Yasukichi Murakami
Through a Distant Lens
As part of Darwin Festival
When: Tue 19 Aug 8.15pm
Wed 20 Aug 6pm & 8.15pm
Duration: 1hr 15mins
Where: Brown’s Mart Theatre
Tickets: Full $36
Conc & Group (8+) $30
Japanese born Yasukichi Murakami arrived in Australia in 1897 and became a photographer, entrepreneur and inventor in Broome then Darwin. In 1941 he and his family were arrested as enemy aliens. Their belongings were impounded, and his photographs were lost. Murakami died in internment.
Contemporary photographer and performance maker Mayu Kanamori tells the story of her search for Murakami’s photographs in a new work combining photographic projections, video, narration, music and performance. If photographs are moments frozen in time, then Murakami, the performance, unlocks those moments with the warmth of memory, family, humour and truth. What begins as a search for the past becomes a quest for immortality.
Written by Mayu Kanamori
Directed by Malcolm Blaylock
Music by Terumi Narushima
Dramaturg Jane Bodie
Visual Design Mic Gruchy
Lighting Design Luiz Pampolha
Performed by Arisa Yura & Kuni Hashimoto
with Yumi Umiumare
Produced by Annette Shun Wah, Performance 4a
IMAGE: Miho Watanabe
more info:
http://www.darwinfestival.org.au/show/yasukichi-murakami/more-info
Murakami is developed with the assistance of the Federal Government through its arts funding and advisory body, the Australia Council; Creative Ecologies Lab, Media, Music, Communications and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University; the Northern Territory Government; and Playwriting Australia.
A huge thanks to our Pozible supporters and generous donors for helping us get this new production to Darwin Festival.
