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The structure of divisional documents

Person #1 writes a sentence .
Person #2 reads person #1’s text and adds a new page to the middle of the text that links the existing words.
Person #3 reads person #2’s text and adds a new page to the middle of the text that links the existing words.
Person #4…
Person #5… A single story is created through the chain of texts.

About divisional documents Bibuncho

“Bibucho” is the name of the small books that are part of this artwork, as well as the unusual system of co-authorship through which the books are created. The stories in bibuncho are all distorted in some way, and although they can be verbose or boring, they also have a style than can pique the interest of the reader.  Anyone who has experienced how meeting someone in the present seems to affect not just the future, but also our past experiences will be familiar with the mystery of a bibuncho.  The system for creating bibuncho is not complex, but rather quite simple. To me, it has the sense of beauty or sturdiness of an equation.  Since the project began in 2008, more than 1,000 bibuncho have resulted from encounters among many people, and the number continues to grow.  Someday I want to put all the bibuncho on display and invite everyone involved, so as to create a narrative landscape too big for anyone to read. Sometimes I think it’s up to others to spread and develop bibuncho in the future, while at other times I want to keep working hard on them. 
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MIYATA Atsushi＋SASA Moe

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