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2007  
In Repose
A site-specific collaborative multi art project with video, sound and performance artists in response to Townsville’s Belgian Gardens Cemetery, Japanese section by Australian and Japanese artists:
2007  
Bacio della Vita
Bacio della Vita is images and sounds from the island of Sardinia. The photographs were taken by Mayu Kanamori. The music was composed by Jim Denley, using a launedda, a traditional Sardinian wind instrument and voices of some of Sardinia's centenarians.
Bacio della Vita was shown as part of Cross Projections 2007 in Sydney in October and Festival No Arte 2007 in San Sperade.
2007  
In Repose
Mayu Kanamori's documentation images from "Gathering Ground 2006" including images from "Back on the Block", was on plasma screen display at Redfern Community Centre as part of City of Sydney History Week 2007.
2007  
Back on the Block
Thought of Love Anyway


Thought of Love Anyway was selected for Julie Millowick Photography Award 2007. It was exhibited at the Old Castlemaine Goal as part of Castlemaine State Festival

2006  
the other APT
Mayu Kanamori and Lucy Dann's
part of the other APT
The other APT will coincide with the Asia Pacific Triennial at the Queensland Art Gallery

2006   Yamashita In Repose

Compact Prints 2006

Umbrella Studio

Townsville
2006  
Artist Talk & Presentation by Mayu Kanamori & Shigeaki Iwai
Navigator: Takashi Serizawa
Asahi Art Square Asahi Art Square, Asakusa, Tokyo
2006   Time Place Space
Mayu was selected to attend the residential laboratory Time_Place_Space, a five-year, national initiative that aims to challenge, invigorate and strengthen the area of hybrid arts practice in Australia, with an emphasis on performance.
2006   Cowra Art Gallery
Our Story
Installation project with visual artist Tony Dagg and students from Canowindra High School sponsored by Cowra Art Gallery and NSW Ministry for the Arts.
2006  
Teiju to wa Nandaro
Back on the Block
Mayu Kanamori's black and white photographs from 996 were projected onto walls of houses along Eveleigh Street as part of Gathering Ground 2006.
2005  
Teiju to wa Nandaro
Teiju to wa Nandaro
Mayu Kanamori's photomedia work ‘Teiju to wa Nandaro‘ was exhibited as part of the annual exhibition of finalists from the prestigious Conrad Jupiters Art Prize at the Gold Coast City Art Gallery
2005  
One Sunday Underwater
Sarah
'Sarah' was a Finalist in The Olive Cotton Award 2005. The Olive Cotton Award is an annual award for excellence in photographic portraiture, funded by Cotton’s family. The exhibition of finalists was exhibited at the Tweed River Art Gallery.
2005  
Judy and Alan
One Sunday Underwater
One Sunday Underwater, an underwater photo of a woman/marine mammal, was part of an online auction of artworks to raise money for Greenpeace .
2005  
Judy and Alan
Documentation of De Quincey Co’s
Dictionary of Atmospheres

Alice Springs Festival of the Desert 2005, as part of an ongoing collaboration
between Mayu Kanamori & De Quincey Co
2005  
Judy and Alan
Judy & Alan
was shortlisted & subsequently exhibited as in the
The Harries National Digital Art Prize as part of 2005 International Digital Art Awards at the QUT Art Museum, Gardens Point & Creative Industries Precinct, Kelvin Grove. (July - September 2005)
2005  
REAL TIME + On Screen Review
Chika Review
(April / May 2005)
2005   Wikipedia Entry
2005   ABC 7:30 Report
Convicted drug trafficker maintains innocence

Interview by Peter McCutcheon, Presented by Kerry O’Brien. 21st June, 2005
2005   CHIKA: Radio Program
Broadcast on A World in Your Ear on the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). 1 May 2005
2005 Chika
Chika premiered on the 23th of February, 2005 at The C.U.B. Malthouse in Melbourne
2005 Chika on ABC Radio National
The radio program Chika featured on ABC Radio National's Radio Eye: Features and Documentaries in January, 2005. The program features original music by Tom Fitzgerald in collaboration with koto virtuoso Satsuki Odamura and narration by Mayu Kanamori. Sound engineering and design by Andrei Shabunov. Co-produced by Nick Franklin and Mayu Kanamori.
2004 Chika In association with ABC Radio National
Finalist: in the Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism
Radio Feature, Documentary or Broadcast Special Category
2004 RAIHAI
Three short video works, entitled New Year in Wimmera, Hakamairi and Mizuko. Mayu uses a series of still photographs, voices and music to introduce an aspect of the Japanese migrant psyche to Australians.
2004 Doing Oz
A series of everyday photographs depicting Japanese migrants in Australia taking on and enjoying the culture of their new home - Australia.
2004 One Sunday In Our New
A portrait of Japanese migrants in Australia doing things Australian. Originally commissioned by the Japan Club of Sydney.
2004 Chika on ABC Radio National
The radio program Chika featured on ABC Radio National's Radio Eye: Features & Documentaries on the 28th February, 2004.
2003
Chika workshops in Melbourne
Workshops for the documentary performance CHIKA were held in Melbourne in December, 2003. Live music by composer Tom Fitzgerald and Satsuki Odamura and physical performance by Yumi Umiumare was successfully integrated with Mayu Kanamori's documentary of Chika Honda's story under the direction of Malcolm Blaylock and filmed by Jon Armstrong.
2003
Chika
Chika is a contemporary way of story telling; a documentary performance about Chika Honda, one of five Japanese tourists arrested in Melbourne in 1992 for importing heroin.
Chika received a development grant from Australia Council for the Arts New Media Arts Board & ABC Radio National
2003 Japan Cultural Centre's 10th Anniversary Forum
Mayu participated as MC in the Japan Cultural Centre's 10th Anniversary Forum on the 25th October. She also worked as an interviewer for the Japan Cultural Centre video production for this event & has been entered in the Artist Archive Project which has been designed to introduce contemporary artists at the Australia and Japan interface.
2003
Freedom to Speak
Mayu is proud to have mentored this project, an art website by Hoang Vo in the creation process
2003
40 years of Kanamori
The online tribute to all who contributed to Mayu's birthday celebration
2000 - 2003
The Heart of the Journey
A sound & slide documentary which premiered as part of Broome's annual Shinju Matsuri Festival. The radio feature which aired on Radio Eye received a commendation in the 2000 Media Peace Awards. The Heart of the Journey toured nationally as part of the Best of the St Kilda Film Festival & appeared by invitation at the Tokyo Performing Arts Market.
§ Pearl Luggers, August 2000 Broome
§ Blue Room Theatre, February 2001 Perth
§ The St Kilda Film Festival May 2001
     Melbourne, Sydey, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide
§ National Library of Australia October 2001
§ Adelaide Fringe February-March 2002
§ Tokyo Performing Arts Market 2002
§ Carnivale 2002 Sydney
§ Image Forum Tokyo, March 2003
§ Singapore Arts Festival June 2003
§ Christchurch Arts Festival July 2003
§ Festival of Darwin August 2003
2001 Sekai no Pawaa Spotto
   The Power Spots in the World
     Released 2001
     Published by Voice Japan
     ISBN4-89976-016-7
May 2000 Sugao no Australia
Black and white documentary exhibition of images taken in the state of New South Wales between 1995 - 2000.
1999 Shelter From The Storm
     Siobhán McHugh
     Allen & Unwin: 1999
1997 Life... & other great things
     Alt espresso bar, Sydney
 
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