Cindy Mochizuki

Join Cindy Mochizuki and Charo Neville for a conversation about Ancestral Dreams & Other Premonitions, recorded at the opening reception on April 20, 2024. V...

Award-winning multimedia artist Cindy Mochizuki joins us in studio to discuss her new film, which celebrates the life and work of the late Japanese-Canadian photographer Tamio Wakayama.

#CindyMochizuki and #HenryTsang use camera and projection technologies in unexpected ways to illuminate forgotten images and histories. In their respective s...

333 likes, 20 comments - westcoastcurated on March 20, 2024: "Cindy Mochizuki is an award-winning, Vancouver-based interdisciplinary artist and storyteller. Working within an impressive spectrum of mediums, Cindy often explores the Japanese Canadian experience, blending marginalized voices, histories and traditions with a contemporary perspective. Whether it’s via multi-media installations, audio fiction, performance, or animation, Cindy gives her audience intimate, pensive moments to consider. Her upcoming show, Ancestral Dreams & Other Premonitions...".

Experience life on local Japanese Canadian farms in the twentieth century prior to WWII with hand-painted and digital animation.

Cindy Mochizuki’s paternal grandparents once lived on a farm, growing strawberries and raspberries—before being branded as enemy aliens.

For too long the history of British Columbia was a Euro-Western settler fantasy. Among the previously unacknowledged histories to enter public

Artists use multimedia technologies to consider difficult history of Japanese Canadian internment.

Vancouver-based artist Cindy Mochizuki has made a monumental art project out of digging into her family's history.

Listen to this episode from The Work of Art on Spotify. In this episode, we listen to the Artist Talk by the "Cave to Dream" artist, Cindy Mochizuki, and freelance curator, Mariko Hara. The talk was held at the Richmond Art Gallery in November of 2019 and the exhibition was held from September 29th - November 17th, 2019 with a one-day live performance.  About the Presenters: Cindy Mochizuki creates multi-media installation, audio fiction, performance, animation, and drawings. Her works explore the manifestation of story and its relationship to site-specificity, invisible histories, archives, and memory work. Her artistic process moves back and forth between multiple sites of cultural production considering language, chance, improvisation and engaging communities. She has exhibited, performed and screened her work in Canada, US, and Asia. Exhibitions include the Frye Art Museum (Seattle, Washington), Yonago City Museum (Yonago, Japan), The New Gallery (Calgary), Hamilton Artists Inc. (Hamilton), and Koganecho Bazaar (Yokohama). In 2015, she received the Vancouver’s Mayor’s Arts Award in New Media and Film. She received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from the School For Contemporary Arts (2006) Makiko Hara is an independent curator and writer from Tokyo, Japan, based in Vancouver, BC. From 2007 to 2013, she was the Chief curator of Centre A —Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. She has worked with many visual artists on a variety of projects as an independent curator, including: Scotia Bank Nuit Blanche, (Toronto, Canada, 2009), AIR YONAGO, Tottori Geijyu Art Festival (Yonago, Japan, 2014-15),Fictive Communities Asia-Koganecho Bazaar (Yokohama, Japan, 2014), Rock Paper Scissors, and Cindy Mochizuki, (Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, Japan, 2018). Hara was appointed Guest Curator at Koganecho Bazaar 2014 and in 2017 was appointed to the Advisory on International Exchange Center, Akita University of Arts, Akita, Japan. https://www.cindymochizuki.com/

The only public gallery in Richmond, the Richmond Art Gallery (RAG) is a municipal gallery supported by the non-profit Richmond Art Gallery Association. In operation since 1980, the Gallery presents exhibitions by regional, national and international artists, maintains a permanent collection of over 400 works, and presents innovative and diverse programming for children, youth, and adults. Richmond Art Gallery is dedicated to promoting dialogue among Richmond’s diverse communities through the presentation of contemporary visual art.

Cindy Mochizuki, 雪/Snow , 2019. English-language closed captions available.Presented as part of The Pandemic is a Portal. See the exhibition here: http://www...

Michael Dylan Foster, Inviting the Uninvited Guest: Ritual, Festival, Tourism, and the Namahage of Japan, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 126, No. 501 (Summer 2013), pp. 302-334

Experience the folklore of the Namahage

Oga Peninsula in northern Japan is home to mythical, ogre-like deities called Namahage. On New Year's Eve, human personifications of Namahage descend upon villages wearing frightening masks and costumes. The head of each household welcomes them with sake and food, and in return, they stomp and roar at the entrance to exorcise evil spirits and bring good luck. Our explorer visits the village of Anzenji to gain insight into how the imagination of the ancients inspired this fearsome protector.

169 p. : 22 cm

135 pages : 20 cm

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