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“We take so many photographs. How do we know which ones are important, which ones matter?” 
Japanese photographer, entrepreneur and inventor Yasukichi Murakami was the talk of the town in Broome and Darwin in the early 1900s, until the outbreak of the Second World War saw him and his family, like all Japanese in Australia, interned as enemy aliens. Murakami’s photographs were impounded and subsequently lost. Using photographic projections, video, original music, soundscape, and dramatic action, Japanese-Australian photographer and writer Mayu Kanamori goes in search of Murakami’s lost photographs. Uncovering a fascinating story of unlikely friendships, thwarted ambition and unrequited love,Yasukichi Murakami stirs our collective amnesia about the history of the Japanese in Australia. Yasukichi Murakami is a meditation on love, truth and, in a digital age where cameras proliferate, the nature of photography. About Murakami – A Project Blog Created and written by Mayu Kanamori Directed by Malcolm Blaylock Music and sound design by Terumi Narushima Dramaturg Jane Bodie Visual Design Mic Gruchy Lighting Design Luiz Pampolha Dramturgic Consultant Yuji Sone Performed by Arisa Yura & Kuni Hashimoto with Yumi Umiumare Produced by Annette Shun Wah, Performance 4a Darwin Festival http://www.darwinfestival.org.au/show/yasukichi-murakami/more-info 19 August. 2014, 8:15pm 20 August, 2014, 6pm and 8:15pm (two shows) Brown’s Mart Theatre Shinju Matsuri Festival, Broome http://www.shinjumatsuri.com.au/events/murakami-project 05 September 2014, 7:30pm 06 September 2014, 7:30pm 06 Septmember 2014 Artist Talk Time TBA Oz Asia Festival http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/ozasia-festival/shows/yasukichi-murakami-through-a-distant-lens/ 09 September. 2014. 7:30pm followed by Artist Talk 8:45pm 10 September, 2014, 7:30pm Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre Stables Theatre, Griffin Theatre Company 10-21 February, 2015. 7 pm Mon-Fri; 2 pm and 7 pm Sat Riverside Theatres 16-19 March, 2016 7:30 pm; Thursday 12 pm and 7:30 pm; Sat 2:30 and 7:30[,
Murakami is developed with the assistance of the Federal Government through its arts funding and advisory body, the Australia Council; Creative Ecologies Lab, Media, Music, Communications and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University; the Northern Territory Government; Japan Foundation, Sydney, and Playwriting Australia.
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