Happy Earth Day - JUST ANNOUNCED: Starting on June 5, 2024, "Attrition," a site-specific sculptural installation by interdisciplinary artist Cannupa Hanska Luger, will debut in City Hall Park in Lower Manhattan! Luger’s 10-foot-long steel bison skeleton will lie within a bed of grasses native to this region, highlighting the profound interdependence between animals, humans, and the land. 🦬
Placed on the pathway to City Hall, "Attrition" symbolically engages with New York City’s heart of policy-making, bringing to light the history of the bison’s survival and will serve as a catalyst for deeper exploration into environmental stewardship, Indigenous land history, and humanity’s true position and responsibility: not as a possessor of the land, but as an extension of it.
The sculptural work’s material composition also alludes to the romanticized “Wild West” narrative of expansion and industrialization in the United States: the steel skeleton references the production of calcium carbonate from burned bison bones, which was used for building and railroad materials and agricultural fertilizer.
Cannupa Hanska Luger is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold and is Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and Lakota - an identity that deeply informs his works in sculpture, installation, performance and video. His bold style of visual storytelling presents new ways of seeing our humanity while foregrounding an Indigenous worldview.
Starting on June 5 through November 17, 2024, "Cannupa Hanska Luger: Attrition" will be on view in City Hall Park in Lower Manhattan. The exhibition can be explored anytime, anywhere, on the free Bloomberg Connects app.
Learn more about the artist and the exhibition at our website!
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