Preserving memory is not simply the same as “recording” it.
It is also a process of moving back and forth between sensations before they become words, and words that come to hold meaning in relation to others.

In this talk event, we will consider how memory is spoken, preserved, and opened up to society through two different sites.

One is the riverbank of the Kamo River.
The other is a newspaper printing factory.

One is a place where sensations that have not yet become words can exist; the other is a place where words are fixed onto paper and circulate through society.
Moving between these two sites, we will reflect on what it means to “preserve memory” in our time.

Printing Stories
Thinking at a Printing Factory about the Moment Words Remain in Society

Date & Time: Friday, May 15, 18:00–19:15
Due to the factory’s operating schedule, the event will begin and end on time.
Venue: Kyoto Shimbun Printing Kumiyama Factory
1-8 Hayashi Takakuro, Kumiyama-cho, Kuse-gun, Kyoto 613-0033
Capacity: 15 participants

Based on the newspaper-format photobook THE NEWSPAPER, published in April, this talk will take place at the actual site where newspapers are printed. We will consider how words and records take physical form and circulate through society. Through the setting of the Kumiyama Factory, where newspapers are actually printed, we will look closely at the process by which words and photographs are transformed into objects, and the value that emerges through that transformation.