Indigenous futurism

Curators, Theorists & Critics

Grace Dillon

Discussions

• Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Charisma Lepcha, Elspeth Iralu, Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia, Mabel Gergan, Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, Sara Smith, "The Road Beyond Ningwasum: A Roundtable on Himalayan Indigenous Futures", Moderated by Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, "UH Manoa Center for South Asian Studies Spring Symposium 2024: South Asian Futures", University of Hawai'i at Manoa, April 10-12, 2024.
• Osheen Siva, Subash Thebe Limbu, K.A. Geetha, Priteegandha Naik, "Formations – Adivasi and Dalit Futurism: Artists Subash Thebe Limbu and Osheen Siva in Conversation", CADALFEST (Celebrating Adivasi and Dalit Arts and Literature Festival), Bonington Gallery, Online, India and Nottingham, October 20 2022.
• Greg Cajete, “Native Science: The Indigenous Mind Rising”, University of New England Center for Global Humanities, University of New England Center, ME. Keynote Address. February 24 2020.

Exhibitions & Catalogues

2021

• Indigenous Futurisms: Transcending Past/Present/Future, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, February 13 2020–January 3, 2021. Works by Marcus Amerman, Bryon Archuleta, Sonny Assu, Nicholas Galanin, Teri Greeves, Luzene Hill, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Steven Paul Judd, Kite, Elizabeth LaPensée, Daniel McCoy Jr., James McCloud, Ehren Kee Natay, Shelley Niro, Virgil Ortiz, Devin Ronneberg, Sarah Sense, Ryan Singer, Skawennati, Hoka Skenandore, Neal Ambrose Smith, Robert Dale Tsosie, Jeffrey Veregge, Rory Wakemup, Will Wilson, Santiago X, Debra Yepa-Pappan.

Publications

Books

• Taryne Jade Taylor, Isiah Lavender III, Grace L. Dillon, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms], Routledge, Oct 2023, 716 pp. Publisher.
• Grace L. Dillon (Ed.), Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction, University of Arizona Press, 2012.

Magazines, Journals, Blogs

• Hina Siddiqui, "Cultural Futurism: Possibilities, Probabilities and Potential", Art Now Thus, May 29 2023.
• Vaaswat Saarkar, "Inside Artist Subash Thebe Limbu's Intersectional World Of Adivasi Futurism", Homegrown.co.in, May 05 2023.
• Saddaf Padder, "In Search of Inclusive South Asian Futurisms", Hyperallergic, March 22 2023.
• Chelsea Vowel, "Writing Toward a Definition of Indigenous Futurism", Literary Hub, June 10 2022.
• Abaki Beck, "Indigenous Futurism", We R Native.
• Grace Dillon, Pedro Neves Marques, "Taking the Science Fiction Out of Science Fiction: A Conversation About Indigenous Futurisms", eflux journal issue #120, September 2021.

Videos, Podcasts, Radio

• Anisha Baid, Subash Thebe Limbu, "Towards an Adivasi Futurism: An Interview with Subash Thebe Limbu", ASAP Art, March 16 2021.

Essays, Book Chapters

• "What Is Indigenous Futurism?", Center for Architecture Lab: Indigenous Scholars of Architecture, Planning and Design (ISAPD), May 2021.
• Subash Thebe Limbu, "Adivasi Futurism", August 09 2020.
• Grace L. Dillon, “Imagining Indigenous Futurisms”, Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction, University of Arizona Press, 2012, pp 1-12.

Conferences

• Danya Epstein, “Future Progressive: Dennis Numkena’s Indigenous Futurisms”, paper presented at the 109th CAA Annual Conference, February 11 2021.

See Also

Global South Futurisms, South Asian Futurisms, Dalit Futurism, Dalit Feminism, Adivasi Futurism, Chicano Futurism, Aboriginal Futurism, Subaltern Futurism, Amazofuturism, New World, Post Western, Tropical Futurism, Afrofuturism, Decolonization, Queer Studies, Queer Futurism, Protopia Futures, Ethno Futurism