The Japanese Canadian Art & Activism Project is a multidisciplinary research project that explores the intimacies of artistic practice, community building, and memories of Japanese Canadian Incarceration. While the term Japanese Canadian (JC) is used in the title of the project, we engage with it in complicated ways –throughout the project, we have had critical discussions about the coloniality of both Japan and Canada as nation states. It is important to reflect on the limitations of linear or singular narratives of national histories by decentering the nation state, and valuing counter-narratives. The nuances of the JC experience include people of Japanese descent that have different relationships with the land beyond Incarceration and colonial borders.