Asemic Writing for Mail-Artists

Even as Kerri Pullo blazes the trail of Gasemics, here is some of her new asemic writing posted on MinXus-Lynxus:

http://minxuslynxus2.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/minxus-mail-from-ms-k...

ohh, I love the safety-pins one esp.!

Claire, I'm glad you mentioned that, if you meant the paper clips. Aren't they paper clips? Kerri did magic with them. I think she wears paper clips for jewelry, and that would be like all the Punk stuff with safety pins, maybe.

I went ahead and posted her GAsemics (asemic gas) too. That was a dream in the Martha Stuart School of Asemic Wallpaper - to create asemic gas. And then asemic goggles and glasses. Dk was involved with that, I think. 

http://minxuslynxus2.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/and-then-there-was-ga...

nice! yes, i meant "paper clips." associated & cross-pollinated in me fuzzled brain no doubt...%_^

THE ASEMIC LETTER ACCORDING TO VERMEER AND VERMEULEN

Brilliant Guido! Should be in the Anti- Louvre!

ASEMICS ART CARD received from Rebecca Resinski, USA

My hotel series continues:

ASEMICS OF UN HOTEL DE PASSAGE

For those who do not master the French: a hotel de passage is a hotel where you rent rooms by the hour, so it is a hotel «Paradiso» (reference to a movie based on the plays of Feydeau)

Gasemics Series 1 no.2: Mink on Safety Island

I saw the greatest asemic minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the streets at dawn looking for an angry mink, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,

I'm confused. Am I in trouble?

Not at all, Kerri. I was looking at your work, Guido's, others posted here and thought of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" and that it is a wonder that the greatest asemic artists of our times are posting their work here.

I just wanted to reply, no Kerri, this is a beat text but DVS already put you «straight»  (hihi)

DVS-MinxBeat-Bard!!!!

 Kerri:Mink2 w/ gas mask:Nice! Love the gas theme... keep em' coming.

Guido: the UN hotel....Very existential!

Kerri needs to bust a cap & take a bus out of Squaresville & get her kicks at the Beat Hotel with the rest of us hip cats & groove to the endless moves of the gasemics.

in current terms....if you don't stop making fun of me...."Ima pop the truck on ya!"

p.s. don't sniff too much gasemics, I have heard terrible outcomes.

for the record - not making fun of you!!!! The work is great. All of it.

Guido and Neil know the old Beat lingo - it was for them. Sorry your name got morphed into it.

THanks! BUt you all know I sensitive and slllllloooooooooowwwwww! I'll remember to think asemicaly next time. Keeps from feelings in check!

*keeps my feelings in check* ..... and I can't type bc my brain is too hyper!

it's a quick ride out of Squaresville......Gasemics Series 1 no. 3 Gasemics Ginsberg.

I don't know why AG didn't wear a gasmask more often.

Probably AG was jealous of De Corso’s BOMB poem (for insiders only!), smiley

Here's something I sent Svenja Wahl - so it doesn't seem like I'm just being critic & commenting on everybody else working so hard.

Guido - I am re-reading a William Burroughs biography - where Burroughs visits Henri Michaux, so I have great moments of asemic history on my mind.

BTW, Rebecca Resinski sent me some great work too. I think she's excellent but don't know much about her.

Rebecca's piece & mine are more examples of straight asemic writing. I've been told the earlier book projects in this group with Cheryl Penn produced a lot of Asemic Visual Poetry. To me, that's more like Guido's work where you can find asemics embedded right inside recognizable images. Obviously, we're open to everything but maybe this accounts for some of the range you see.

If you didn't see the blog, Bruno Neiva sent me this. Finding asemics in crunched up waxed paper. I can see them anyway clear as day.

DVS this last one looks tasty to eat! are there any fruitsemics in there?

I was thinking about my next Gasemics and I believe it will be inspired by Bob Dylan's "Isis" it seems somehow fitting for me right now ;)

I'm tyring to.... "IsIs" is on either "Blood on the Tracks" or "Desire." I like that song. Lately I've been thinking about the Joey Gallo song, which is on one of those albums.

Yamsemics. Amazing what you can do with yams.

I mean "Isis" from Desire. .....Joey is a very good song as well. Honestly, AFTER blood on the tracks I think Desire is is best album. What is??? "IsIs" on Blood on the Tracks....is that some lingo I don't know referring to "If you see her say hello????"

oh...my impulsive mind didn't read your sentence correctly. Funny thing is there is a song called "IsIs" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

IsIs is an Egyptian Goddess. The name comes up a lot of places.

"Blood on the Tracks" and "Desire" actually represented a huge showbiz "comeback" for Dylan. Until those albums - that were more commercial than the previous - his career was slipping in a popular sense. He was not seen in public for years and was supposedly hideously disfigured in a motorcycle accident (like the Paul is dead thing). Releases like "Self-Portrait" - incredibly interesting - were incomprehensible to most. He organized the Rolling Thunder Review Tour where he appeared live (but always wore thick white makeup so no one could see his face) and that might have been one of the all-time great tours with Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Roger McGuinn, Rambling Jack Elliott, Mick Ronson, Scarlet (I think the violin player from Desire was on the tour), Allen Ginsberg and many others. I think the tour was commenced with an incantation on Jack Kerouac's grave. 

The goddess Isis is portrayed as a woman, wearing a headress shaped like a throne; sometimes she is also shown with bird's wings.
Goddess of motherhood, magic and fertility
Major cult center	Philae, Abydos
Symbol	the throne, the sun disk with cow's horns, the sycamore tree
Parents	Geb and Nut
Siblings	Osiris, Set, Horus, and Nephthys
Cons

Desire one of my Dylan faves along with blood on the tracks  and  Highway 61...Scarlet and Mick Ronson;two of my rock idols! Everytime you hear Bob ya hear something new.... "there are 136 protest singes in the world.... i consider myself a song and dance man"

DVS: Great Fruitsemics

Kerri: Tell me more about the "our school" Film and where can i get. Always been inspired by the Romi!

hey neil....as far as I know "our school" is only being distributed independently in Australia...but I have my eye out for when it may be available streaming from Sundance or somewhere online. I have not seen it myself. Just the trailers....seems fascinating! During the movie, I hope to be eating some of DVS's fruitsemics! YUM!

Nice! keep me posted!  There's a great band from Spain called "ojo's De Brujo" you may like to check out.

I shall give a listen to those 'eyes of witches!' thanks neil!

HOTEL HURRICANE, part 1 of NIGHT POEM IN 6 PARTS

see my photos for the rest

this is what happened. in asemics.

When it rains it pours asemics. 

Beautiful work Kerri!! Golden, quited and Eco-semic!

Guido- Night Poem is a beautiful series!

Is this Battle of the Titans?

Guido posts something Incredible. Kerri something more incredible... I know it's not a competition really. I am partial to that kind based in calligraphy - just a beautiful one, Kerri.

Thanks DVS! I'm just overflowing with asemics right now. I do so hope it lasts. :) If there is a battle of the titans...Guido wins hands down. Guido is a master of beauty.

There is no battle between Kerri and me, the idea alone! (yaks).

There is beauty and harmony and tension leading to new harmonies and so on.

Kerri, the piece in reds with the face is !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And better than anything I have done but that’s my appreciation of course!

Maybe Kerri and I should do some work together ; thru the mail everything is possible!

We sure could Guido!!!....the magic of mail!

We sure could use a collaborative project like the Asemics 16 books again. I'm trying to wrap up a bunch of other projects. I don't know how everyone manages to do it. I think I'll eventually propose some other grand project, as I keep coming back to asemics.

As for the present - I haven't seen a lot of collaborative asemic works, and that would be interesting. I think John Bennett, Matt Stolte, and "Jesus Jim" Leftwich have done some fantastic collabs lately. 

Don't forget to post here if there are any collabs! 

Please note Kerri Pullo's asemic paper clips are now the official group logo. I think they are much more appropriate than that moldy stuff from Project 26. As ever, thank you Kerri.

On Google, Bruno Neiva posted a link to the journal Otoliths that has some fantastic work by Matt Stolte, including a tribute to David Baptiste-Chirot. (Notice how when you start to move outside mail-art, suddenly it looks more like a "Man's World" all of a sudden? But these are great guys!). Matt's an IUOMA member, as is David.

I'm not much into journals with editors, gatekeeper's, people deciding what's good and what isn't - but Otoliths does carry vispo and asemics and seems fairly open.

http://the-otolith.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/matthew-stolte.html