Takachizu (2017)
Takachizu = Treasure Map. In 2017, I opened a museum space in Little Tokyo with nothing in it. Over the following year, Little Tokyo residents brought objects of personal or communal significance from Little Tokyo to be documented and described. The space filled up and community show and tell events created spaces for intergenerational conversations about the neighborhood, it’s history of forced displacement and return, and strategies for surviving and thriving into the future. Takachizu events included screenings of home movies curated by Visual Communications, performances by Hirokazu, and community show and tells on themes of economy, food, spirituality, political history, theater, sports, housing, and aging in place.
This project was commissioned by Little Tokyo Service Center and Sustainable Little Tokyo in the service of grounding a long-term political and cultural strategy for a thriving neighborhood, one of the United States’ last remaining Japantowns in the midst of a downtown real estate boom
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