{"id":521,"date":"2023-09-01T20:08:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T11:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.live-art-books.jp\/lag\/?p=521"},"modified":"2026-02-05T18:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:44:18","slug":"flukes-are-no-mistake_en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.live-art-books.jp\/lag\/exhibition\/en\/flukes-are-no-mistake_en\/","title":{"rendered":"FLUKES ARE NO MISTAKES\u2014Embracing Chance Happenings for the Future of Bookmaking."},"content":{"rendered":"
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PAST EXHIBITION<\/p>\n

FLUKES ARE NO MISTAKES\u2014Embracing Chance Happenings for the Future of Bookmaking.<\/h1>\n

Friday, September 8\u2014Saturday, October 7, 2023\u3000\u2192Installation View<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Title: FLUKES ARE NO MISTAKES\u2014Embracing Chance Happenings for the Future of Bookmaking
\nPeriod: Friday, September 8\u2014Saturday, October 7, 2023
\n*Closed on Sundays, Mondays, and holidays
\nOpening Hours: 1PM\u20147PM
\nVenue: LAG (LIVE ART GALLERY) \/ 1F Daiwa Bldg., 2-4-11 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0001
\nWeb: https:\/\/www.live-art-books.jp\/lag\/
\nInstagram: @lag-liveartgallery
\nMail: infolag@daishinsha.jp\u3000
\nSupported by Tara Books, Yosuke Fujiki Van Gogh Co., Ltd., and KAILAS (Kodai Matsuoka\/Natsuko Nose)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Special Reopening Exhibition @ LAG (LIVE ART GALLERY)<\/h3>\n

We are pleased to inform you about our special exhibition \u201cTara Books (Chennai, South India) x Live Art Books Collaboration Project: FLUKES ARE NO MISTAKES\u2014Embracing Chance Happenings for the Future of Bookmaking.\u201d<\/p>\n

LAG (Live Art Gallery) is celebrating its reopening at Jingumae and is holding a special exhibition, FLUKES ARE NO MISTAKES\u2014Embracing Chance Happenings for the Future of Bookmaking, introducing a short film and an original book produced through collaboration with Tara Books, a Chennai-based publishing office that is often described as a miracle.
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\nTara Books handles all bookmaking processes, from papermaking and printing to binding, by hand. Their beautiful picture books and visual books are highly acclaimed worldwide and have won major international awards, such as the 2008 Ragazzi New Horizons Award at the Bologna Children\u2019s Book Fair in Italy. <\/p>\n

This project focuses on the \u201cmistakes\u201d of the internationally acclaimed Tara Books and produces a short film, FLUKES ARE NO MISTAKE, under the direction of Arun Wolf. In addition, an original book based on the film will be exhibited and sold at the gallery. The book further explores \u201cmistakes,\u201d a main theme of the film, through interviews and contributing texts. In Tara Books\u2019 book-making process, what kind of mistakes have they experienced, and how have they produced ideas from them? Using the unique institutional culture of Tara Books as a guide and the dialogue between Tara Books and Live Art Books, a Japanese art book publisher, we contemplate the future of bookmaking. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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About the Newly Published Book<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

We published a collaborative book between Tara Books and Live Art Books on the theme of the short film featured in the exhibition.
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FLUKES ARE NO MISTAKES\u2014Embracing Chance Happenings for the Future of Bookmaking<\/h3>\n

Specification: variant on A5 size\/casebound special binding using original fluke paper (each book has a different cover)\/104 pages (32 full-color and 72 bicolor pages)\/\u00a53,600 (w\/o tax)\/published on September 8, 2023<\/p>\n

Designer: Masakazu Onishi\/Editor: Hiroshi Sakurai\/Catalog translator: Fumiwo Iwamoto\/Contributing text: Yoshiyuki Kawamura (Live Art Books), Chinatsu Shimizu (PUMPQUAKES)\/Interviewee: Yosuke Fujiki (Yosuke Fujiki Van Gogh Co., Ltd.), KAILAS (Kodai Matsuoka, Natsuko Nose)\/Interviewer: Chinatsu Shimizu (PUMPQUAKES)<\/p><\/div>\n

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EVENT<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

Gita Wolf, the director, and Arun Wolf, a film director from Tara Books, will join us for the opening of the exhibition.<\/p>\n

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FLUKES ARE NO MISTAKE Film Screening and Roundtable Discussion<\/h3>\n

Venue: LAG (LIVE ART GALLERY)
\nDate: 3 PM\u20145 PM on Saturday, September 9, 2023
\nPrice: \u00a51,000 (capacity: 50 people\/reservations required)
\nGuest speakers: Gita Wolf and Arun Wolf (Tara Books), Kodai Matsuoka and Natsuko Nose (KAILAS), and Yosuke Fujiki (Yosuke Fujiki Van Gogh Co., Ltd.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Profile of Guest Speakers<\/h4>\n
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Gita Wolf<\/b>
\nPublisher, Director of Tara Books
\nBorn in Kolkata, India, in 1956<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Arun Wolf<\/b>
\nFilm Director, Tara Books
\nBorn in F\u00fcrth, Germany, in 1986<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Yosuke Fujiki<\/b>
\nCurator\/Yosuke Fujiki Van Gogh Co., Ltd.
\nOrganizes various artists through exhibitions at public museums and other art institutions, besides a year-round exhibition at \u201cRoll\u201d (Iidabashi, Tokyo) that opened in July 2021. Also manages a fashion project, \u201c27.\u201d https:\/\/yf-vg.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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KAILAS (Kodai Matsuoka and Natsuko Nose)<\/b>
\nA unit of editor, writer, and photographer specializing in planning and producing travel books, magazines, and events. Recent books include Mochi-kaeritai India (India to Bring Back Home; Seibundo-Shinkosha) and Tara Books: Indo no Chiisana Shuppansha, Massugu ni Hon wo Tsukuru (Tara Books: A Small Publishing Company in India Makes Books Honestly; Genkosha).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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