{"id":2653,"date":"2026-08-12T06:30:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/?p=2653"},"modified":"2026-08-12T06:42:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:42:31","slug":"electric-neon-clock-opens-at-the-art-gallery-of-mississauga-august-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/electric-neon-clock-opens-at-the-art-gallery-of-mississauga-august-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Neon Clock Opens at the Art Gallery of Mississauga August 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vce-row-container\" data-vce-boxed-width=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-row vce-row--col-gap-30 vce-row-equal-height vce-row-content--top\" id=\"el-e4d3bfb9\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-e4d3bfb9\"><div class=\"vce-row-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-col vce-col--md-auto vce-col--xs-1 vce-col--xs-last vce-col--xs-first vce-col--sm-last vce-col--sm-first vce-col--md-last vce-col--lg-last vce-col--xl-last vce-col--md-first vce-col--lg-first vce-col--xl-first\" id=\"el-a3da545f\"><div class=\"vce-col-inner\" data-vce-do-apply=\"border margin background  el-a3da545f\"><div class=\"vce-col-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\" data-vce-do-apply=\"padding el-a3da545f\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vce-row-container\" data-vce-boxed-width=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-row vce-row--col-gap-30 vce-row-equal-height vce-row-content--top\" id=\"el-52726104\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-52726104\"><div class=\"vce-row-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-col vce-col--md-auto vce-col--xs-1 vce-col--xs-last vce-col--xs-first vce-col--sm-last vce-col--sm-first vce-col--md-last vce-col--lg-last vce-col--xl-last vce-col--md-first vce-col--lg-first vce-col--xl-first\" id=\"el-b212c414\"><div class=\"vce-col-inner\" data-vce-do-apply=\"border margin background  el-b212c414\"><div class=\"vce-col-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\" data-vce-do-apply=\"padding el-b212c414\"><div class=\"vce-text-block\"><div class=\"vce-text-block-wrapper vce\" id=\"el-daf88ba2\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-daf88ba2\"><div><p><noscript><\/p>\n<style>.vce-row-container .vcv-lozad {display: none}<\/style>\n<p><\/noscript><noscript><\/p>\n<style> .wpb_animate_when_almost_visible { opacity: 1; }<\/style>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p><\/div><div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/opening-reception-asm-kobayashis-electric-neon-clock-tickets-1994571308476?aff=oddtdtcreator&amp;keep_tld=true\">Opening Reception August 15, 2-4pm<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/origami-paper-boats-with-artist-asm-kobayashi-tickets-1993150244034?aff=oddtdtcreator\">Family Origami Workshop August 15 11-1pm<\/a> , The Fountain - Celebration Square Splash Pad Mississauga, ON<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>About the exhibition Electric Neon Clock is a hybrid, immersive work by A.S.M. Kobayashi that mixes documentary, performance, and installation. Born and raised in Mississauga, and based in Toronto and New York City, Kobayashi is known for her performative projects that take deep dives into found archival material. For this exhibition, the artist turns to her own family archives, which are part of Canada\u2019s history of forcibly incarcerating and dispossessing thousands of Canadians of Japanese heritage. This project began when Kobayashi first encountered the Canadian government\u2019s WWII custodial file on her great-grandfather and subsequently discovered case files belonging to other relatives, their friends, and a wider community of displaced people of Japanese descent. These historical documents detail inventories of their homes and businesses, and include government correspondence, internal memos, and court transcripts. All adults named in the original documents have passed away, leaving their children, now seniors, as bearers of the only first-person accounts of this period. These living relatives were infants and young children at the time, making the custodial file the most enduring testimony of the artist\u2019s family during those years. Electric Neon Clock asks: How can the artist liberate forensic practices and state records to undermine their original intention and use them to reconstruct the community and families they were designed to dismantle? Relying on the custodial file as a guide, Kobayashi adapts this record into an installation and live performance detailing her family\u2019s experience. Using video, sound, archival documents, a substantial photo archive, and the innovative format of a live auction, Kobayashi welcomes audiences to delve into her family\u2019s file and join her in assessing the inventory\u2019s value and humanizing its contents. Curated by AGM Senior Curator Shannon Anderson A.S.M. Kobayashi is an interdisciplinary artist who grew up in Mississauga and is currently based in New York City and Toronto. Her hybrid, interactive work mixes documentary and fiction through video, performance, installation, and illustration. Her video work and performances have been exhibited internationally at museums and film festivals including The Lincoln Center, GTA24, The Power Plant, Gallery TPW, Nuit Blanche, BFI London Film Festival, Jakarta International Film Festival and Damascus Video Art Festival. Her critically acclaimed performance, Say Something Bunny!, based on found audio recordings, was heralded as \u201cThe best new theater experience in town\u201d by Vogue. It was a NYTimes critics\u2019 pick, and was listed in Time Out\u2019s 2017 top ten productions and BOMB\u2019s Best of Performance in 2018. Kobayashi is a 2024 Creative Capital Awardee, a 2006 recipient of the Trinity Square Video Artistic Vision Award and a 2007 Marty Award winner. She has received grants from the Canada Council, Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and New York State Council on the Arts. She was a multi-time fellow at both Yaddo and MacDowell, was the founding art director of the documentary journal World Records from 2018-2021, and produces Special Projects at UnionDocs, Center for Documentary Art.<\/p><\/div><div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artgalleryofmississauga.com\/events\/a-s-m-kobayashi-electric-neon-clock\/\">More information here<\/a><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vce-row-container\" data-vce-boxed-width=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-row vce-row--col-gap-30 vce-row-equal-height vce-row-content--top\" id=\"el-5692f7af\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-5692f7af\"><div class=\"vce-row-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\"><div class=\"vce-col vce-col--md-auto vce-col--xs-1 vce-col--xs-last vce-col--xs-first vce-col--sm-last vce-col--sm-first vce-col--md-last vce-col--lg-last vce-col--xl-last vce-col--md-first vce-col--lg-first vce-col--xl-first\" id=\"el-670d0487\"><div class=\"vce-col-inner\" data-vce-do-apply=\"border margin background  el-670d0487\"><div class=\"vce-col-content\" data-vce-element-content=\"true\" data-vce-do-apply=\"padding el-670d0487\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening Reception August 15, 2-4pmFamily Origami Workshop August 15 11-1pm , The Fountain &#8211; Celebration Square Splash Pad Mississauga, ON&nbsp;About the exhibition Electric Neon Clock is a hybrid, immersive work by A.S.M. Kobayashi that mixes documentary, performance, and installation. Born and raised in Mississauga, and based in Toronto and New York City, Kobayashi is known&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/electric-neon-clock-opens-at-the-art-gallery-of-mississauga-august-15\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Electric Neon Clock Opens at the Art Gallery of Mississauga August 15<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist-talk","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2655,"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions\/2655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}