PROJECTS

Cowra Voices & Cowra Japanese War Cemetery Online Database


Cowra Voices app and the Cowra Japanese War Cemetery Online Database, were collaborative projects with members of Nikkei Australia. They spanned for 3 years between 2016 and 2019.

You’ve Mistaken Me for a Butterfly

A performative essay reflecting on a rape case of a Japanese woman in Western Australia during the gold rush days. Collaboration with composer Terumi Narushima.

img_9793Yasukichi Murakami – Through a Distant Lens

“We take so many photographs. How do we know which ones are important, which ones matter?”
A multi media theatre production with photographic projections, video, original music, soundscape, and dramatic action on the life of Yasukichi Murakami and the search of his missing photographs. A meditation on love, truth and, in a digital age where cameras proliferate, the nature of photography.

Jetty to Jetty – Stories of Broome

Winner 2016 AILA WA Tourism Award
Yawuru’s heritage walk along the foreshore of Roebuck Bay. The appis an audio companion to the trail, including over 90 minutes of stories and music.
With Nyamba Buru Yawuru, UDLA and Shire of Broome.

05 copyBorn in the Year of the Horse

Video installation for 2014 City of Sydney Chinese New Year, Crossing Boundaries: A Celebration of Contemporary Asian Australian Art is an investigation into human stereotypes, which can often be negative, leading to racism or often positive, self-reinforcing and preventing deeper understanding of humanity.

IMG_7190i just can’t say that word

i just can’t say that word is a collaborative multi arts project between Mayu Kanamori and Vic McEwan in response to diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.

Live Photography

Experimental performances with simultaneous photo shoot and projection.

From Our School House 

Site-specific installation memory work in the Old Birrego School House. As a result of Cad Factory’s rural arts residency in collaboration with Vic McEwan.

In Repose

Site-specific multi arts work involving photographic and sound installation and performances in Japanese cemeteries in regional Australia. In collaboration with Wakako Asano, Satsuki Odamura and Vic McEwan.

Chika

Finalist, Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism, Radio Features with ABC Radio National

A documentary performance and radio documentary about the life of Chika Honda, who was wrongly incarcerated in Melbourne for a decade for a crime she did not commit.

The Heart of the Journey

Commendation, UN Media Association Media Peace Awards, Promotion of Multicultural Issues / Radio Feature with ABC Radio National

Non Indigenous Reconciliation Award, Broome Naidoc Awards

A performative slide show and radio documentary about Lucy Dann, an Indigenous woman who found out in her adult life that her biological father was Japanese.

Sugao no Australia

A photographic exhibition of subcultures in Australia.

Unseen Faces of Japan

A photographic exhibition of subcultures in Japan.