. Looking to customs in order to move us forward, this work advances Indigenous methodologies and sustainable modes of thinking by utilizing speculative fiction, creative storytelling and materials sourced from the detritus of capitalism to present time bending landscapes of myth.

This series invites us to consider how we choose to dream of our collective future while challenging us to imagine a vibrant post-capitalist, post-colonial experience where humans restore their bonds with the earth and each other.  Whereas our current society is obsessed with the development of mechanisms as so-called technology, Future Ancestral Technologies points out that technology is not the mechanism, but the ideas carried throughout time.  Using  mechanisms of installation, video and land-based performance work, multi-pronged narratives of possibility are created to reclaim and reframe the technology of my Indigenous ancestors. Placing the past and the future in dialogue, this work demonstrates the interconnected relationships between human beings and the land, maintaining the continuum of Future Ancestral Technologies.