PROFILE
My name is Mayu Kanamori. I am a Tokyo born artist living sometimes in Eora Country, otherwise known as Sydney and sometimes in Shinshu Shinanomachi. I take photographs, make collages, film and edit art documentaries, create performances, write plays and poems.
Website: https://mayu.com.au/
Instagram: @mayukanamori
CURRICULUM VITAE
1996 – Present
Philosopher’s Photos (artist, photographer, videographer, poet, storyteller, writer & researcher, producer/ as sole trader)
2024
A Compendium for Navigating Borderlands (Exhibition / Artist), Matsuyama University as part of Australian Studies Association of Japan Conference, Australia-Japan Foundation Series
Yasukichi Murakami – Through A Distant Lens (Play / writer), Osaka University Nakanoshima Centre Studio
2023
Yasukichi Murakami no Sekai-ten (Exhibition / Curator), Osaka University Nakanoshima Centre as part of Nakanoshima ni Itachi o Hanasu, Osaka University
Togatta Utamakura Project (Publication /artist in residence), Togatta Residence 044 Maruyoshi, Togatta
Kikuchi Arts Centre as part of group show Mirai Nikki / Future Diary (Group exhibition / artist), Enjoy Contemporary Artspace, Wellington
Yake-ato-Sedai (Generation Post-burnings) (Publication / poet), The Saltbush Review Issue 3
You wouldn’t like a very hot onsen & Vessel for the Honeysuckle (Publication / poet), Kalliope X Editorial Issue 4 Autumn 2023
Making of a Family Portrait (Publication / poet) Otoliths issue sixty-eight, southern summer, 2023
2022
Yasukichi Murakami Through A Distant Lens (Reading performance / writer), Ono Memorial Hall, Waseda University
Teiju to wa Nandaro (Exhibition / artist), Osaka University Museum as part of Shirushi no Ue o Tori ga Tobu, Osaka University
2021
You’ve Mistaken Me for a Butterfly (Film / writer / narrator / producer), Online, Shirushi no Ue o Tori ga Tobu, Osaka University
Untitled.Showa (Exhibition / facilitating artist), Level Up, 107 Projects @Central Park Mall
Untitled.Showa (Exhibition / facilitating artist), Geelong Library & Heritage Centre
Untitled.Showa (Exhibition / facilitating artist), Daiei Shopping Street, Uzumasa as part of KG+
Untitled.Showa (Exhibition / facilitating artist), Nexus Arts, Adelaide as part of OzAsia Festival
Untitled.Showa (Talk Event / facilitating artist), 107 Projects @Redfern, as part of Head On Photo Festival
2019
Cowra Voices (Audio smart phone app / creator audio stories), Nikkei Australia, Arts OutWest, Cowra Council and ABC Radio National
Cowra Japanese Cemetery Online Database (Online database / artist), Online
2018
You’ve Mistaken Me for a Butterfly (Theatre / writer / performer), Sex in the City, Customs House Library, Sydney
Bonnou, as part of Eclectic (Group Exhibition / artist), ten-forty-seven gallery, Alexandria
Nicola Gunn with a River Flow, as part of The Loud and Luminous Project (Group Exhibition / artist), Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy
2017
Artist in Residence (Aritst) Bundanon Trust
You’ve Mistaken Me for a Butterfly (Theatre / writer / performer), POETRY ON THE MOVE Boundary Crossings: A Festival of Poetry, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
You’ve Mistaken Me for a Butterfly (Theatre / writer / performer), Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS), Callaway Music Auditorium, University of Western Australia
You’ve Mistaken Me for a Butterfly (Theatre / writer / performer), Japan Studies Association of Australia Biennial Conference, Wollongong University
Artist in Residence, I Just Can’t Say that Word (Theatre / writer / performer), Rex Cramphorn Studio, Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, The University of Sydney
2016
Artist in Residence, You’ve Mistaken Me for a Butterfly (Researcher), Japan Studies Grant, Asian Collections, National Library of Australia
Yasukichi Murakami – Through a Distant Lens (Theatre / writer), Riverside Theatres
The Heart of the Journey (Film / director), Vivo Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, as part of thistDays#2
AWASE MISO (Performance / performer), All Saints Anglican Church, Canowindra
2015
Yasukichi Murakami – Through a Distant Lens (Theatre / writer), Griffin Theatre Company
AWASE MISO (Performance / performer), WEST Project Space, Sound Bites #20 Body #2
Lustre: Pearling & Australia (Museum exhibition / creator audio stories), Nyamba Buru Yawuru & WA Museum
Artist-in-Residence, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia
2014
Yasukichi Murakami – Through a Distant Lens (Theatre / writer), 2014 OzAsia Festival, 2014 Shinju Matsuri Festival & 2014 Darwin Festival
Born in the Year of the Horse (Visual installation & story-telling / initiating artist), Crossing Our Cultural Boundaries, City of Sydney Chinese New Year
Artist-in-Residence, Macquarie University, Dept of Media, Music, Communication & Cultural Studies
Jetty to Jetty Heritage Trail (Audio smart phone app / creator audio stories), Nyamba Buru Yawuru, Tourism WA & UDLA
Civilian Internment Arts Project (Workshops & performances / producer), Cowra Festival of International Understanding
2013
A Night of Wonder (AV installation, performance & sculpture / collaborating artist), Sunrice & CAD Factory Contemporary Arts Partnership Arts Residency
Dead Calm (Live Photography performance / performer), NOW-Now Festival
2012
CHIKA: A Documentary Performance (Theatre / creator, performer&producer), Festival Salihara, Jakarta
Beneath the Image – Conference paper with Dr Lorna Kaino, Visualising Australia, 13th Biennial GASt Conference, University of Stuttgart
Japanese Life Narratives – Conference presentation with Dr Keiko Tamura, Dr Yuriko Nagata, Dr Lorna Kaino, Framing Lives, 8th Biennial International Auto/Biography Association Conference, ANU
Japan Art Directory in Australia (On-line directory / curator), Japan Foundation, Sydney
2011
Broome You Are Here (Documentary performance & workshops / facilitator & producer), Burdikin Youth in Action, Nyamba Buru Yawuru, Goolarri Media & Shinju Matsuri Festival
From Our School House (AV installation / story-teller & artist), CAD Factory Arts Residency
Live Photography (Live Photography performance / performer), HeadOn Photo Festival
Narrowed Eyes on a Duplicate World (AV installation & performance /collaborating artist), Articulate Project Space
Weather Mind (Photographic exhibition / photographer), Kaleidoscope Gallery
Being Asian in Australia and the United States (ARC – DP0880038 / researcher for Dr Tseen Khoo, RMIT)
2010
In Repose (Theatre and exhibition / initiating artist, writer, performer & producer), OzAsia Festival & Japan Foundation, Sydney
B(e)aring Memory: Invoking the Dead, (Guest & collaborator for) Keynote speech by Jacqueline Lo, The Australiasian Association for Theatre Drama and Performance Studies, Australian National University
2009
First Generation (Solo exhibition / artist), Viva La Gong, Wollongong City Art Gallery
The Heart of the Journey to In Repose, (Featured artist), Asian Australian Identities Conference 3: Regionalising Asian Australian Identities, Curtin University
2007 – 2008
In Repose (Site specific performance & AV installation / initiating artist & producer), Thursday Island Japanese Cemetery & Gabi Titui Cultural Centre; Broome Japanese Cemetery & Gecko Gallery; Belgian Gardens Cemetery & Umbrella Studio
Island of the Ancients (Solo Exhibition / artist), Customs House Library
CHIKA: A Documentary Performance (Theatre / creator, performer & co producer), PerformanceSpace@ Carriagework, Sydney & OzAsia Festival
2005
CHIKA: A Documentary Performance (Theatre / creator, performer & co producer), C.U.B. Malthouse
2004
CHIKA (Radio documentary / producer), Radio Eye, ABC Radio National (repeat 2005)
2000 – 2004
The Heart of the Journey (Documentary performance / director & performer) 2004 YCAM (Yamaguchi Centre of Arts & Media), 2003 Darwin Festival, 2003 Christchurch Arts Festival, 2003 Post Mainstream Arts Festival, Tokyo, 2002 Carnivale, Performance Space, 2002 Fringe Festival, 2000 Shinju Festival
2000
The Heart of the Journey (Radio documentary / producer), Radio Eye ABC Radio National
Sugao no Australia (Solo photographic exhibition as photographic artist), Konica Plaza, Tokyo
1996 – 1997
Unseen Faces of Japan (Solo exhibition / artist), Japanese Gardens, Cowra & Japan Foundation, Sydney
Selected Publications:
Fukui, M., Kanamori, M., 2017. The creation of Nikkei Australia: Rediscovering the Japanese diaspora in Australia. Journal of Australian Studies 41, 388–396. doi:10.1080/14443058.2017.1344997
Kanamori, M., Mackie, V., 2017. You’ve Mistaken Me for a Butterfly. Japanese Studies 37, 387–394. doi:10.1080/10371397.2017.1363678
Kanamori, M., 2015. Would You Mind If I Settled Here? Amerasia Journal 36, 62–74. doi:10.17953/amer.36.2.980304k33443j073
Lo, J., Kanamori, M., 2013. Returning memory to earth: Towards Asian-Aboriginal reconciliation. Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture 4, 67–78. doi:10.1386/cjmc.4.1.67_1
Selected Publication Mentions:
Lo, J. (2013) ‘’Why should we care?’: Some thoughts on cosmopolitan hauntings’, Memory Studies, 6(3), pp. 345–358.
Miles, M. and Gerster, R. (2018). Pacific Exposures. ANU Press.
Steains, T. (2020) ‘Nikkei Australian Identity and the work of Mayu Kanamori’, Japan in Australia: Culture, Context and Connections, pp. 130 – 148.