Welcome to Shako Cup // Cup

"SHAKO CUP is an artist edition/unconventional publication for Cindy Mochizuki’s project Shako Club, produced in collaboration with Tonari Gumi — a long-standing organization serving primarily Japanese-language speaking elders — in the summer of 2015. Drawing from the project’s focus on food, wellness and the social life of the kitchen, Shako Cup serves as both a publication and an object for flavourful contemplation." -- Publisher's website

kanashibari, shadow archive

kanashibari, shadow archive is an interactive website and a sculptural, drawing and light installation that examines the impossibilities and possibilities that exist within articulating and archiving traumatic, collective and personal memories. Both works echo already existing contemporary forms of the archive and the memorial as a means to understand and question the absences within "history." Each form examines our desires to replace the absences of history with manifestations of material culture. Both projects are equally important components and thus mutually interdependent. Online viewers who visit the virtual "archive" activate the installation by triggering a small light. The illuminated drawings appear from the darkness as a \u27trace\u27 of what is barely invisible and constantly disappearing within the attempts to articulate the memory of historical traumatic events. The website continues to exist on the web, while the installation\u27s temporal and spatial manifestation is now a \u27memory\u27 for audiences who experienced the work

Rock, Paper, Scissors : K is for Kayashima

"Documenting the 4 year process of the multi-media project Rock, Paper, Scissors curated by Makiko Hara produced through the residency AIR 475. A project that considers 'callings' and transpacific movements through time, this book looks at the 'backend' of the processes that consider early Japanese migration to B.C's Gulf Islands from Yonago, Tottori-ken. The voice of K (the narrator of Rock, Paper, Scissors) guides the book through fiction, drawings, ephemera and essay and drawing contributions by Alexander Ginnan, Makiko Hara, Toshiaki Ishikura, Elizabeth MacKenzie, Kirsten Emiko McAllister and Cindy Mochizuki. " -- Distributor's website

Helen Pitt Triennial Awards Exhibition 2001

The catalogue for the Helen Pitt Triennial Awards exhibition for the years 1999-2001 features the work of nineteen emerging artists who received the award upon graduation from a British Columbian art school. Each artist has a brief text describing the work. The prefacers comment on the origin and evolution of the awards. List of award recipients and runners-up (1999-2001). Brief biographical notes. 1 bibl. ref

Other Places : Reflections on Media Arts in Canada

"Other Places: Reflections on Media Arts in Canada is a ground-breaking book that documents the historical and contemporary contributions that First Peoples, racialized, differently abled, and LGBTQ artists and administrators have made to the media arts in Canada. This collection of texts and artist portfolios is meant to serve as a foundational resource for artists, curators, and educators who are interested in parsing out the political concerns and thematic complexities that arise from/within moving image practices that incorporate a broad spectrum of intersectional identity-based issues. Instead of an anti-canonic text, this project maps an alternate set of discourses, practices and views across the field since the 1970s." -- p. [4] of cover