When You Call My Name is a collaborative project honouring civilians who were brought from Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, across Australia and Aotearoa / New Zealand as ‘Japanese enemy aliens’ to be interned in Australia and Aotearoa / New Zealand during World War II, and died during internment.
They include 26 people from Taiwan and one from Korea, who were included among the Japanese because Taiwan and the Korean Peninsula were under the rule of Japan during the Pacific War. There are also three people from Thailand, who were originally interned in Aotearoa / New Zealand, and died in a plane crash on their way to be interned in Australia.
193 people are now buried in the Japanese Cemetery in Wiradjuri Country in Cowra, New South Wales, Australia; 12 people who died in the plane crash are buried at the Waikumete Cemetery in Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland; two who died on the voyage to Australia from Indonesia (the then Dutch East Indies) were buried at sea; the remains of one who died on Matiu / Somes Island were taken back to his family in Tonga by a friend; and one is unknown.
The project gave every participant an information kit on a particular internee to ‘adopt’. The participant was then asked to respond to their learnings with a 2D artwork, or a photograph of a work, which includes the name of the internee.
The artworks will be exhibited online, as a print catalogue and also be collated as a part of a large-scale group collage for exhibitions.
Our first exhibition will be held at the Australian National University in September 2025.
Launch: Thursday, 11 September 2025 5:30-7:00pm
Exhibition: Friday, 12 – Monday, 22 September 2025
Workshops: Friday, 12 September 2025 | 12:30-1:30pm & 5:30-7:00
Australian National University: Coombs Building Coombs Tea Room Foyer, 9 Fellows Rd Acton, ACT
Special Guest: Dr Yuriko Nagata, author Unwanted aliens: Japanese internment in Australia
Exhibition Opened by: Dr Keiko Tamura, Project Leader, Cowra Japanese Cemetery Online Database
RSVP: Humanitix
Artworks
- all have the internee’s name somewhere within the artwork
- are 2D artworks such as illustrations, paintings, photographs, collage, formatted text etc, or photographs of 3D works such as sculpture, dance, performance, music score etc
- delivered digitally as a high-res photo, a scan (min 5MB) or an original at A4 size
- copyright is held by the participant, but is licenced to this project
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When You Call My Name
本プロジェクトでは、参加者それぞれが特定の抑留者に関する情報キットを受け取り、それぞれの２Dアート作品または作品の写真が提出されました。各作品には与えられた抑留者の名前を何処かに入れて頂くのが条件でした。
作品はオンラインで展示され、カタログに印刷されると同時に大規模なコラージュ作品の一部として展示されます。
初展示はオーストラリア国立大学で行われます。
• ローンチイベント：2025年9月11日（木）午後5時30分～7時
• 展示：2025年9月12日（金）～22日（月）
• ワークショップ：2025年9月12日（金）午後12時30分～1時30分 & 午後5時30分～7時
会場：オーストラリア国立大学 クームズ(Coombs)ビル、ティールーム・ロビー
（9 Fellows Rd Acton, ACT 首都キャンベラ、オーストラリア）
• 特別ゲスト：永田由利子博士 （『オーストラリア日系人強制収容の記録 : 知られざる太平洋戦争』著者）
• 開会挨拶：田村恵子博士 （カウラ日本人墓地オンライン・データベース・ プロジェクト、リーダー）
参加申込： Humanitix
作品について
● 作品内のどこかに抑留者の姓名をいれていただきました。
● イラスト、絵画、写真、コラージュ、詩や文章や楽譜などなどの2D作品もしくは彫刻、ダンス、パフォーマンス、ビデオなどの3D作品の写真を提出して頂きました。
● 作品の著作権は参加者に帰属しますが、本プロジェクトでの使用を許可していただくことになります。