
Cannupa Hanska Luger: Speechless
Through July 6, 2025
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
2001 Campus Drive
Durham, NC 27705
In Speechless, Cannupa Hanska Luger (2020 Awardee) explores and amplifies the problematic colonial history and the concept of cargo cults from an Indigenous perspective. Cargo cults developed as a result of Western military campaigns that sent crated, often airdropped, supplies to foreign lands inhabited by Indigenous peoples. In Luger’s words, the exhibition “flips the Western gaze back on itself to reflect that in present-day North American culture, we are all in a cargo cult.”
Cannupa Hanska Luger
Future Ancestral Technologies
Cannupa Hanska Luger is a multi-disciplinary artist of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota and European descent who uses social collaboration in response to timely and site-specific issues.
