New piece from Bruno Neiva and Vive les pill from Jen Staggs

[Marie Wintzer]

I am very happy to hear from Bruno again. This new piece he sent me is very much in the line of his work, exploring textures, shapes, layers, soft tones. He is another aficionado and very successful user of the Re- concept. I hope this is a sign that he is returning to mail art? Bruno, thank you very much, you will soon get something from me.

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It's always good to be updated on what is going on on the other side of the Pacific Ocean :-)) And with a great lino print by Jen, even better! Great work, Jen, the linos have no secret for you, I can tell. Thank you for sending!

[De Villo Sloan]

Babs, by all means jump in! This is great!

 

No friends of pomo theory here actually. Asemics is a term Cheryl Penn & I made up because we thought asemic writing was too limiting. Now if you search Asemic Writing, you will find a lot. Or there is the IUOMA group:

 

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/group/asemicwritingformailartists

 

True, there's some "shop talk" here about asemic writing, but lots of people who didn't know about it jumped right into the Asemics 16 collaborative mail-art book project - with astounding results. So no worries! No fears! Again, just jump in.

 

 

[De Villo Sloan]

Babs, in the U.S. we've recently had, yet again. another "national debate" about access to birth control. The timing of Jen Staggs' work - that I think stands on its own any way - could certainly lead you to think it was on her mind. She's not just pill-fering images.

 

Yes, Marie, that was part of the ponderous discussions. John Bennett posted that picture of three broken pieces of wood on a slab of cement that sent us all, already perplexed, into hyper-perplexity. You do see similar examples of Bruno's work and the work of others posted on various asemic blogs. It is another way to think about asemics.

 

With asemics you're kinda shooting for a work that is meaningless, so it's hard to get political, I would think.

[Marie Wintzer]

Hello genkis. I remember rather heated debates about asemics back in the days of asemic 16. I don't want to go back there, but... DVS, I don't see a sign of asemic in this piece. But this is only IMVHO, of course. I always thought that asemic was about asemic writing, and I don't see any of this here. Ok, I shut up now :-))

[De Villo Sloan]

I meant to add: I know from Asemics 16 that Bruno has a very complicated and developed view of asemic writing. He did work similar to this that he considers asemic & in addition to asemic symbols you can find in the material, I think he thinks very much about the arrangement of materials as it relates to syntax and that words begin to take on larger meaning in relation to each other, so I think it's about the relationships in the material - highly conceptual, but I think I've started to understand where he is going with it.

[De Villo Sloan]

Katerina posted a Bruno classic. I think he considers everything very carefully. But that is really anti-art. That is so close to some found material that it's tough to distinguish.

[Marie Wintzer]

Thank you for your comments everyone! And the hijack :-) Glue seems to be a new material in Bruno's work? I like that scattered red lot.

[Carina]

Stylish blog, Marie! The works looks uncomplicated and direct. It appeals to me very much ...

[De Villo Sloan]

I'm not sure about the "m" words either. I forgot that Neil Gordon has brought us up Trashemics. With Bruno, I think it's just a wide range of material. You never know what he'll using, ranging from art materials to trash.

 

I do like Jen Staggs' piece a lot, so I'll post it too.

[Marie Wintzer]

Thanks DVS. I will never know whether it is minimal, minimalist, or minimalistic... that word just doesn't want to sit. Maybe Bruno is doing asemic aesthetrashpo?

Looking forward to your blog with Jen's piece, even after this mini-scoop :-)) a bit of competition is always good, I reckon.

[De Villo Sloan]

Nice blog. I am really happy to see Bruno's work again. I think what he sent you is especially nice & minimalist. He does have a talent for locating textures & placement of material. I had a chance to really learn about what he's doing in Asemics 16, and I take him very seriously. It would be easy to say Bruno is doing asemic trashpo, but it's way more aesthetic than that actually. He could possibly even have MinXus tendencies.

 

You scooped me on the Jen Staggs piece! I think it's great & had it all lined up to blog. This getting almost competitive.