Project: Robert Andrew, “Within An Utterance”
Exhibition: MONA, 2022

Curated by Emma Pike

Within An Utterance continued the work of Robert Andrew, excavating biography—his own, and others’—and unearthing lost family histories, in collaboration with Pakana curator Zoe Rimmer, Aboriginal linguistic consultant Theresa Sainty, and cultural burning practitioner and Wakka Wakka man Luke Mabb.

Three new works delved into the buried history of Lutruwita (Tasmania) and respond to conversations Robert has had with local speakers of palawa kani: the revived language of Tasmanian Aboriginal people; and a complex ongoing project drawing upon community memory, extant voice recordings and European written records of the island’s original languages.