Be exhibited as part of a poignant community art project honouring the 192 civilians who perished during WWII internment in Australia, commemorating their Nikkei legacies.
When You Call My Name is a collaborative project honouring civilians who were brought from South East Asia, Pacific Islands and across Australia as ‘Japanese aliens’ to be interned in Australia during WWII, and who died during internment. They include 26 people from Taiwan and one from Korea. They were included with the Japanese because Taiwan and the Korean Peninsula were under the rule of Japan during the Pacific War. 192 of the 194 people are now buried in the Japanese Cemetery in Cowra, NSW, Australia. Two who died on the voyage to Australia were buried at sea.
The project gives every participant an information kit on a particular internee to ‘adopt’. The participant will be asked to respond to their learnings with a 2D artwork, or a photograph of a work, which includes the name of the internee.
The resulting artworks will be exhibited online, as a print catalogue and as a part of a large-scale collage for exhibition.
Join us to hear about the project and the history of civilian incarceration during WW2 from Dr. Sophie Constable. Photographer Mayu Kanamori will talk about her artistic process, then we will brainstorm what sort of artwork you could make.
Workshop:
Time / Date: Mon 9th Sep 2024, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm AEST
Location: Canberra – ANU Seminar Room F (3.304), HC Coombs Building 9 Fellows Road Acton, ACT 2601
https://events.humanitix.com/immersia-2024-when-you-call-my-name
