For Generations PART III: Kathy Elkwoman Whitman speaks with Cannupa Hanska Luger

This is the final episode of a 3 part interview series featuring artist Kathy Elkwoman Whitman reflecting on her life and art in conversation with her son, artist Cannupa Hanska Luger. 

Kathy Elkwoman Whitman is a fearless artist who over the course of her life has continually taken creative risks and pushed conceptual boundaries in the Native Artworld. A true multidisciplinary artist and an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold, Elkwoman is a master stone and metal sculptor, a painter, a jeweler, and a fashion designer. Over the course of her career, Elkwoman has been honored with many prestigious awards and participated in numerous exhibitions around the world. She is a member of the Indigenous Sculptor Society and continues to lead art workshops and participate in artist residences throughout the United States. Her artwork is in many public collections and she continues to be acknowledged in the Indigenous Artworld as a groundbreaking artist of her generation. When asked about her life as an artist, Elkwoman reflects that what she truly loves and appreciates about her life is the ability to continue to create and impact the world with her artwork.

Cannupa Hanska Luger is a multidisciplinary artist and an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold and Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and Lakota descent. Through monumental installations, performance and social collaboration, Luger activates speculative fiction and communicates stories about 21st Century Indigeneity, combining critical cultural analysis with dedication and respect for the diverse materials, environments, and communities he engages. He lectures and produces large-scale projects around the globe.

This is a three session chronological broadcast series and it is recommended to listen to it in order.

Music featured in this episode: Why Did You Separate Me From The Earth by Anohni

This conversation was hosted by Cannupa Hanska Luger of Broken Boxes Podcast

For Generations PART II: Kathy Elkwoman Whitman speaks with Cannupa Hanska Luger

This is the second episode of a 3 part interview series featuring artist Kathy Elkwoman Whitman reflecting on her life and art in conversation with her son, artist Cannupa Hanska Luger. 

Kathy Elkwoman Whitman is a fearless artist who over the course of her life has continually taken creative risks and pushed conceptual boundaries in the Native Artworld. A true multidisciplinary artist and an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold, Elkwoman is a master stone and metal sculptor, a painter, a jeweler, and a fashion designer. Over the course of her career, Elkwoman has been honored with many prestigious awards and participated in numerous exhibitions around the world. She is a member of the Indigenous Sculptor Society and continues to lead art workshops and participate in artist residences throughout the United States. Her artwork is in many public collections and she continues to be acknowledged in the Indigenous Artworld as a groundbreaking artist of her generation. When asked about her life as an artist, Elkwoman reflects that what she truly loves and appreciates about her life is the ability to continue to create and impact the world with her artwork.

Cannupa Hanska Luger is a multidisciplinary artist and an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold and Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and Lakota descent. Through monumental installations, performance and social collaboration, Luger activates speculative fiction and communicates stories about 21st Century Indigeneity, combining critical cultural analysis with dedication and respect for the diverse materials, environments, and communities he engages. He lectures and produces large-scale projects around the globe.

This is a three session chronological broadcast series and it is recommended to listen to it in order.

Music featured in this episode: Woman Song by Sissy Goodhouse

This conversation was hosted by Cannupa Hanska Luger of Broken Boxes Podcast

For Generations PART I: Kathy Elkwoman Whitman speaks with Cannupa Hanska Luger

This is the first episode of a 3 part interview series featuring artist Kathy Elkwoman Whitman reflecting on her life and art in conversation with her son, artist Cannupa Hanska Luger. 

Kathy Elkwoman Whitman fearless artist who over the course of her life has continually taken creative risks and pushed conceptual boundaries in the Native Artworld. A true multidisciplinary artist and an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold, Elkwoman is a master stone and metal sculptor, a painter, a jeweler, and a fashion designer. Over the course of her career, Elkwoman has been honored with many prestigious awards and participated in numerous exhibitions around the world. She is a member of the Indigenous Sculptor Society and continues to lead art workshops and participate in artist residences throughout the United States. Her artwork is in many public collections and she continues to be acknowledged in the Indigenous Artworld as a groundbreaking artist of her generation. When asked about her life as an artist, Elkwoman reflects that what she truly loves and appreciates about her life is the ability to continue to create and impact the world with her artwork.

Cannupa Hanska Luger is a multidisciplinary artist and an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold and Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and Lakota descent. Through monumental installations, performance and social collaboration, Luger activates speculative fiction and communicates stories about 21st Century Indigeneity, combining critical cultural analysis with dedication and respect for the diverse materials, environments, and communities he engages. He lectures and produces large-scale projects around the globe.

This is a three session chronological broadcast series and it is recommended to listen to it in order.
Music featured in this episode: Pow Wow Woman by Buddy Red Bow

This conversation was hosted by Cannupa Hanska Luger of Broken Boxes Podcast

We Circle Back To Move Into The Future: Léuli Eshrāghi and Cannupa Hanska Luger

In this conversation, artists Léuli Eshrāghi and Cannupa Hanska Luger untangle topics of Indigenous futures, science fiction, belonging, and the possibilities of language.

Léuli Eshrāghi is a curator and artist of Sāmoan, 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. 

The 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. 

The 2021 Festival Book brings together voices from imagineNATIVE’s 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 HERE

The recorded conversation presented here was edited and produced by Broken Boxes Projects with permission from the artists and imagineNATIVE. 

Music featured: Suplex by Halluci Nation

Special thanks to Nikki Little and Vanessa Martin of imagineNATIVE for making this artist intersection possible.

This conversation was hosted by Cannupa Hanska Luger of Broken Boxes Podcast

Bonus episode: WE ARE AWAKE - Mixtape for Resistance

This bonus episode features a reworked live DJ set by DJ Miss Ginger at The Art Of Indigenous Resistance exhibition and concert at Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA, May 2017.

This mix is dedicated to all people who are awake and consciously fighting extractive industry, patriarchy, colonialism and standing up to protect our Mother Earth in whatever way you are able. This Mixtape Rework is dedicated to our brother Wake Self, Rest In Power.

Interludes featured are recordings of various water protectors onsite at Oceti Sakowin Camp gathered by Ginger Dunnill in 2016.

Music featured by:

The Water Song (artist unknown)
Alas
Kinnie Starr
Sacred Stone live onsite freestyle (anonymous)
Aisha Fukushima
Angel Haze
Rebel Diaz
Mob Bounce
A Tribe Called Red
Saul Williams
Tanya Tagaq
Legends & Lyrics
Nneka
Buffy Sainte Marie interview excerpt
Aceyalone
Wake Self
Audiopharmacy
Mr. Lif
Trevor Hall
Lyla June
Kumu Hina Chant onsite at Mauna Kea (DJ Miss Ginger rework)

Image: DJ MISS GINGER. Photo by The Werewulf Micah Wesley, 2017