Asemic Writing for Mail-Artists

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Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on July 13, 2011 at 12:09am

i just hope whatever it happens to be, it's my fault! ;-D

Comment by De Villo Sloan on July 12, 2011 at 11:44pm

oh, and our comrades in the Haptic Poetry Group - some of them also asemic writers - they're doing really interesting things, only they tend to be a little more reserved than over here - DK made me post my letter of apology over when I tried to expel Cheryl from Sandpo. You missed a few things, Nancy. But I have a feeling the best is yet to come

Comment by De Villo Sloan on July 12, 2011 at 11:38pm

Fantastic post, Nancy! Maybe it's worthwhile for people how know about the long-held values of the eternal network to share, especially for the benefit of newer folks. IUOMA turns out to be a Mecca for the network and Fluxus. I couldn't believe the roster of people when I joined a year ago, and it's getting better.

On the subject of the (largely imaginary) purges and expulsions - In the "old" Fluxus, George Maciunas did attempt to run the movement as a dictatorship with expulsions, official positions etc. In the Sandpo Movement that started here last spring, the original model was sort of fascistic, in retrospect. Diane Keys remains Minister of Propaganda and she did much to eliminate those practices. These are definitely different times, and that kind of leadership just doesn't work anymore.

Again, great statement you wrote. It is a New Era!

Comment by prettylily on July 12, 2011 at 11:36pm

TY, Superhero.  Will be on the lookout.  :-)

Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on July 12, 2011 at 10:41pm

neil: i'll send you a message as soon as i code up my asemic email program!

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on July 12, 2011 at 10:21pm

It sounds like it brought up people's fundamental values here, DVS, as artists and as human beings.  The inner turmoil from something like that does last a while, or at least can be sparked easily.  It IS a battlefield out there culturally, in practically every corner, and unfortunately there's a tendency on the part of too many to engage in cyberspace road rage -- as if there aren't real human beings behind the wheel.  I'm sure this could have been and was anticipated by early internet users, but I know personally that it's a shock to have what you thought or hoped was somewhat a haven from all that invaded and trampled by residents of highly controlled communities.

 

If asemic writers from other, contentious communities can't take artistic freedom, then unfortunately there is a battle to be fought, but one can always hope it won't happen too often.  I have been here such a short time, but have seen and felt in a very strong way the supportiveness of IUOMA, certainly including your group.  Like you say, mail-art can't be as underground now as it once was, due to the internet, but I think it can at least be kept relatively free in comparison to the countless stepford-wives communities out there, if not in comparison to itself before the internet.  I have a very good feeling about it, if that means anything.  Fluxus seems to be flourishing, as far as I can tell from Cecil Touchon, whose CollageMuseum list I've been on since 2005.

 

Yes, people fearful of posting any kind of work would be a tragedy.  I could sense that belief here as soon as I arrived, but it's good to read you actually say the words!  I see nervousness about possible "rules" in some of my earlier posts or comments, because one assumes they are everywhere, but you will likely see that rapidly shrink in my communications here.

 

I'd forgotten what a vindictive character Dante was!

 

 

Comment by Neil Gordon on July 12, 2011 at 10:01pm

Its my Asemic email addr.!

Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on July 12, 2011 at 9:49pm

interesting email address, neil!

Comment by Neil Gordon on July 12, 2011 at 9:44pm

SUPER HERO! I sent you the asemic Mao-forgot >>to sign it!! WHOOPSIE!*&^%$#@@!+_:Neil Gordon

Comment by De Villo Sloan on July 12, 2011 at 9:26pm

Thanks, SH - as for true confessions: Cheryl and I started the group equally together. I ended up with this dangerous thing of these powers you have to control various aspects of the group - that's really Ruud Janssen's domain as ultimate moderator for IUOMA. And what an extraordinary job he does!!! Anyway, during the darkest hours of the Asemic Correctness Mutiny, I actually suspended Cheryl from placing comments - My only excuse is I saw all these comments I thought were really negative... So Cheryl was actually suspended from our group - the only one. But then Cheryl and I debate endlessly about issues and positions via email. And sometimes that's a good place to work these things out - privately. Cheryl and I had a serious go-around over the cultural elitist thing.Yes, the asemic group had the equivalent of a Cuban Missile Crisis. But you know - there were the Monkey Purges and the Sandpo Purges - all that was a bad idea. We learned from that too.

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