![a camera person in the foreground directs a young child and adult in a cave](/sites/default/files/styles/convert_to_webp/public/2021-09/cannupa_0812_res_MV_2021.jpg.webp?itok=k9JRomfp)
In Residence: Cannupa Hanska Luger
In September, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Ginger Dunhill, their two children 'Io Kahoku and Tsesa, and the EMPAC team filmed in various public locations around Troy, NY, for a newly-commissioned moving image work.
This footage will subsequently be combined with footage recently shot in collaboration with Gabe Fermin in the White Sands desert to make a new video work. Here are a few behind-the-scenes images of the shoot.
Part of Cannupa Hanska Luger’s ongoing series Future Ancestral Technologies, this project incorporates artist-made regalia, props, videos, and performance, and explores alternative possible futures for sites of post-industrial extraction, reimaging them anew through speculative oral histories for the future.
The project is curated by Paulina Ascencio Fuentes, Yihsuan Chiu, Christine Nyce, and Gee Wesley, recent graduates from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and will premiere in Fall 2021.
All Images: Production still from Future Ancestral Technologies. Main Image: Video engineer Ryan Jenkins lines up a shot in the Poestenkill gorge for Cannupa Hanska Luger's residency shoot in September, 2021. Photo: Michael Valiquette.
![a child looking at a video monitor in a rocky gorge with sound and camera people in the background.](/sites/default/files/2021-09/cannupa_P9010055_res_SG_2021.jpg)
![a group of people walking in a old post-industrial building, followed by a steadicam operator.](/sites/default/files/2021-09/cannupa_2156_res_MV_2021.jpg)
![two camera monitors showing the actors](/sites/default/files/2021-09/cannupa_2118_res_MV_2021.jpg)
![four actors walk on a leafy path toward a steadicam in a deciduous forest](/sites/default/files/2021-09/cannupa_1597_res_MV_2021.jpg)
![a man in a samauri-like costume with a lightsaber in a cave above a river](/sites/default/files/2021-09/cannupa_01_res_SG_2021.jpg)
![a young boy points a large stick at the rocks at the bottom of a waterfall in a deep gorge.](/sites/default/files/2021-09/cannupa_1156_res_MV_2021.jpg)
![two people laying inside concrete water pipes against a graffiti wall](/sites/default/files/2021-09/cannupa_2317_res_MV_2021.jpg)