Asemic Writing for Mail-Artists

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Comment by De Villo Sloan on January 30, 2015 at 9:19am

Linda, I think you're doing fine.

Comment by Linda French on January 30, 2015 at 8:10am

DVS, thank you for explaining. It's more interesting than I had at first thought. Also, I have a confession to make. And it's not the first time I've done this. I thought I was being funny when I said "That's already been done." First lines of established, published novels and all. but maybe I'm not as funny as I thought. I once accused someone on the IUOMA website of being a rascal. I guess the rascal is really me. I hang my head. Again.  --Linda

Comment by De Villo Sloan on January 29, 2015 at 9:55pm

Linda, who is going to read Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" with about 85% of the words erased? And that's a con novel that has actually been published. With my proposal, a few people might at least go through and out of curiosity try to identify some of the lines. Isn't "I was born" the first sentence of a Dickens book? Great Expectations maybe.

The final result, I think, is to end up with concepts and no books, the way a Fluxus event score is only a few words or sentences, sometimes found, that describes a performance: "No Smoking." I think that's one. The audience has to decide how to perform it.

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on January 29, 2015 at 9:11pm

Yes, but it sounds more interesting than two other conceptual books described somewhere on IUOMA (and now I can't find them).

Comment by Linda French on January 29, 2015 at 8:59pm

Who would ever read it? Wouldn't it be said "That's already been done"? Or maybe that's the concept.  --Linda

Comment by De Villo Sloan on January 29, 2015 at 6:44pm

A conceptual novel composed of first sentences from thousands of novels already published.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on January 23, 2015 at 3:16pm

I received and wrote a review of a book by a former member of our group: Bruno Neiva in Spain. Bruno was involved during the book projects and helped make those theoretical discussions very interesting. He is quite the visual poet these days, although this is a book of conventional poems:

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/a-review-of-dough-by-b...

Comment by De Villo Sloan on January 23, 2015 at 3:01pm

It's a strange phenomena, NBS. Will one of these things break out and become very popular/a big seller? That is what usually defines "movements." "On the Road put the Beats on the map. I don't know. As we've been discussing, literacy has changed.

Vispo and asemics are included with conceptual writing these days. But I see a book of asemics as being different (and more interesting) than someone re-typing (re-typing is a big thing too) "Catcher in the Rye" and adding new typos.

These things do relate to asemics.

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on January 23, 2015 at 1:23am

Sounds like nowhere.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on January 22, 2015 at 11:46pm

To say that dozens of conceptual novels are now being published every month would be a huge underestimate. I see announcements all the time. One author erased big sections of Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" (I think it was) and issued it as a book s/he wrote. Someone else alphabetized all the words in a de sade novel (I think the 1000 Days of Sodom) and issued it as book. I don't know where all of this is going.

I think asemic books are likely considered part of this.

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