2025 Immersia: When You Call My Name Exhibition Launch

We invite you to join us in an embodied journey of remembering. 

Over the past year, since 2024 Immersia, artworks have been created for each of two hundred and nine people who died as civilian internees in Australia or on their way to Australia during WW2.  Mostly born in Japan, they include Taiwanese, Thai, and Korean people who settled in the Dutch East Indies, Kanaky New Caledonia, Australia, Tonga, Aotearoa New Zealand, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea.

Guided by artist Mayu Kanamori, together we will create a collage of all the artworks, which will be displayed during Immersia.  Combining the ethos of remembrance and ‘irei’ (to console the spirits of the dead), each name will be called through an evocative sound installation while we work.

Please join us to create this moving memorial to ordinary people who have been all but erased from history and celebrate the complexity and timeless importance of identity.