{"product_id":"surviva-a-future-ancestral-field-guide","title":"SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2026 PEN\/Jean Stein Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"An ambitious, world-envisioning work of Indigenous futurism.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFuture Ancestral Technologies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart graphic novel, part art book, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSURVIVA \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eboldly presents an earth-based, demilitarized futuredream that foregrounds Indigenous knowledge as critical to humanity’s survival.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished by Aora Books\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e162 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e5.6 x 0.8 x 8.3 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/tags\/cannupa-hanska-luger\/\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCannupa Hanska Luger\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e is 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aora Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42385514496035,"sku":null,"price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0148\/9715\/files\/81R0sXiSU-L._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.png?v=1777567586","url":"https:\/\/colossal.shop\/products\/surviva-a-future-ancestral-field-guide","provider":"The Colossal Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}