{"product_id":"surviva-a-future-ancestral-field-guide","title":"SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Canuppa Hanska Luger\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAora\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9\/2\/2025, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9781961814264\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn ambitious, world-envisioning work of Indigenous futurism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSince 2015--through a proliferation of forms including sculpture, regalia, film, photography, poetry, painting, and installation--acclaimed multimedia artist Cannupa Hanska Luger has been weaving together strands of a new myth. Collectively referred to as \u003ci\u003eFuture Ancestral Technologies\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart graphic novel, part art book, \u003ci\u003eSURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide\u003c\/i\u003e offers readers a view beneath, beyond, and between the lines of Luger's ever-expanding artistic universe. In this ecstatically hybrid work, Luger transforms a 1970s military survival guide through poetic redaction, speculative fiction, and iterative line drawing--deftly surfacing and disrupting the colonial subconscious that haunts this vexed source text. An epic and timely meditation on planetary life in the midst of transformation, \u003ci\u003eSURVIVA \u003c\/i\u003eboldly presents an earth-based, demilitarized futuredream that foregrounds Indigenous knowledge as critical to humanity's survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSURVIVA \u003ci\u003eis the first title from Aora Books, a publishing imprint dedicated to exploring transformational thought and culture that transcends borders, disciplines, and traditions. Rooted in an ethos of polyvocality and planetary consciousness, Aora publishes works that forge bold connections across time, place, ideas, and beings often seen as separate. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Cannupa Hanska Luger has created a wondrous book of survivance, a story to carry in pocket and study at every opportunity. At once a dystopia (earth is near destroyed) and a postcolonial fantasy (the colonizers abandon the planet for good), \u003ci\u003eSURVIVA \u003c\/i\u003eis a work of artistic brilliance that draws our attention to the simultaneity of ruins and futures. Rich with dreampower and evocation, these pages illustrate the mysteries of space-time, the dissolution of boundaries, and the relational universe described by Indigenous quantum mechanics. Read carefully, \u003ci\u003eSURVIVA \u003c\/i\u003ehas the power to bend time itself, lifting us from past and present into futures innumerable.\" -- Philip J. Deloria, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University and author of \u003ci\u003ePlaying Indian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSURVIVA \u003c\/i\u003efeels everlasting and also like it will self-destruct after you read it.\" -- Sterlin Harjo, filmmaker, \u003ci\u003eReservation Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCannupa Hanska Luger \u003c\/b\u003eis a multidisciplinary artist who creates monumental installations, sculpture, and performance to communicate urgent stories of twenty-first-century Indigeneity. Born on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, Luger is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold and is Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, and Lakota. Luger's bold visual storytelling presents new ways of seeing our collective humanity while foregrounding an Indigenous worldview. His work is in numerous permanent museum collections and has been exhibited around the world, including at the Sharjah Biennial 16, United Arab Emirates; the 81st Whitney Biennial, New York; the 14th Shanghai Biennale; and at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Gardiner Museum in Toronto; and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Georgia. Luger has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, United States Artists, Creative Capital, the Smithsonian Institution, the Open Society Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation, among others. Luger currently lives and works in Glorieta, NM.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52069381407003,"sku":"Surviva","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/files\/SURVIVA_PGW_export-1568x2398.jpg?v=1776362571","url":"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/surviva-a-future-ancestral-field-guide","provider":"Burning Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}