Why this book today?
Well, it could be that he saw an Instagram post by documenta 14 curator Natasha Ginwala celebrating Miriam Cahn’s work?
Or is it because he missed the ImagineNative opening night screening of Danis Goulet’s dystopian thriller Night Raiders set in 2043, and somehow wanted to connect Cahn’s brutal imagery of humans fleeing violence with that of an underground group of Indigenous warriors determined to rescue their abducted children stolen by the state?
Probably both. (This ghost doesn’t believe in coincidences) and probably more than these two, since as Postcommodity reminded us a few years ago in their Artist Op-Ed for the Walker Art Center: 2043, No Es Un Sueño (a desire for Indigenous futures manifested in their recent commission by Angela Two Stars Okciyapi (Help Each Other).
