Books

SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide

SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide

$36.95 at de Young Museum.

An ambitious, world-envisioning work of Indigenous futurism. Since 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 Future Ancestral Technologies, this sprawling series of interrelated works seeks to reimagine Indigenous life and culture in a postcolonial world where space exploration has reduced and reconfigured…