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.

Interdisciplinary artist Cindy Mochizuki awarded VIVA Award. Compass, Digital Carnival, Richmond World Festival, Richmond, BC, 2017. Multimedia performance. This October, the Vancouver-based artist...

Artful animation, scores of costumes help move between Japanese prison camp and internment trauma during World War II

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...".

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.

Japanese Canadians, or Nikkei (meaning Japanese immigrants and their descendants), are Canadians of Japanese heritage. Japanese people arrived in Canada in two ...

Thursday, February 18, 2016, 7:00 PM Access Gallery Introduced by Kimberly Phillips artists Cindy Mochizuki, Hannah Jickling, Helen Reed and Vanessa Kwan come together to present and discuss artistic collaborations with children. With questions posed by both Kim and the audience, what unfolds is an active and engaging discussion surrounding diverse questions: What is the radical potential of artists working with children? How do we understand agency and authorship in projects involving young people? How might such projects point to broader questions around the ethics of engagement in contemporary art practice, and to new (and often destabilizing) forms of interaction within the gallery and beyond? How might curators or institutions shift their practices to support a wider range of complex, generous, and attentive play, in younger communities and in a wider sense? All these and more. HANNAH JICKLING experiments with the possibilities of form, participation and meaning-making across disciplines and publics. She frequently collaborates with HELEN REED, whose artistic practice explores her interest in participatory culture, affinity groups and fantasy-based subcultures. VANESSA KWAN is an artist and curator whose current projects include Jickling and Reed's public artwork situated at Queen Alexandra Elementary School (produced by Other Sights). CINDY MOCHIZUKI is an interdisciplinary artist engaged in a wide range of projects that evoke history, memory, and the imaginary. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from the School For Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.

Featured Artist Cindy Mochizuki talks to curator Makiko Hara in this studio conversation about family, memory, identity and her piece for Digital Carnival 20...

When we are bored, the landscape appears barren, empty. But it is precisely this arid space in which the imagination can run wild, and produce whole populations of teeming, whimsical, creaturely life. Things on the Shoreline is a collaborative project initiated by Access Gallery, visual artist Cindy Mochizuki, and the students of Lord Strathcona Elementary School and the Vancouver Japanese Language School.

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...

Listen to this episode from The Imposter on Spotify. Artwork goes missing. A film hits an impasse. An artist feels stuck. They turn to fortune teller Cindy Mochizuki for guidance.   In addition to being a go-to fortune teller for artists, Cindy Mochizuki is herself an artist based in Vancouver. Her work spans from animation to sculpture, incorporating themes of history and memory. Her short films have screened around the world.   Every artist on this episode makes incredible work that you should check out. We have links on our website, canadalandshow.com/imp   Abbas Akhavan works in installation, drawing, video and performance. That work of his in The Guggenheim is called "Study for a Monument." Amy Lam is one half of Life of a Craphead, who host a livestreamed performance night called Doored. They made the movie Bugs, "a satire about bug society and its most powerful family." Walter Scott is a multi-disciplinary artist and creator of the Wendy comic books. You can hear a full interview with him on The Imposter episode 10, "Happy Lucky Accident Stories." Sojourner Truth Parsons is a painter who has exhibited work around the continent. There's a great profile of her in Canadian Art, where you can see a lot of her paintings. Nadia Belerique makes installations and works with steel. Her website looks like a xeroxed zine.   Music on this episode: That funky electronic track at the beginning of the show is "Sage" by Man Made Hill. Additional music is by Carl Didur.   The Imposter is hosted by Aliya Pabani and produced by Kevin Sexton. Follow us on on Twitter @IMPSTR / @aliyapabaniSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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/

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

169 p. : 22 cm

Experience the folklore of the Namahage

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

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

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

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