October 23rd at 6:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Bito Auditorium
Artist and author Cannupa Hanska Luger will be discussing his graphic novel “SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide” with author and Bard College Written Arts Program Director, Dinaw Mengetsu on Thursday, October 23rd at 6:30 pm in the Reem-Kayden Center Bito Auditorium.
Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota) is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist and cultural innovator whose expansive practice introduces new methodologies, ideas, and speculative technologies rooted in Indigenous innovation. Through installation, performance, and community engagement, he uplifts cultural continuity, ecological repair, and collective care. His work is exhibited and collected internationally.
Dinaw Mengestu is the author of four novels, all of which were named New York Times Notable Books: “All Our Names” (Knopf, 2014), “How To Read the Air” (Riverhead, 2010), “The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears” (Riverhead, 2007), and “Someone Like Us” (Knopf, 2024). His articles and fiction have appeared in the New York Times, New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, Jane, and Rolling Stone.
Part graphic novel, part art book, “SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide” 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.