Dead Letter Room - Allie Tsubota novel Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst

Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst

showing the creative potential of Japanese designers

curtains and rugs

music and tenderness

In a chapter written in the style of a textbook

Dead Letter Room - Allie Tsubota novel Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische KunstDead Letter Room is a transhistorical correspondence with the late Japanese poet Hara Tamiki (19051951). Known for his slender output of prose during the pre WWII and immediate postwar periods, Hara is most popularly admired 'Summer Flowers', a short story about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which he survived. Hara becomes both a historical figure and a collaborator, as the work explores how violence, memory, and loss are shaped through historical