Asemic Writing for Mail-Artists

BIRD AND FEATHERS ASEMICS, collage

I did a piece using Kerri Pullo's "GAsemics" as a foundation, so I guess you could call it a collab with me & Kerri. I think it captures what the experience of asemic gas would be, if there were such a thing:

Wow, great stuff- Gas-amenics coll-ab is fab! Johns Urban-asemics! and Guido just keeps the hits coming with his Bird and feather piece=Very inspiring!

I love it DVS!!! Fantastic!

you look different. well, you are sitting on my head.

HOTEL FLUXUS, collaboration with Eric Bensidon (France) who made the artistamps

E.T. ASEMICS, fusion of painting and collage

It is a wonder to visit this stream!

Kerri, that's a gorgeous piece! Could be your best yet, maybe.

Guido, "Hotel Fluxus" - the concept alone is a treasure and the work - superb. Like windows?

JMB, belated ty why for that great piece you posted too.

I read on Fluxlist Europe that "The Last Vispo Anthology 1998-2008" has (finally) been published. Nico Vassilikas & Crag Hill have been working on that forever. A LOT of IUOMA folks included such as JMB, Jesus Jim, Litsa Spathi, D-B C and more:

http://fluxlisteurope.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-last-vispo-anthology...

So the last vispo anthology - covering a decade of global vispo. I am looking at the work here and thinking: When do we see The First Asemics Anthology? We are seeing just tremendous asemics coming out now, and I'm thinking, is there a way to start gathering all this work somewhere? Just thinking out loud, in silence.

Personal note: During my spotty, off-on involvement in mail-art, Crag Hill is one of those figures who had a real personal impact. His publication, Score, was for a long time one of THE places (IMHO) to find vispo. So I'm glad he was able to complete the monumental anthology. 

At the door of HOTEL «Stop in between»

Hello, this is my first post to this group since joining. It is only in recent years that I have become aware of the term asemics and realised that I had been doing it for quite some time without knowing what it was I was doing. Indeed, I thought I was just a bit odd and did not tell or show anybody, but then stumbled upon others exploring similar paths on the internet and there was even a name for it!

I am a graphic designer and educator, and I am naturally fascinated and frustrated by anything and everything related to lettering and writing systems, which has inevitably had an effect upon my personal work, much of which is word-based, typographic or asemic. This has, of course, spilled over into mail art (joined July 2012) and been the impetus behind several of my mail art editions.

Although not mail art, I would like to share some of my other work with you here
as I think you may appreciate it. Please let me know your thoughts.

Thanks,

Christopher

Beautiful work Christopher, you can also add the term VISPO (visual poetry) to your site. It has a long, a very long tradition !

Here is a painting I made yesterday, labeled it «les écritures de la nuit, asemic translation»

You definitely can re-arrange terms to pinpoint what's going on in a particular piece: asemic vispo, concrete asemic, concrete vispo, haptic asemic vispo.....

Guido, it has just occurred to me that your work sometimes has a stained glass feel to it. Love les écritures de la nuit. I posted something on trashpo by Ashley Bryan who is a visual artist and a poet/writer. http://www.dfac.org/press/ashley_bryan.shtml -one branch of his work is stained glass pieces out of found beach glass and paper mache - he also makes amazing puppet out of found materials.  both the stained glass (although religious) and the creatures seem relevant to your work.  He has a fascinating life story and has spent time on Cranberry Island.

You see right Rebecca, stained glass is a technique I wanted to learn but outside the religious context, never found the right teacher though, then I started experimenting with how I could translate the stained glass impressions into painting and I did this verly early in my paintings, of course I have evolved, I do this now very different than in the early years (then it was crossing several lines on paper and pouring ink and watercolors on top of the lines to see what happened?

This is an early work connected with asemic signs and fragments of poetry in different tongues, main title is A BEAU PARLER QUI VIENT DU REVE (it is easy to talk when you come from a dream)> Full view and detail

This is a recent stained glass painting. Title: The stained glass window of the devil saying that all gods were tyrants. (so I turn religion upside down)

Asemics of an old wall. okay, this is also TRASHPO !

Guido's asemic trashpo not unlike John Bennett's earlier post - those look like re-enforcing bars that go in concrete - lots of iron-y there, har har.

And I am still waiting for someone to post concrete blocks or a wall or something to due the ultimate pun on asemic concrete poetry.

And people these days seem to be into the disintegration of the art object with rust and decay etc. The disintegration process of the piece Guido captured - an ongoing process of generating asemics over time - like weather-worn hieroglyphs.

A process of decay is quite beautiful, so this is mind and view shifting like all art is or should be. I know the should be is not a popular expression but like the Sex Pistols sang I DON’T CARE !!!!!!!

John rusty gate and Guidos stained glass and other works FAB!!! The pictures of the stone wall are very Wabi Sabi-natural decay, or wear and tear of and object seen as beauty!

Such great stuff here! Breath-taking!

All you Martha Stuart School of Asemic Wallpaper graduates (and drop outs). Your classes included asemic & vispo greeting cards. Put your education to use!

This JMB project is great! He has been an ever-faithful & generous member of this group! Let's show some spirit and send some of the great work that has been appearing here! Here's the M-L announcement. You can find Mehrl's original post here at IUOMA also. Asemic Shock & Awe!

http://minxuslynxus2.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/mail-art-call-join-mi...

70, what a great age! Kerri, thanks for all the asemics I received 2day; I think you posted most of them already on this group. Here are 2 stunning pieces from close friends:

Robert Varlez (also involved in mail art) and Genevieve; both pieces were published on the art group of the REMUE magazine (one of the best there is, see on FB)

First Robert’s piece

Followed by Genevieve’s photo art

My hotel series is getting wilder and wilder: hotels in desintegration. I started thinking that a war gets bad in a country when they start destroying the hotels, those of tourists and those where Western journalist hide safely to comment on the war situation because after all these little movies on Youtube are not objective!

I have always a need to scream then to the sky to scatter the windows of such hotels. Here are 2:

1) Hotel BROKEN WINDOWS

and 2) Hotel STICK OUT YOUR TONGUE!

Kerri, I am mailing you a small artist Asemics artist book with the request to alter it completely, so it will be an asemics collaboration; just scan the final results and put the images on this group, keep the booklet (NO return) OR forward to a 3d party.

Somewhere in the melange I lost my membership here???!! Cover for Zine # 4 - Town Asemics in a Mail Art World.  Anyone wishing to contribute to this Zine - 27 signed, numbered DOUBLE sided, A5 pages.  Send to me - collated Zine to participants thanks De Villo :-) XX

Thanks for posting the beautiful cover in the asemics group, Cheryl. And it is a perfect complement to JMB's piece right below - the asemic world is a town.

So we were looking for projects - well now there is this great zine with an issue devoted to asemics to contribute to!

I'd love to see some of the recent work posted here channelled your way.

Many thanks. 

Guido....Thank you! I look forward to it!

I hope we will be able to see the results of the Guido/Kerri collab as it unfolds.

Here's some, I guess, concrete asemics or maybe just trashemics:

DVS= Concrete trashSemics... " a newborns ovaries"

Cheryl, mailed 4 pages again, to be included in zine 3 or 4, as you see fit.

Asemics and collage fusion (second effort) named THE LACEMAKER, reference to an outstanding movie by Claude Goretta (1977) based on the novel by Pascal Lainé (Goncourt Price 1974), so could have put this also on Theresa’s art and lit group. I met the femail assistant of Goretta a couple of years ago during a remembrance of the Flemish author Hugo Claus because Goretta (he is Suiss) made a movie adaption of THE SORROW OF BELGIUM and nobody in my country would handle that masterpiece! (ha) but to Xplain that story would mean drowning you in Belgitude...

Beautiful Guido :-) - will contact you when the pages arrive - many thanks for your continued support X

Small fragment of a large painting

For more views and details:

http://lamusar.blogspot.be/2012/08/the-abdication-of-ebony-king-par...

http://lamusar.blogspot.be/2012/08/the-abdication-of-ebony-king-par...

Large painting around a small poem I wrote:

The ebony king abdicated

when captain nature lost its ship

& the smell of roses became

a far-away memory

painted on the walls of a hidden cave

patiently waiting on a sudden discovery

GV

August 19, 2012

SKY ASEMICS, photo shoot, thanks to the pilot of the airplane who passed above my house!

Asemics to see when you see through the leaves, so do not look at the leaves but at the gaps!

This is work from a Spanish artist I really want to SEDUCE to get into mail art: astonishing photos and paintings and poems; example:

• esta mañana
  y todas las mañanas del mundo
  escuchadme
  un día me adelantaré
  y no tendrán tiempo de alcanzarme"
  ...

  
  "this morning
  and every morning the world
  listen
  one day I'll go ahead
  and not have time to catch up "
  
  (Fotografía y prosa: Emili Bermúdez)

  Why Emily calls this prose, hell knows!

  Does anyone see how this relates to my hotel series, a-ma-zing!

A few of you are mentioned here:

http://mailart365.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/312-purple-prose.html

Wow,beautiful asemics and poetry everybody! So inspiring!!! But those "Chemicals" Guido may look nice ,but are filled with barium sulfates and other nasty stuff. The hotel series still repeats itself so well and i like the asemics in the leaves! -Kind of like the white space on the paper of a book between the words & black ink, what mysteries are inside????

A SYRIAN HOTEL

2 «stained glass» paintings:

1) Vitraille du Serpent

2) Vitraille de l’infini inachevé

John i call this one you did:"Ma Jong Runes", that's what it made me think of!

Neil, I no longer try to determine a point of origin for JMB's work. It is what it is now. I do like those pieces too. Cheryl Penn was working with clay tablets about a year ago. 

Guido's "stained glass" -excellent!

Asemics by Robert Varlez, Belgium