9 & 10 September 2014 7:30pm Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
My date on Yasukichi Murakami – Through a Distant Lens was beautiful Jacinta Thompson, former Artistic Director of OzAsia Festival. We met in the Space Theatre foyer with a heartfelt embrace. Many Asian Australian artists have developed their careers because of Jacinta’s vision and long-term curatorial commitment in nurturing the growth of an artist like myself. OzAsia Festival not only brings to Australian audiences art from Asia, but has actively invested in the Asian stories within Australia. The importance of their longer term curatorial vision must be congratulated and held in reverence.
Working with the professional people and facility at the Adelaide Festival Centre along with the excellent OzAsia team with current Artistic Director Joe Mitchell, our show excelled, bringing in many favourable reviews. We were blessed with great publicists throughout our Darwin, Broome and Adelaide tours, and have received much publicity, which is of course excellent for the show itself, but in the wider sense, we have been able to add to the legacy of Yasukichi Murakami and to rekindle the memory of the pre war Japanese contribution to Australia.
Reviews
Realtime: 8th OzAsia Festival 2014 Culture’s haunted houses by Ben Brooker
Realtime: 2014 Darwin Festival, Cultural syntheses: north-south, east-west by Nicola Fearn
The Advertiser: OzAsia migration lay Through a Distant Lens puts Japan in focus by Louise Nunn
In Daily: Murakami: a life lost and rediscovered by Gregg Elliott
Glamadelaide: OzAsia Theatre Review: Yasukichi Murakami – Through a Distant Lens
Selected Media Links
ABC News: Japanese photographer, pearling pioneer Yasukichi Murakami honoured in Broome
-Posted by Mayu Kanamori
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