Asemic Writing for Mail-Artists

Comment

Comment by Carien van Hest on September 9, 2020 at 8:34pm

My first asemic poem. It made me feel frivolous.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 6, 2020 at 4:58pm

I've done some collabs (Asemic Front, after all, is about collabs) w/ the Princess Olivia Mooncake work shared in our group thanks to Borderline Grafix.

https://asemicfront2.blogspot.com/2020/09/asemic-visual-poetry-coll...

Comment by Maxima Strange on September 6, 2020 at 3:00am

Thank you, De Villo Sloan. 

Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 6, 2020 at 2:51am

I feel like Maxima Strange (Ohio, USA) has been in the group forever, but actually she is very new. And here is her first appearance on Asemic Front 2 with some gothic asemics! Many thanks. And of course folks know there is no limit to the amount of material you can submit to Asemic Front. 

https://asemicfront2.blogspot.com/2020/09/gothic-asemics-by-maxima-...

Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 5, 2020 at 10:49pm

Mail Art Martha! We have fruitfully discoursed upon Trashpo as well.

Wonderful observation: The Nothingness to which Buddhists aspire is similar to the aim of the asemicist (asemic writer).

Otherwise, Dharma (I understand to be the spiritual realm) appears in Beat writing. Kerouac's "Dharma Bums" is notable. Ginsberg writes of "Dharma poetics." The jump to the asemic is easy.

Also I would note asemic writing probably in part is derived from automatic or "spirit writing" where the medium is recording messages from "the other side," which involve non-recognizable or only partially recognizable language.

Thx for deepening the discussion, MAM.

Comment by Mail Art Martha on September 5, 2020 at 8:20pm

Dharma Asemics? no sense, nonsense, all vey Zen, and you say you have no particular affinity with the Buddha, DVS.

Comment by chris wells on September 5, 2020 at 3:46pm

Thank you so much, DVS! I'm glad to be getting back into mail art & visiting IUOMA after a (too long) break.

Comment by Maxima Strange on September 5, 2020 at 2:44am

De Villo, you made me smile. 

Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 5, 2020 at 2:04am

Oh & in my trembling, unsteady hands I hold a large envelope received from none other than Maxima Strange! Just picked it up at the PO this afternoon.

The piece is as yet unopened. What can it be?

We shall see!

Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 5, 2020 at 2:01am

How could I not jump at a piece by Chris Wells (Ohio, USA) shared specifically with our group? So I have that saved for posterity at AF2. Many thanks, Chris, for work of such relevance to recent AF directions:

https://asemicfront2.blogspot.com/2020/09/new-asemic-vispo-by-chris...

Also thanks to Chris & the endorsement of Maxima Strange concerning Robert Walser. This is where the group can be so helpful.

Thanks as ever to Borderline Grafix (Texas, USA) & especially for FAB work by the mysterious Princess Olivia Mooncake. 

Great stuff here these days! Many thanks & I am moving it all toward the Asemic Front call (which will continue at least through the remainder of 2020 and then we'll assess).

• ‹ Previous
• 1
• …
• 17
• 18
• 19
• 20
• 21
• …
• 380
• Next ›
• Page