Cannupa Hanska Luger is an indigenous contemporary artist and activist, working primarily in craft media and performance. While in residence at Temple Contemporary, Hanska Luger will be responding to Temple Contemporary’s Advisory Council question, “Who gets counted?” by working with our visitors and in ceramics workshops on the creation of Something To Hold Onto. This new work is the second project in Hanska Luger’s Counting Coup series which aims to utilize social collaboration to re-humanize large and abstract data through the process of creating handmade objects. In response to the number of Indigenous bodies found along the US/Mexico border since the 1990s, hundreds of communities across the U.S. and Mexico will create 7,000 one-inch unfired clay beads that will be strung together in a monumental installation, for an eventual display in the Mesa Art Center in Arizona.