Process and Practice: Cannupa Hanska Luger in conversation
VIRTUAL | WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 6, 6:30 - 7:30 PM ET
Join Dieu Donné virtually on Wednesday, December 6th from 6:30 - 7:30 pm ET for Process & Practice: Cannupa Hanska Luger in conversation with Apsara DiQuinzio and Tatiana Ginsberg.
In this virtual talk, artist Cannupa Hanska Luger will discuss his exploration of papermaking in the context of his multidisciplinary artistic practice with Apsara DiQuinzio, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nevada Museum of Art, and Tatiana Ginsberg, Dieu Donné Director of Artistic Projects and Master Collaborator. Rooted in generational knowledge of Indigenous craft and art, Luger creates monumental artworks utilizing repurposed materials, ceramics, textiles, steel, and digital media. In an ongoing collaboration with Dieu Donné, Luger has created handmade paper feathers and bustles to replicate and reinterpret customary regalia of Northern Plains tribes as part of a larger body of new work, Speechless, currently on view at the Nevada Museum of Art. Join us to learn more about his creative process to reclaim and reframe 21st century North American Indigeniety and its powerful global relevance, addressing the legacies of cultural appropriation and colonization.
ABOUT THE PANELISTS
Cannupa Hanska Luger (b.1979) is a New Mexico-based multidisciplinary artist creating monumental installations, sculpture and performance to communicate urgent stories of 21st 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. His work has been exhibited at The National Gallery of Art, DC, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gardiner Museum, Toronto and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Georgia. Luger has been awarded fellowships from Guggenheim, United States Artists, Creative Capital, Smithsonian and Joan Mitchell Foundation. Website
Apsara DiQuinzio is the Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nevada Museum of Art. Since joining the Nevada Museum of Art in 2021, she initiated and leads the institution's first Green Team, which works to increase sustainability awareness and policy changes within the institution. She recently organized Cannupa Hanska Luger: Speechless, as well as Elisheva Biernoff: Reservoirs of Time, currently on view at the Museum. Previously she was the Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Phylllis C. Watis MATRIX Curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, where she organized over 40 exhibitions. She has also held curatorial positions at SFMOMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art. DiQuinzio has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogs and publications, including Artforum, Mousse, The Exhibitionist, and Cura.
Tatiana Ginsberg studied papermaking and book arts at the University of Iowa Center for the Book and received her MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara. In between she spent two years in Japan researching naturally dyed papers under a Fulbright grant. Returning to the U.S. she taught papermaking, printmaking, book arts, and drawing in universities for more than a decade. As Director of Artistic Projects and Master Collaborator at Dieu Donné she works with other artists to make new work in handmade paper. She also edits the series Papermaker’s Tears: Essays on the Art and Craft of Paper for The Legacy Press. Her own work combines traditional and contemporary methods of papermaking and is exhibited nationally and internationally.