Asemic Writing for Mail-Artists

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Comment by John M. Bennett on March 21, 2011 at 12:54pm

Comment by De Villo Sloan on March 21, 2011 at 11:42am

Amazon59 mailed me this beautiful asemic piece. (she posted it further down the stream, but I thought I'd bring it up again.) It's a stunner when you see the real thing. I hope people in the group are willing to exchange asemic mail-art with each other as well as post scans. I have received a great piece from Sue Bowen too.

Comment by cheryl penn on March 18, 2011 at 11:09pm

O yes - and - not quite on topic,but I like it none the less

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes" Marcel Proust.

Comment by cheryl penn on March 18, 2011 at 10:59pm

Bruno  - fantastic links thanks - The last image (Fernando) - great - I see the hand and the mind of the artist at work in the landscape - it looks symbiotic - thankyou. De Villo - yes, rethinking but right now, not too much shifting ;-)

Comment by De Villo Sloan on March 18, 2011 at 2:08am

OK Cheryl, you're re-thinking asemics. I'll be interested to hear. I know it's this trashpo thing - I'm not lobbying for asemic trashpo. You know, I've abused that term so badly Jim Leftwich would put a hit on me if he knew, or maybe he does. I don't know. But I'm going to have to do a trashpo position paper and people can do whatever, trash it probably. Geez, does anyone have any new work?

Comment by De Villo Sloan on March 18, 2011 at 2:00am

The :found art" thing is yet another issue. Some of us are trying to find our individual positions on that front. Cheryl and I are going to have to - we are going to have to work that out somewhere because we do a lot projects together.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on March 18, 2011 at 1:57am

Bruno, seriously, thank you. I thought what you wrote was excellent. You framed things around materiality.

This medium will be difficult for some of the discussions that get more abstract. We will have to do our best.

I think Bruno broadened the field as well as John Bennett. Most of us were thinking of asemics as strictly writing on the page.

We have to remember we have the haptic poetry group here. We are exploring the notion of three-dimensional poetry, as strange as that might sound - or call it object poetry - Ray Johnson did that. Something like sculpture establishes the concept.

There is a broader definition of what a poem might be. So you could have haptic-asemic work. Cheryl, your clay tablets are in this territory.

Let's just remember we are dealing with an expanded definition of poetry here, at least some people are.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on March 17, 2011 at 11:45pm

You think you are?

Comment by cheryl penn on March 17, 2011 at 11:05pm

Bruno - good luck with the exhibition - excellent! No, will not forget you are Portuguese :-) A collective of asemic works - also sounds great - will be thinking about that for next year.  Marcela - you do GREAT!!! DVS - you think, therefore you are - its part of your abiding charm :-)

Comment by Marcela Peral on March 16, 2011 at 3:42pm

Great discussion!!! I´ll must re-think about asemic... I´m learning a lot!!! Thank you guys... I´m sorry my english is not good enough to put in words some ideas... I must think a lot before writting an sometimes must look for the dictionary :(

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