Future Ancestral Technologies: Odyssey

In this installation, visitors of all ages are immersed in a towering landscape as a massive airship floats mysteriously overhead. Optical devices scattered throughout the space invite us to shift our perspective and imagine new ways to engage with the land. Encouraging thoughtful future dreaming for how we engage with the world around us, this site-specific project is part of an ongoing series by Luger called Future Ancestral Technologies. Combining speculative fiction with an Indigenous lens, Luger’s work provides us a space for futuristic vision in which societies live in true reverence and acknowledgment of the land.

Luger is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold and is  Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and Lakota. His work, spanning installations, sculpture, and performance, highlights 21st-century Indigeneity and encourages land-based actions and social collaboration.