Takiguchi Shuzo 120th Anniversary Exhibition Memorial Symposium: Shuzo Takiguchi Research Group Special Meeting──Papier plié 01: Making a tableau of the hinge (like a music scale or a book......)
This year marks the 120th anniversary of the birth of Shuzo Takiguchi. To commemorate this anniversary, the Keio University Art Center, which owns a collection of Takiguchi's works, and Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, will hold a joint project. The former is a symposium, and the latter an exhibition. ( Click here for exhibition information. )
Shuzo Takiguchi (1903-1979), a poet, exhibition organizer, art critic, and plastic artist, was active in a variety of fields, producing mysterious books commonly referred to as "handmade brochure." These books are the handiwork of Takiguchi himself and do not go through the process of publishers or printers. They are composed of magazine clippings, silver paper, labels and stickers, handwritten notes, and other so-called fragments and appear to be both finished and incomplete. For Takiguchi, who regarded a "book" as "something that contains a single act (“Ararat’s boat or seeing through the small days into molasses of the sky" (1972)), and who wanted to create "a book that will never be bound or paged" ("Around the Blank Paper" (1963)), it was very important for the book to be in a temporary state.
In this symposium, we will consider the general books distributed mainly in bookstores and "handmade books" as opposites and position Takiguchi's "To and From Rrose Selavy" (1968) as an existence that oscillates between the two. Through this book, we will consider how Takiguchi thought about production and what a "book" is.
In the first part, members of the Shuzo Takiguchi Research Group will analyze "To and From Rrose Selavy." In the second part, members of the Shuzo Takiguchi Research Group will engage in a discussion centering on artists who create books not only as containers of information but also as figurative objects that should be invented together with language.
Symposium Flyer: download
Date
December 9(Sat), 2023 13:00-16:00
【Part 1】: About "To and From Rrose Selavy"|Members of the Shuzo Takiguchi Research Group (Moderator|Hitoshi Kubo(KUAC))
【Part 2】: "Handmade Brochure" and their Production|Members of the Shuzo Takiguchi Research Group (Presenter: Kanie Naha, Hiroki Yamamoto [Inu no Senaka-za], Moderator: Hitoshi Kubo), Yoshihisa Tanaka (Guest)
Venue
Keio University (Mita), East Research Building 6F G-LAB.
Audience
Open to everyone / Come and go anytime
Date
December 9(Sat), 2023 13:00-16:00
【Part 1】: About "To and From Rrose Selavy"|Members of the Shuzo Takiguchi Research Group (Moderator|Hitoshi Kubo(KUAC))
【Part 2】: "Handmade Brochure" and their Production|Members of the Shuzo Takiguchi Research Group (Presenter: Kanie Naha, Hiroki Yamamoto [Inu no Senaka-za], Moderator: Hitoshi Kubo), Yoshihisa Tanaka (Guest)
Venue
Keio University (Mita), East Research Building 6F G-LAB.
Audience
Open to everyone / Come and go anytime
Cost
Free
Lecturer/Performer
Kanie Naha(poet), Hiroki Yamamoto [Inu no Senaka-za], Yoshihisa Tanaka (guest), Hitoshi Kubo (Keio University Art Center)
Timetable
13:00-16:00
【Part 1】: About "To and From Rrose Selavy"|Members of the Shuzo Takiguchi Research Group (Moderator|Hitoshi Kubo(KUAC))
【Part 2】: "Handmade Brochure" and their Production|Members of the Shuzo Takiguchi Research Group (Presenter: Kanie Naha, Hiroki Yamamoto [Inu no Senaka-za], Moderator: Hitoshi Kubo), Yoshihisa Tanaka (Guest)
Enquiries and bookings
Keio University Art Center
03-5427-1621
Organiser(s)
Organizer: Shuzo Takiguchi Research Group (Keio University Art Center)
Click here for the KUAC's exhibition introduction page.
Click here for the exhibition page.