Cindy Mochizuki

Ucluelet occupies a special place in Japanese Canadian history. Beginning in 1916-20, as Japanese Canadian fishermen were pushed out of the Fraser River salmon gillnet fishery, a large number came to the West Coast of Vancouver Island to look for new salmon trolling opportunities. The fishery was less competitive and racially charged compared to the …

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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