We Circle Back To Move Into The Future: Leuli Eshraghi and Cannupa Hanska Luger
In this conversation, artists L\xe9uli Eshr\u0101ghi and Cannupa Hanska Luger untangle topics of Indigenous futures, science fiction, belonging, and the possibilities of language.\n\nL\xe9uli Eshr\u0101ghi is a curator and artist of S\u0101moan, Persian and Guangdong heritage with a few Marshallese, English and German ancestors, living and working in Mparntwe/Alice Springs for the past year. Cannupa Hanska Luger is a multidisciplinary artist based in New Mexico, USA. He is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, and European heritage. \n\nThe written version of this peer to peer conversation is featured in the 2021 Festival Book the 22nd annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival which took place online October 19-24, 2021 celebrating Indigenous storytelling in film, video, audio, and digital and interactive art. \n\nThe 2021 Festival Book brings together voices from imagineNATIVE\u2019s international community. Through essays, personal reflections, conversations, and poems, the Festival Book give readers insight into the overarching curatorial theme Fall Camp, Official Selected works in Audio, Digital + Interactive, and Film + Video, and Guest-Curated programs in Film at the online 2021 Festival. Purchase the publication which features this peer to peer conversation and so much more at https://store.imaginenative.org/collections/publications-collection/products/2021-festival-book-pre-sale\n\nThe recorded conversation presented here was edited and produced by Broken Boxes Podcast with permission from the artists and imagineNATIVE. \n\nMusic featured: Suplex by Halluci Nation\n\nSpecial thanks to Nikki Little and Vanessa Martin of imagineNATIVE for making this artist intersection possible.