Multimedia performance (30 minutes), 2017

Compass is a multi-media performance that incorporates live-animation, ephemera and found media sources to tell a series of short stories based on the concept of directions, choices and paths that are forced upon us through the impact and effects of war.  The performance mixes historic material and handmade props, sets and puppets that get used in the live performance.  Compass is a solo performance that navigates through various stages of my grandmother’s the life on a strawberry farm in Walnut Grove before WWII and the internment of Japanese Canadians, to times across the pacific in postwar Japan. This iteration of the performance was presented by Cinevolution Media Arts as part of Your Kontinent and Richmond World Festival. This project was originally conceived as A Compass for Your Silence through a Media Art and Performance Series called Bearing Witness, commissioned by Media Net in Victoria, B.C. 

Featuring Sound Design by Nancy Tam, Lighting James Proudfoot, Technical Assistance Asa Mori, Production Assistant Cherry Wen Wen Lu and Set Construction by Minoru Yamamoto. 

Short Documentary on this project by Milena Salazar here. 

Photo Credit: Vandocument Ash Tanasiychuk