Similarly to the U.S., Canada forcibly incarcerated and dispossessed thousands of Canadian citizens of Japanese heritage, relocating them to internment camps, or in the case of Kobayashi’s family, a sugar beet work farm in the Canadian Prairies. After accessing the 119 page custodial file of her great-grandfather, Kobayashi discovered the case files of her relatives, their friends, and a wider community of displaced people of Japanese descent. These historical documents detail inventories of their homes and fishing business, contain government correspondence, internal memos, and court transcripts hastily recorded during the 1948 inquiry into war mismanagement known as the Bird Commission. All adults named in the original documents have died, leaving their now elderly children as the only first-person accounts of this period. Their old age has blurred childhood memories, leaving the custodial file as the most enduring testimony of Kobayashi’s family from this period. 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 her family’s custodial file as a guide, Kobayashi will adapt this textual record into a feature length live documentary detailing her family’s experience. Using video, sound, intimate family interviews and performances, a substantial photo archive, and the innovative format of a live auction, Kobayashi welcomes audiences to delve into her family’s file, encouraging participation in accessing the inventory’s value to interprete and humanize its contents.