Immersia 2024: When You Call My Name

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.

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When You Call My Name  is a collaborative project honouring the 192 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.

Each participant will be given the name and an information kit on a particular Nikkei internee who died in an Australian WWII internment camp. 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 collated to create a large-scale collage for exhibition from March 2025.

 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.