
Cannupa Hanska Luger's Time-Traveling Sculptures
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Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Sovereignty Suits reimagine the spacesuit as more than survival gear.
Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Sovereignty Suits reimagine the spacesuit as more than survival gear. Made of clay, steel, and cultural objects, these sculptures become vessels of memory and resilience—time travelers carrying our stories, reminding us that to journey forward, we must take our culture with us.
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Cannupa Hanska Luger's Time-Traveling Sculptures
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Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Sovereignty Suits reimagine the spacesuit as more than survival gear. Made of clay, steel, and cultural objects, these sculptures become vessels of memory and resilience—time travelers carrying our stories, reminding us that to journey forward, we must take our culture with us.
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[Applause] ♪ Man: There is all of this oligarchical money moving towards escaping the planet and going into space.
Branson: Whoo!
Man: The concept I want to kind of, like, push forward is we're in space.
Like, this is it.
[Speaks Indigenous language] I'm Cannupa Hanska Luger.
I'm a enrolled citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara tribes of North Dakota.
For PST, I'm making 3 figures wearing these suits that I've been calling Sovereignty suits.
All of the clay pieces that you see are the boots, gloves, and heads.
And the steel frame becomes the skeletal structure.
The Sovereignty suit is really me looking at NASA or cosmonauts, you know, anybody traveling into outer space, out of our atmosphere, and looking at what do we-- collectively as a species, what do we have to carry with us in order to be whole on the other side of any sort of travel?
I don't think, you know, your suit providing just air and water and shelter is enough for a people.
It's fine for an organism, but it's not enough for a culture, and so I'm trying to consider what it means to navigate through difficult or hostile environments and maintain yourself wholly.
The Sovereignty suit is kind of a response to that.
It's being informed by the technologies that we're using presently, but also, they're basically wearing a cabinet of cultural objects that are significant to the people who are carrying them.
♪ A sculpture is a time machine.
It is created in the present with information from the past to inform our future... and so these sculptures, I think, are time travelers.
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