I like this one a lot DVS! it somehow reminds me of my grandmother's backyard....her backyared closely, dangerously closely, bordered railroad tracks lined with seemingly never ending beautiful asemic sculpture... courtesy of Commonwealth Edison.
Then you probably saw at M-L that I deem the plastic comb calligraphy Dark wall's worst work, worse even then the mashed PB&J sandwich on the scanner bed.
BUT they do seem to have the same quality as these recent asemic inkblot experiments by Cheryl Penn, you, Guido and others. And you know that Rorschach inkblot test was a tool in classic Freudian analysis and is still considered a valid psychological test today. It all hinges around what each individual sees in the inkblots, indeed what they project on it.
So I think what you see in the work is very interesting. Only it is holding up a mirror. What you see is yourself.
it does sound like Boston....interestingly I have lived on Comm Ave! But, it is also Chicago's Electric Co.... my father worked there as an electrical engineer early '80's.
Thank you very much Fatima! Back to basics concrete poetry. Wonderful!
Now when you get into creating new symbols with overlaid letters, suggestions of syntax or different ways of thinking about linearity by the way things are structured on the page, that might be considered asemic.
DVS- Have been getting a lot of Hannah Wiener books from inter-library-loan, one even from the Naropa Institute Library! Hanah had an interesting approach to vispo and concrete at times,
You once mentioned you may have some copies of stuff she had done on some kind of mass -mailing that was popular at the time,-- if you have any copies of the stuff i would be happy to reimburse you for "Xeroxing" them for me!
@ Kerri - note how your pic of the electric plant matches the concrete work Fatima & I posted.
A lot of this kind of work - Matt Stolte achieves this a lot - seems industrial & metalloid. The repetition & regularity probably has something to do with it.
In contrast, asemicists like Cheryl Penn seem to be developing something that is far more organic - given context by some earlier discussions of bio-poetry and Michael Mc Clure (using DNA models in some of his own work) made the strange but intriguing prediction poems in the future will evolve into living organisms. Now some poems I would be afraid to see as living organisms, but an interesting idea from the fella who penned: "Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz."
Neil, yeah I do have Hannah Weiner manuscripts that were originally mimeoed or photocopied for the network. Gotta dig deep into the archives but will do my best.
You know, a lot what she did had a component of concrete or visual poetry now that you mention it. (I would be tempted to keep that Naropa stamped copy.)
It was great for her that she could practically go mainstream and do those books with good publishers.
When Silliman did his "In the American Tree" anthology he included a bunch of folks whom he considered near predecessors of Langpo, like Bern Porter, Jackson MacLow, and Hannah Weiner - that definitely brought her from the underground and into a bigger field, which can be good and bad. I never thought she was really Langpo, maybe the opposite in fact, but I've always loved her work.
When i saw the Naropa stamp i almost fell out of my Chair, i may copy it to use in mail art! If you can dig stuff up, no rush!& like i said i will reimburse for the copies...
i will check w/ the library for the Silliman bk., Ben Porter, and Mac Low!
Thanks, you have an encyclopedic knowledge of this material, its very helpful DVS!
Silliman's anthology In the American Tree (I think originally published by the Poetry Foundation in Orono, Maine) was one of the things that contributed to the rise of Langpo.
It was a smaller scale version of what Don Allen achieved with the epic New American Poetry in 1960 and the Butterick/Allen retread in the 80s called the Postmoderns or something.
How the most obscure poets on the planet like Olson and Spicer became icons - well that was a feat.
Around 1992 the idea started of personal encounters between networkers all over the globe, A KIND OF MAIL ART TRAVELING. A congress happened each time mail artists met each other! Contested by some in the network (no personal meetings, see the statements of Keith Bates in the UK) many joined this movement of personal and collective encounters.
My first publication to document a personal effort happened in 1994, when I traveled to Scotland. Second traveling to Scotland happened in 1996 in the company of Marilyn Dammann, a networker from the USA with Scottish and Irish roots.
Second edition of the book (61-120) published in 1995 by Lingua & Littera, Liza Leyla, Belgium.
PART 1 of this book with automatic drawings, cut up poems, glue painting and photo of the standing stones of Callanish at the isle of Lewis and Harris... (Western Hebrids)
Second part of my artist book publication Greetings from Lewis & Harris, 1994, second edition in 1995 (61-120) by Lingua & Littera, Liza Leyla, Belgium
containing automatic drawings by Jacques Bernimolin, a poet and pharmacist who followed the experiments of Henri Michaux and Aldous Huxley (Connaissance par les gouffres / Gates of perception). Next to his amazing vispo work he became a rap poet at an elderly age. After he died in a retirement home an art commando of friends raided the place to save his artistic heritage
from destruction. His works are scattered between Belgium and France and in the hands of close friends...
IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE in the mailartinternationale blog please mail me your email address so I can invite you as contributor.
Reserves: I want people who have an historic point of view on mail art and are able to surpass the sometimes silly contradictions of the present.
People like Guy Bleus, Ruud Janssen, Geert De Decker, John Held Jr, Clemente Padin, Wilfried Nold, Henning Mittendorf, Gianni Simone, Craig Saper, Vittore Baroni and others.
If you think you can match them, please email me at signsstones@yahoo.com
Fatime, I agree the old typewriters are very hard to work with compared to any sort of word processing or photoshop to make concrete poetry. Cheryl Penn, for one, still uses a typewriter for some things. Folks might remember her Zalop concerto that used a standard typewriter:
BTW Guido and Kerri, I hung your beautiful asemics book (+ the envelope and other contents from Guido) at the Forest Cafe exhibition (memories are made of this). I did it with trepidation as one can't help but worry that some fan might not be able to resist slipping it in their pocket, but when I checked on Monday it still looked great.
I.m guest-editing the blog TRUCK this month - http://halvard-johnson.blogspot.com/ - so send me some stuff, text/visuals/whatever, for consideration. visual as jpgs please. send to bennettjohnm@gmail.com, and put TRUCK at head of subject field.
Tragic news: just got the mail art back from The Forest and the one thing that I've noticed that is missing is the Pullo/Vermeulen collab. The first thing I did this morning was to email, hoping it turns up. I am grief stricken. And if it isn't somewhere safe waiting to be mailed back to me, I hope someone really special is enjoying it.
De Villo Sloan
Fantastic Kerri. I like the way the background also has smoky or ghostly asemics.
Here's more plastic comb asemic calligraphy. Guess I should callit "Parted in the Middle" or something.
Mar 30, 2013
Kerri Pullo
I like this one a lot DVS! it somehow reminds me of my grandmother's backyard....her backyared closely, dangerously closely, bordered railroad tracks lined with seemingly never ending beautiful asemic sculpture... courtesy of Commonwealth Edison.
Mar 30, 2013
De Villo Sloan
Kerri, Commonwealth Edison - sounds like Boston.
Then you probably saw at M-L that I deem the plastic comb calligraphy Dark wall's worst work, worse even then the mashed PB&J sandwich on the scanner bed.
BUT they do seem to have the same quality as these recent asemic inkblot experiments by Cheryl Penn, you, Guido and others. And you know that Rorschach inkblot test was a tool in classic Freudian analysis and is still considered a valid psychological test today. It all hinges around what each individual sees in the inkblots, indeed what they project on it.
So I think what you see in the work is very interesting. Only it is holding up a mirror. What you see is yourself.
Mar 30, 2013
Kerri Pullo
it does sound like Boston....interestingly I have lived on Comm Ave! But, it is also Chicago's Electric Co.... my father worked there as an electrical engineer early '80's.
Mar 30, 2013
Kerri Pullo
Electrasemic Sculpture
Mar 30, 2013
fátima queiroz
Mar 31, 2013
fátima queiroz
Mar 31, 2013
fátima queiroz
typewriter
Mar 31, 2013
De Villo Sloan
Thank you very much Fatima! Back to basics concrete poetry. Wonderful!
Now when you get into creating new symbols with overlaid letters, suggestions of syntax or different ways of thinking about linearity by the way things are structured on the page, that might be considered asemic.
Mar 31, 2013
Neil Gordon
YEY! Typewriter art!!! Life in analog....
DVS- Have been getting a lot of Hannah Wiener books from inter-library-loan, one even from the Naropa Institute Library! Hanah had an interesting approach to vispo and concrete at times,
You once mentioned you may have some copies of stuff she had done on some kind of mass -mailing that was popular at the time,-- if you have any copies of the stuff i would be happy to reimburse you for "Xeroxing" them for me!
Mar 31, 2013
De Villo Sloan
@ Kerri - note how your pic of the electric plant matches the concrete work Fatima & I posted.
A lot of this kind of work - Matt Stolte achieves this a lot - seems industrial & metalloid. The repetition & regularity probably has something to do with it.
In contrast, asemicists like Cheryl Penn seem to be developing something that is far more organic - given context by some earlier discussions of bio-poetry and Michael Mc Clure (using DNA models in some of his own work) made the strange but intriguing prediction poems in the future will evolve into living organisms. Now some poems I would be afraid to see as living organisms, but an interesting idea from the fella who penned: "Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz."
Mar 31, 2013
De Villo Sloan
Neil, yeah I do have Hannah Weiner manuscripts that were originally mimeoed or photocopied for the network. Gotta dig deep into the archives but will do my best.
You know, a lot what she did had a component of concrete or visual poetry now that you mention it. (I would be tempted to keep that Naropa stamped copy.)
It was great for her that she could practically go mainstream and do those books with good publishers.
When Silliman did his "In the American Tree" anthology he included a bunch of folks whom he considered near predecessors of Langpo, like Bern Porter, Jackson MacLow, and Hannah Weiner - that definitely brought her from the underground and into a bigger field, which can be good and bad. I never thought she was really Langpo, maybe the opposite in fact, but I've always loved her work.
Glad you found it.
Mar 31, 2013
Neil Gordon
When i saw the Naropa stamp i almost fell out of my Chair, i may copy it to use in mail art! If you can dig stuff up, no rush!& like i said i will reimburse for the copies...
i will check w/ the library for the Silliman bk., Ben Porter, and Mac Low!
Thanks, you have an encyclopedic knowledge of this material, its very helpful DVS!
Mar 31, 2013
Neil Gordon
Nice overlays sometimes i try that w/ the old printer,,, Great typewriter F.Q, and Electrosemics Pulse Pullo
Mar 31, 2013
Neil Gordon
Wow, love the plastic comb asemics DVS, and the Karl Kempton stuff!, Kerri;your work is incredible! SOOO FLOWING>>>
Mar 31, 2013
De Villo Sloan
Karl Kempton is one of the Old Masters from the era of Richard Kostelanetz (spg?), Emmet Wiliams at Higgins' Something Else Press.
I think Ron Silliman is teaching at Naropa this summer - take a road trip to Boulder.
But a long way from Sanders' Investigative Poetry Seminars, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Leary, Jerry Garcia bankrolling the Jack Kerouac conference. Oh well.
Mar 31, 2013
De Villo Sloan
Silliman's anthology In the American Tree (I think originally published by the Poetry Foundation in Orono, Maine) was one of the things that contributed to the rise of Langpo.
It was a smaller scale version of what Don Allen achieved with the epic New American Poetry in 1960 and the Butterick/Allen retread in the 80s called the Postmoderns or something.
How the most obscure poets on the planet like Olson and Spicer became icons - well that was a feat.
Mar 31, 2013
Neil Gordon
Thanks DVS,wish i could high-tail it to Naropa!
Mar 31, 2013
Kerri Pullo
Pullo Family Eggsemic Collab
Mar 31, 2013
De Villo Sloan
Cool pic, Kerri.
I'm glad you rescued me from delivering a rant on the state of contemporary poetry.
Which came first? The pollo or the egg?
Mar 31, 2013
Kerri Pullo
hahaha! good question. I'll withhold my rant on that! I'm still trying to avoid egg in the face.
Mar 31, 2013
fátima queiroz
beautiful poem De Villo!
I have many difficulties in the typewriter, I find it very difficult and you can not make mistakes
Apr 1, 2013
Guido Vermeulen
GREETINGS FROM LEWIS & HARRIS, Part 1
Around 1992 the idea started of personal encounters between networkers all over the globe, A KIND OF MAIL ART TRAVELING.
A congress happened each time mail artists met each other!
Contested by some in the network (no personal meetings, see the statements of Keith Bates in the UK) many joined this movement of personal and collective encounters.
My first publication to document a personal effort happened in 1994, when I traveled to Scotland.
Second traveling to Scotland happened in 1996 in the company of Marilyn Dammann, a networker from the USA with Scottish and Irish roots.
Second edition of the book (61-120) published in 1995 by Lingua & Littera, Liza Leyla, Belgium.
PART 1 of this book with automatic drawings, cut up poems, glue painting and photo of the standing stones of Callanish at the isle of Lewis and Harris... (Western Hebrids)
http://mailartinternationale.blogspot.be
GV
Apr 1, 2013
Guido Vermeulen
JACQUES BERNIMOLIN, 1923 - 1995
Second part of my artist book publication
Greetings from Lewis & Harris, 1994, second edition in 1995 (61-120) by Lingua & Littera, Liza Leyla, Belgium
containing automatic drawings by Jacques
Bernimolin, a poet and pharmacist who followed
the experiments of Henri Michaux and Aldous Huxley (Connaissance par les gouffres / Gates of perception). Next to his amazing vispo work he became a rap poet at an elderly age.
After he died in a retirement home an art commando of friends raided the place to save his artistic heritage
from destruction.
His works are scattered between Belgium and France and in the hands of close friends...
More works are visible on
http://mailartinternationale.blogspot.com
Apr 1, 2013
Guido Vermeulen
IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE in the mailartinternationale blog please mail me your email address so I can invite you as contributor.
Reserves: I want people who have an historic point of view on mail art and are able to surpass the sometimes silly contradictions of the present.
People like Guy Bleus, Ruud Janssen, Geert De Decker, John Held Jr, Clemente Padin, Wilfried Nold, Henning Mittendorf, Gianni Simone, Craig Saper, Vittore Baroni and others.
If you think you can match them, please email me at signsstones@yahoo.com
Apr 1, 2013
De Villo Sloan
Fatime, I agree the old typewriters are very hard to work with compared to any sort of word processing or photoshop to make concrete poetry. Cheryl Penn, for one, still uses a typewriter for some things. Folks might remember her Zalop concerto that used a standard typewriter:
Apr 1, 2013
De Villo Sloan
& Guido, thanks for posting that work.
I've been promising to take on this automatic writing/drawing-asemic connection. Interesting territory. Someday.
Apr 2, 2013
Kerri Pullo
Apr 2, 2013
Kerri Pullo
Apr 2, 2013
Kerri Pullo
Apr 2, 2013
Rebecca Guyver
Apr 3, 2013
Rebecca Guyver
BTW Guido and Kerri, I hung your beautiful asemics book (+ the envelope and other contents from Guido) at the Forest Cafe exhibition (memories are made of this). I did it with trepidation as one can't help but worry that some fan might not be able to resist slipping it in their pocket, but when I checked on Monday it still looked great.
Apr 3, 2013
Kerri Pullo
Thanks Rebecca!
Apr 3, 2013
Neil Gordon
WoW; sandsemics w/ paw prints! Looks like a raccoon, opossum?? Beautiful!
Apr 4, 2013
De Villo Sloan
Fantastic Rebecca! A great concept for the book/object, the haptic/asemic book.
& is that a new kind of pawtry? Or a visit from the pawpers?
Apr 4, 2013
fátima queiroz
Yes, De Villo is very complicated ... I have a hard think more beautiful
Apr 4, 2013
Rebecca Guyver
DVS, pawsibly plausible.
Apr 4, 2013
De Villo Sloan
An imp-pawster among us!
Apr 4, 2013
De Villo Sloan
Putting together a blog, I came across this beautiful work by Rosa Gravino (Rosaria, Argentina) from Asemics 16 collaborative book edition #5:
Apr 4, 2013
Kerri Pullo
wow this Rosa Gravino is stunning!
Apr 4, 2013
De Villo Sloan
Rosa is a Vispo All Star
Apr 4, 2013
John M. Bennett
I.m guest-editing the blog TRUCK this month - http://halvard-johnson.blogspot.com/ - so send me some stuff, text/visuals/whatever, for consideration. visual as jpgs please. send to bennettjohnm@gmail.com, and put TRUCK at head of subject field.
thanks
john
Apr 4, 2013
Guido Vermeulen
About mail art disappearing into other pockets / it is mail art that found another destination! No worries as far as I am concerned..
Apr 5, 2013
Kerri Pullo
Apr 7, 2013
John M. Bennett
would like to see some good stuff for TRUCK which I'm guest-editiing this month. It's at http://halvard-johnson.blogspot.com/
Send stuff to bennettjohnm@gmail.com, and put the work TRUCK at head of subject field
john
Apr 7, 2013
De Villo Sloan
C'mon all students of the Martha Stuart School of Asemic Wallpaper! JMB needs a hand here! A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Apr 7, 2013
Rebecca Guyver
Tragic news: just got the mail art back from The Forest and the one thing that I've noticed that is missing is the Pullo/Vermeulen collab. The first thing I did this morning was to email, hoping it turns up. I am grief stricken. And if it isn't somewhere safe waiting to be mailed back to me, I hope someone really special is enjoying it.
Apr 7, 2013
De Villo Sloan
I am unveiling two batches of work by Kerri Pullo I've been sitting on for too long. Fantastic stuff including an asemic book/folio:
As ever, more at MinXus-Lynxus:
http://minxuslynxus2.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/minxus-mail-bag-treas...
Apr 7, 2013
Kerri Pullo
Many thanks to Guido for sending ET Asemics!
Apr 8, 2013
De Villo Sloan
A very cool posting on "Beyond the Pale" today. A poem by Tom Clark and photos by visual poet Marie Wintzer. Black Mountain/NY School meets vispo.
http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-indifferent-man-things...
Apr 10, 2013