Uŋziwoslal Wašičuta
Transportable Intergenerational Protection Infrastructure (TIPI)
Luger’s Uŋziwoslal Wašičuta installation series celebrates the Transportable Intergenerational Protection Infrastructure (TIPI), revealing the relationship between Northern Plains technology and broader forms of knowledge within an Indigenous centered continuum to dream of a future that embraces solutions and survival.
Uŋziwoslal Wašičuta installation reveals the relationship between Northern Plains technology and broader forms of knowledge within an Indigenous centered continuum to dream of a future that embraces speculative fiction as a vessel for solutions and survival. The viewer is invited to witness a future dream space which is not ours to inhabit, but rather asks us to pay attention to our own relationship to place. Through this science fiction motivated installation, Luger challenges our collective thinking to imagine a post-capitalist, post-colonial future where humans restore their bonds with the earth and each other, and the artist asks us to consider how we will dream of our collective future.
Uŋziwoslal Wašičuta
Cannupa Hanska Luger, 2021-2022
Site specific installation at The Amarillo Museum of Art
“Consider first that this installation is not an object in space, but in time. Then imagine it is not a relic of the past but in fact, we are. Now we may relax our gaze and realize that this installation is not inverted, but that our current world is upside down. Future Ancestral Technologies looks to customs in order to move us forward, advancing new materials and new modes of thinking by utilizing science fiction theory, creative storytelling, Indigenous technology and contemporary materials to present future landscapes of harmony. ”
— Cannupa Hanska Luger
Uŋziwoslal Wašičuta
Cannupa Hanska Luger, 2021-2022
Site specific installation at The Albuquerque Museum of Art
