Kith and Kin maps more than 65,000 years of First Nations Australian kinship through Kamilaroi/Bigambul artist Archie Moore's genealogical research, producing a monograph that is at once intimate family document and profound statement on sovereignty.
About This Book
Developed from Moore's deep research with family, community and archivists, Kith and Kin traces kinship ties spanning more than 2,400 generations — connecting personal and national histories through the common ancestors of all humans. The publication is inseparable from its corresponding exhibition, both commissioned by Creative Australia and curated by Ellie Buttrose. Where many artist monographs document finished work, this book is itself an act: a form of Indigenous language maintenance, a confrontation with colonisation's ongoing legacies, and a reframing of time. Past, present and future here are understood as coexistent — a First Nations epistemology that runs through every page of this remarkable document.
Key Features
- 304 pages of genealogical imagery, archival material, and critical essays on First Nations sovereignty and language maintenance
- Edited by Ellie Buttrose and Grace Lucas-Pennington; photography by Andrea Rossetti
- Published by Spector Books, ISBN 9783959058469
What You'll Discover
- How Moore's genealogical project traces kinship across more than 2,400 generations to reach the common ancestors of all humans
- Essays examining Moore's practice of Indigenous language maintenance as both political act and cultural continuity
- A sustained engagement with the overincarceration of Indigenous peoples in Australia as an ongoing colonial legacy
- A First Nations understanding of time in which past, present and future are not sequential but coexistent
About the Author
Archie Moore is a Kamilaroi/Bigambul artist known for politically astute and materially delicate portrayals of self and national histories. His practice engages with First Nations Australian sovereignty, kinship, and the long histories that colonial record-keeping has sought to suppress or erase.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 304
- Dimensions: 10.8 x 1 x 17.6 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783959058469
- Publisher: Spector Books
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Artists, curators, and researchers engaged with First Nations Australian art and history; those working in cultural sovereignty, decolonial practice, and contemporary art criticism.