Installation, 2008
Community-engaged project (Images 1-3)

Archive City is “a memory collection agency” composed of three Vancouver based artists, Lois Klassen, Cindy Mochizuki and Jaimie Robson. For this project Archive City researched and collected various facts and myths about Lulu Island, where the city of Richmond is situated. The exhibition comprised of a memory archive of stories, images, ephemera, tracings and other related research materials, as well as archival boxes which contain the memories of Richmond residents they have interviewed in the form of dioramas.

Archive City explores how memory of a place is preserved and archived. By mimicking bureaucratic procedures and presentation methods, such as creating official-looking documents and an office setting in the gallery, the group members seek to expose the processes involved in translating traces of memory into concrete documents preserved in an archive.

Archive City: Portraits of Lulu Island was originally exhibited at The Richmond Art Gallery. 

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Frozen Fictions, 2009
wooden drawer, glass slides (Images 4-5)

Archive City e-materialized memories surrounding the location of the Richmond Olympic Oval in a series of glass slides. 

Originally part of a group exhibition called 27 Drawers curated by Rob Shedden and Lisa Lipton at the Robert Street Social Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia.