Event | Yasukichi Murakami: Through A Distant Lens | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Venue | Stables Theatre, Darlinghurst, NSW | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Umbrella Event | Griffin Theatre Company 2015 Special Extra | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First Date | 10 February 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opening Date | 12 February 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Date | 21 February 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dates Estimated | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Status | Professional | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Premiere | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Part of a Tour | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description | 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 and soundscape, 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, Yasuki |
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Primary Genre | Theatre - Spoken Word | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Multimedia
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Culture
Japan Photography |
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Text Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Production Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event Status | Completed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Event Identifier | 109036 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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