22 June, 8 July 2016
Location: P3 art and environment/ P3 Project Space
On October 24, 2015, a talk event with Chihiro Minato and Takashi Serizawa took place under the title “Spaceship of Words as Media – Communication of Printed Materials and Thoughts.” Rather surprisingly, this was the first ever conversation between the two participants. Based on the presumption that print media may work like “spaceships” that carry of all sorts of ideas, they exchanged stories about their respective encounters with media that entirely changed their views.
Half a year later, Serizawa received a letter from Minato. “Why don’t we build a spaceship together? What do you think?” A strangely timed proposal indeed. What followed was a flight into the great unknown…
These two talk events, for which both participants brought along books that they had read up to that point, were occasions to discuss the meaning of printed matter in this day and age, and what exactly books are in the first place. “It’s a new kind of situation that’ll surely produce some new kinds of methods.” The talk sessions were planned with the desire to address once again, slowly and carefully, the supposedly written-off topic of books and the publishing industry at large, and to use them as launching pads into our adventure of building our own spaceship.
Organized by: ABI+P3