TAKASHI HIRAIDE—-AIRPOST POETRY

TAKASHI HIRAIDE—-AIRPOST POETRY
BOOK DESIGN FOR ONE FROM ONE

October 4 – November 5, 2016
The Japan Foundation, Toronto

《TH_AIRPOST》is  an “Aerial Post Office” utilized by the Minimum Press which was created by Hiraide in relationship with the postal system. The author writes, creates the layout, prints, formats and does the bookbinding by himself. The literary work that is created in this way is accessed through an intermediary post office located on the web and ultimately delivered to the individual mailboxes of readers worldwide.

There is a “Book” that is both a letter and an objet d’art or a “Poem” that is both a postcard and a greeting, and these create a unique one-to-one relationship, a bridge between the reader and the author. In the same way that various life forms exist in relationship with the environment while adapting their forms to others, the creation of the singular experience of the book unfolds.

The《AIRPOST POETRY》exhibit is the first time that an overview of this experiment 《FOR ONE FROM ONE》has been presented.

Takashi Hiraide is a poet, critic and book designer. He has published books of various genres and forms from poetry to prose and from poetics of sports to criticism on arts, receiving numerous prizes. Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel Prize-winning novelist, highly praised Hiraide’s writings for providing a new direction for prose within the field of poetry. His first novel, The Guest Cat, became a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller in 2014.