Asemic Writing for Mail-Artists

I did another GAsemics piece for Kerri Pullo. I guess the concept is an asemic gas explosion, or the agents of TOXIS trying to put out the asemic flame or some such thing:

Fantastic DVS! Thank you!

Watercolours on black paper and crayon and a very strong Ladies Hair Spray;

HOTEL HAIR SALON

Watercolours, inks on black paper and crayon and a very strong Ladies Hair Spray;

HOTEL AT NR 70, Bennett Avenue in Ohio

Hair spray!  wonderful!

john

I hope Catherine agrees, John! (hihi)

More crazy stuff: MATH ASEMICS

MAYDAY ASEMICS

FLUXUS BAR CODE

collaboration between Guido Vermeulen (Belgium), Eric Bensidon (France), Zois Elizabeth (USA) & Ben Benini (USA)

Guido, great stuff! ,Love the asemic bar code too!

I'm loving these asemic collabs especially.

ASEMICS OF A BUBBLE BLOWER,

 ATC for Elaine Sachs

MENHIR conversations, between vispo and asemics, postcard from Robert Varlez, Belgium

Back of bullet-ridden "Keep Out" sign from Lynn Radford: 

detail of a colonial painting of the Cuzco School

Thanks for posting the Cuzco School piece JMB. That has to be, what? Peru? Inca roots? 

It illustrates something that came up here before: You can find examples of asemic writing embedded within conventional art and literature. I used an example in one of the Asemics 16 intros of Antonin Artaud describing indecipherable languages inscribed across a landscape in Mexico. In Romanticism, you frequently find references to indecipherable languages.

Another overwhelming project! Try to collect these examples from the past & put them together somewhere.

Also, I blogged some work I received from group member Christopher Skinner - asemic object and-or haptic poetry

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/received-fluxkit-bagis...

It's from a colonial painting in the Museo Garcilaso in Cuzco, Peru.  there was quite a lot of art activity there, and a particularly ornate style, in the 16th & 17th centuries.  the artists were mostly criollos; a few had indigenous ancestry.  the art of this type had indigenous references and themes at times, but was very much made from the point of view of the spanish conquerors.  some of it is amazing beautiful, nonetheless.

New large painting THE SUICIDE OF WORDS

Eduardo Cardoso sent me two minimalist-asemic poems in a batch of stuff. He uses a really interesting technique, and the are beautiful poems, I think. I blogged it at M-L for now:

http://minxuslynxus2.wordpress.com/2012/09/02/minxus-mail-mr-eduard...

Whoa! Guido! You are the "Jackson Pollack" of Asemics!!!

Another work to make fun of  the Tampa convention:

The Republicans have decared war on Asemics, what’s next?!

Collage with painted fragment

Not far from the truth, Guido. During the election, the (far) Right has started a crusade against Postmodernism as some sort of ideology that is guiding Obama.

I have not idea why they have targeted Pomo - a movement that's been dead for years and is in the Wax Museum.

The new French philosophers will be pleased DVS! At least some ass holes take them seriously!

Could have posted the following image on Trashpo but decided not 2. 

Found a book on the street 2day: an instruction book on music for children age 12-13. These pages are almost like Fluxus musical score sheets but are not. It is the coded language for wind instruments like the flute, the hoboe, the bassoon.

Amazing stuff if you ask me; pages from a Haydn symphony and the Peer Gynt suite from Grieg. I am going to have so much fun with this Trash book!

From over here, Guido, it sure looks as if the glory days of pomo are past. "The literature of exhaustion" has finally exhausted itself. But it never had a huge impact.

I'm glad you posted the "Fluxus score" here in Asemics. Some John Cage scores look like that. Some of us have been fooling around with Asemic Music. It must be possible.

I shouldn't say pomo had no impact. If you consider Beckett & Burroughs as pomo - well, there were some good years.

Nice Find Guido! So Asemic, so many things can be seen as asemic from natural to "man-made". That's what i love about it I used to see faces and images in the grains of wood on my desks in school as a kid!(Pre-psychodelic days of course!)

2 poems on small rain and big rain, collages between asemcis and vispo

Nice!!!

Received from Rebecca Guyver, UK--Purple Prose

I really like the spontaneity here. Thanks, Rebecca!

Edinburgh Asemics

Jim Leftwich & John M. Bennett

First in a series of M-L blogs about Ficus strangulensis and a project we're doing with him related to asemics that includes Empress Marie, DK & Shakespeare:

http://minxuslynxus2.wordpress.com/2012/09/09/minxus-mail-from-mr-f...

wow, das cool DVS! gd luck w/ it...!

Somehow I missed Miss Becca's stunning "Purple Prose" (great title). Asemic impressionism - totally fab. Thanks for sharing Bifidus. 

neo-concrete #1166 - GASemics (for Kerri Pullo). Always be prepared for the threat of asemic gas.

That's beautiful + a riot, DVS.

Thanks NBS. DK unleashed the Asemic Gas. Now clouds are floating around everywhere.

She would, wouldn't she. But since it's asemic, go DK go. The Maine skies are boring, no asemic gas yet.

Love it, DVS, great!!

lots of asemic gas on TV these days.................

Dada poetry and asemics machine from mail artist from the Ukraine, Lubomyr Tymkiv

http://youtu.be/PDHgDeuhVl0

One of my contributions to The 70 Project in honor of our own JMB. Many thx to C. Mehrl for including it in what is unfolding as a fascinating show. This is the "xerolage burnout" version, kind of a retro homage with randomly produced asemics:

De Villo, Love the retro "xerolage"! To this day when i go too copy something i say ..I'll go Xerox this." People look at me like-what the hell are you talking about. Great xerox Asemics!

Gracias Dharmadada Neil (just found ma from you at the po today).

Well, copier art was probably bigger than typewriter art. I think Miekal And coined "Xerolage" - Xerox Collage. And he has a historic avant press - Xeoxial (?) Editions - that printed some classics.

Now Xerox, corporate roaDKill today - like Kodak. George Eastman made up the name Kodak for his camera company. And one of his associates - Wilson somebody - made up the name Xerox for his company. I know this because I am near Rochester, NY where all of it happened.

Made up words - Kodak, Xerox - like Fluxus - a word made up by Maciunas - or Zalop and Gotij and Iuoma- Fluxus words invented by Ruud. We all need to make up words. 

Reading the Huaca

Huaca, now that's gotta be some of the coolest vispo or eco-asemics or whatever. You can't beat the archaic. Great shot JMB.

And discovered Julie Mehretu (Whitecube)

When you live on a farm and only get to the big city rarely, you run the risk of having no context!  It's a minefield.

Olease excuse me, Rebecca. Politics really shouldn't enter in. The work looks interesting.