Join Akutagawa Prize winner Keiichiro Hirano and Michio Hayashi in a talk related to KYOTOGRAPHIE 2016. Hirano who is closely related to Kyoto and Hayashi who is also active as a photography critic share their unique insight on the festival. There will be booksigning after the talk. No booking required.
Photograph by Mikiya Takimoto
Keiichiro Hirano
Keiichiro Hirano is a Japanese novelist, born in Aichi prefecture in 1975 and raised in Kita-kyushu city. He graduated from the Law Department of Kyoto University. He published his first novel, L’Ecripse (日蝕), on one of the most authoritative literary magazine, Shinch? (新潮) , in 1999 and won the 120th Akutagawa Prize. Since then, he has produced many works, the translations of which are available in various languages, various countries. He published novels, such as Funeral (葬送), Ripples the Dripping Clocks Make (滴り落ちる時計達の波紋), Collapse (決壊), Dawn (ドーン), and The Only Form of Love (かたちだけの愛), and also a book of essays, Monologue (モノローグ), and interviews, Dialogue (ディアローグ). His latest works are an essay, What Is I?: From Individual to Dividual (私とは何か 「個人」から「分人」へ), and a long novel, Fill in the blanks (空白を満たしなさい).
Michio Hayashi
Professor, Sophia University, Faculty of Liberal Arts.
Ph. D. from Columbia University. Current position since 2003 specializing in art history and visual culture. Publications include Painting Dies Twice, or Never, vol.1-7 (Tokyo: Art Trace, 2003-2009), Natsuyuki Nakanishi (New York: Fergus McCaffrey Gallery, 2014), Tadaaki Kuwayama (Fellbach: Edition Axel Menges, 2014), Shisha to tomoni ikiru (To live with the dead) (Tokyo; Gendai Shokan, 2015), “Tracing the Graphic in Postwar Japanese Art,” Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde (exhibition catalogue), The Museum of Modern Art, New York: 94-119. Recently co-edited a volume of Japanese postwar art criticism, From Postwar to Postmodern: Art in Japan 1945-1989 (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2012). Co-curated the international exhibition, Cubism in Asia in 2005 (The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Singapore Art Museum).
[Fee]
Free
[Language]
Japanese