Cindy Mochizuki Explained

Cindy Mochizuki
Known For:Artist
Website:https://www.cindymochizuki.com/

Cindy Mochizuki (born 1976) is a multimedia Japanese Canadian artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia.[1] In her drawings, installations, performance, and video works created through community-engaged and location-specific research projects, Mochizuki explores how historical and family memories are passed down in the form of narratives, folktales, rituals and archives.[2] [3] Mochizuki's works have been exhibited in multiple countries including Japan, the United States, and Canada. Mochizuki received MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from the School For Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in 2006.[4] She received Vancouver's Mayor's Arts Award in New Media and Film in 2015[5] and the VIVA and Max Wyman awards in 2020.[6]

Background

Mochizuki's grandparents, who settled in the Fraser Valley in Langley as strawberry farmers in the early 1900s. They were uprooted during WWII and forced into Japanese Internment Camps in inner BC from 1942 to 1946.[7] After the war, her family chose to be repatriated to Japan before they subsequently returned to Canada. This migration journey became a recurring theme in Mochizuki's artistic work.

Selected projects  

Hato-bue Choir

Hato-bue Choir (2023) was a community-engaged project led by Cindy Mochizuki and guest artists at Tonari Gumi. A series of 4 artist-led workshops on breath, wellness, drawing, ceramics and performance storytelling invited participants to create their own individual "hate-bue" flutes. The hato-bue flute is a traditional Japanese Mingei collectible object that was seen as lucky talisman gifted to children for good health. [8]

Autumn Strawberry

Autumn Strawberry (Summer 2019) was a research project conducted during Mochizuki's artist residency at Surrey Art Gallery. Many Japanese Canadians, including Mochizuki's paternal grandparents, worked in Fraser Valley on strawberry farms which were confiscated by the Canadian Government during the Second World War.[9] The project resulted in a creation of two-channels animated film, which was shown in 2021.[10]

Shako Club

Shako Club (2015), or "social club," was a community-based project conducted in Mochizuki's two-months artist residency at grunt gallery, Vancouver. In collaboration with a Japanese Community Volunteer Association, Tonari Gumi, the project focused on community bonding through cooking and sharing knowledge and story; seniors made unique lunch boxes (bento) incorporating their personal stories and wellness philosophies. Other members could order those lunch boxes in exchange of gifts to seniors who made those "culinary sculptures."[11] [12]

Open Doors Project

Open Doors Project (2011) was a public art project taken place at the Powell Street Festival in 2011. Using Japanese card game, hanafuda as a visual inspiration, Mochizuki created sixteen panels as historic reference points of Japanese and Japanese Canadian people and their personal narratives. Each panel was placed each in front of a building, which used to host shops and institutions run by Japanese communities before WWII.[13]

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Other projects

Publications

K is for Kayashima: Rock, Paper, Scissors

This book was created after her research in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture in Japan, where approximately 1,500 people migrated to British Columbia, Canada between 1895 and the onset of the Pacific War. The book contains an essay by a curator, Makiko Hara.[26] [27]

Illustrations

Mochizuki's illustrations appear in West Coast Line, Front magazine, Alternatives Journal, and other illustrated books, such as Perpetual by Rita Wong and Things on the Shoreline.[28] [29]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Koganecho Bazaar 2014, Artists. www.koganecho.net. 2020-03-14.
  2. Web site: Artist Talk: Cindy Mochizuki. Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. en-CA. 2020-03-14.
  3. Web site: Insider Series: Cindy Mochizuki – BAF. en-CA. 2020-03-14.
  4. Web site: K is for Kayashima: Rock, Paper, Scissors Artspeak. en-US. 2020-03-14.
  5. Web site: Cindy MOCHIZUKI. 2017-12-18. Japanese Canadian Artists Directory. en-US. 2020-03-20.
  6. Web site: 2020-10-14 . VIVA and Max Wyman awards for 2020 go to five B.C. artists and writers . 2022-03-16 . The Georgia Straight . en.
  7. Web site: 2021-07-26 . Cindy Mochizuki's Autumn Strawberry reaps harvest of memories before Japanese Canadian internment . 2022-03-14 . The Georgia Straight . en.
  8. Web site: Hato-bue Choir . 2024-04-13 . CINDY MOCHIZUKI . en-CA.
  9. Web site: Japanese Canadian Settlers of Maple Ridge . Maple Ridge Museum. 2023-04-28.
  10. Web site: Cindy Mochizuki: Autumn Strawberry. Surrey. City of. www.surrey.ca. en-US. 2020-03-14.
  11. Web site: Shako Club. 2015-06-03. The Bulletin. en-US. 2020-03-14.
  12. Wong-Mersereau. Amelia. 2020. Cindy Mochizuki. Esse Arts + Opinions. fr. 98. 72–77. 0831-859X.
  13. 西村. 龍一. 西村. 美幸. 2014-09-26. 「呼びかけと応答」 : 日系カナダ人アーティスト、シンディ・モチズキのアート・アニメーションにおける「記憶」の表現. 国際広報メディア・観光学ジャーナル. 19. 3–20.
  14. Web site: Tides & Moons: Herring Capital . 2024-04-13 . CINDY MOCHIZUKI . en-CA.
  15. Web site: 2021-07-14 . Powell Street Festival: Artist Henry Tsang peels back hidden Japanese Canadian history in Hastings Park . 2022-03-16 . The Georgia Straight . en.
  16. Web site: 2021-06-22 . 'Invisible' Japanese-Canadian histories visible at Surrey Art Gallery this summer . 2022-03-16 . Surrey Now-Leader . en-US.
  17. Web site: 2021-07-28 . Powell Street Festival pays homage to the spirits while advancing social justice and pushing artistic envelope . 2022-03-16 . The Georgia Straight . en.
  18. Web site: Woodend . Dorothy . 2020-01-22 . Howie Tsui's Art Thrillingly Skewers Propaganda in New Art Show . 2022-03-16 . The Tyee . English.
  19. Web site: 2019-12-18 . Cindy Mochizuki: The Sakaki Tree . 2022-03-16 . Galleries West . en-ca.
  20. Web site: 2019-09-11 . Fall Arts Preview 2019 visual arts critics' picks: Striking shows to see across the region . 2022-03-16 . The Georgia Straight . en.
  21. Web site: Hato-bue Choir . 2024-04-13 . CINDY MOCHIZUKI . en-CA.
  22. Web site: 2021-02-16 . Vancouver Art Gallery opens three exhibitions running from February 20 to August 22 . 2022-03-16 . The Georgia Straight . en.
  23. Web site: 2020-12-15 . The Vancouver Art Gallery's new exhibition asks: Where do we go from here? . 2022-03-16 . The Georgia Straight . en.
  24. News: Strachan . Susie . 2020-03-20 . Mar 2020: Art brightens new BLUE bus line . en-CA . Winnipeg Free Press . 2022-03-16.
  25. Web site: Lefebvre . Charles . 2020-05-11 . The art marking Winnipeg's newest transit route . 2022-03-16 . Winnipeg . en.
  26. Web site: K is for Kayashima: Rock, Paper, Scissors Artspeak. en-US. 2020-03-14.
  27. Ginnan. Alexander. 2018-03-31. Visual Culture, Representation, and Uranihon. グローバル日本研究クラスター報告書. 1. 148–169. 11094/68061.
  28. Book: Harbour Publishing: Cindy Mochizuki. en.
  29. Book: Things on the Shoreline. en.

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