Asemic Writing for Mail-Artists

Thanks DVS. Love to see the Wintzer/Clark collab.

Yip, our own Marie (x-IUOMA). A great image-text piece, IMHO.

@ TC is of that generation with Bill Berkson, your former schoolmate. The generations of NY School especially have/had that interest in the visual arts, so it's interesting to see how the whole thing was approached.

Agree. Great. It makes me more convinced that we should never sleep. So much to explore, do. And everything nearly accessible now so it's only a matter of doing if you're any good. Inspiring. Ironic that I'm having to sew curtains to keep the light out (now).

You know, Rebecca, in some ways it's funny because you can read into Marie's comments" "What? Me? How did I get here?" Because she's on this blog that runs Ed Sanders, Aram Saroyan, on & on & there she is in Tokyo never having considered that what she does could possibly have affinity with that. But it does.

Concrete poetry likely entered the US from Brazil to Black Mt. College in the 1950s. 

If you think about it, it's mind-boggling, bordering on total overload. But I do really love that piece.

But yes, step away from the computer and decompress.

@ maybe we can get Marie to come back to IUOMA, at least for a guest appearance.

Maybe.  Do you think she would? You know I was just thinking how some people get launched and some people do the launching. I dunno, both evoked the Browning in me which made me smile.

I won't write anything I'll regret. Who knows?

My view is to enjoy the day. Two really great people (IMHO) made something wonderful for us. I'm enjoying the hell out of it, I admit. You seem to share it too, 

Here in the hypertext wasteland tomorrow might be different.

DVS; Thanks for educating us on these different schools of poetry so vital to our asemics, trashpo,etc.. Through the wonders of Inter-library -loan>>> I've been grooving on Hannah Weiner! Just got back from the library today and in came in"In The American Tree", and" Lit" by Ron Silliman, also ; "Thing of beauty" by Jackson Mac Low! Now I'll go check out this :Black mt. School " when I', done w/ these....

Gosh Neil. I'm humbled I could steer you into the "news that stays news" (Pound). Maybe the Martha Stuart School of Asemic Wallpaper can award you a degree because that's a reading list equivalent to a graduate degree.

Well, if you then get into Olson, Creeley, Duncan (Black Mt.) that will bring you neatly onto what I gather is your home turf: The Beats. 

@ don't know that MacLow specifically but I found him rough until I "got it." That chance operations stuff, one breed of Fluxus poetry. You have to use different glasses for that.

Nice DVS! Thanks for the "required reading "Selections- yes Beat is one of my many Turfs;Beatitude:-the typewriter is holy!

The Forest has 'found' the Vermeulen/Pullo collab! It is in a pigeonhole waiting to be collected.  I'll have it back before long.

Thanks for giving us some closure on the mystery, Rebecca.

aSemic torso  by Alexander Limarev  Russia  2013

Nice work John and Alexander! Both different expressions and mediums...

A great asemic catch today!

Fatima - thanks for sharing your always amazing work with the group.

Neil - love your comments. You are always welcome - the inventor of scared Trashemics no less - to post some of your creations as well as astute & always enthusiastic observations.

John - always there for us. Your making TRUCK a Holy River of the Otherstream this month in the Guest Editor spot. I keep checking in on that.

Alexandar Limarev - what an honour! We have been posting Alexander's vispo at MinXus-Lynxus & folks must know him through the mail. This is the first asemic work I have seen. Much appreciated.

Here is a piece by Matthew Stolte of Madison, Vis-consin, USA that I've just gotten around to documenting. This might be asemic-vispo or something along those lines in that you have a number of things going on:

http://minxuslynxus2.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/minxus-mail-bag-vispo...

I really, really hope she doesn't mind. Here is a very fine asemic-vispo piece from Sharon Silverman (Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA) that I want to share. Many folks must know her through all her projects. 

A night at Hotel I FEEL THE FLUX

Thanks DVS for the shout out!!!!! I'm feeling the Asemic Love here! Everyday ,inspiring work from everyone!

Ecosemics made by roots of roses in my garden

Formal Russian Asemic of XXI century (and XX century)

* the photo of "NANO-soap"  

Guido - thanks for keeping the eco-asemic beat. Eco-asemics are close to my heart.

Alexander Limarev, that is great! NANO soap asemics - and formal Russian or Russian Formalism? Thank you! Stellar

Alexander Limarev points to the practice of asemic object poetry, haptic-asemics, Cheryl Penn's practice of making asemic clay tablets, as well as found or readymade asemic material - great stuff. Here is a piece I received from Christopher Skinner (UK) that fits the concept.

Hi!  Formalist Russian. Thanks.

Semic asemics:

Works from Fatima Queiroz, dispatched to me via Wilma Duguay

Thanks you for posting those, Guido. Fatima is just....wow!

Neil, Aloha. We're all in & out as there are pressing things. I know you'll be back when you can cuz, like, where else you gonna go?

snippets of asemics 2011-2013

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Beautiful Kerri!

Fantastic idea, Kerri.

Thank you!

Here is a link to some seriously interesting visual-textual intermedia work. Poetry by Jim Dine, pics and vispo by Marie Wintzer, montaged by Tom Clark:

http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/jim-dine-occurring-without...

asemics in music video - The Cinematic Orchestra "Dawn"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwjmMcN1WtU

Kerri, great video. Thank you for posting! Some of the smoky apparitions remind me of a concept pioneered right here at the Martha Stuart School of Asemic Wallpaper - the dream of non-toxic Asemic Gas. Maybe some day we'll get there. Until then, Asemic Mom needs the gas mask.

Claudia McGill (Wyncote, Pennsylvania, USA) sent me this gorgeous work. The approach is "painterly" but I see elements of asemics & vispo. Anyway, it's a work I treasure:

More at MinXus-Lynxus:

http://minxuslynxus2.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/minxus-mail-bag-asemi...

this piece by Claudia is a beauty!

Some amazing works received 2day from Tatiana Makarova, Russia

Admiring the cosmic spaghetti, for Faces booklet 4

John, I really like these semic-asemic pieces. "he began, 'that ain't the whole story" - you're going to be tagged with pomo with things like that, suggesting there is a narrative there somewhere outside the work. You have a real field composition thing going there also with those partial word elements.

Asemic comrades, seeking the Holy Grail of the purely asemic, JMB's calligraphy in black is certainly one path: You have the suggestion of letters, words, syntax. As far as I can see, they refuse to come together into something that can be "read" in any conventional way.

Guido, I go for "cosmic spaghetti" there, where the asemics are food but also a representation of speech itself, IMHO.

Wow, we are blessed with that beautiful work by Tatiana Makarova: beautiful and not unlike Kerri Pullo's object poem pieces. 

Kerri, I understand Claudia Mc Gill is stepping out of collage for the first time to experiment with asemics & vispo elements, although she is primarily a painter.

Thanks all!

hi de villo

yep, there's always a narrative outside or inside or somewhere in and around my work, or many narratives.  since we exist in the dimension of time (among other dimensions), there's always a story - always

john

More ecosmics, some «lucky shots», reflections of the leaves of trees in a water bowl in my garden, a sea food ship in fact of which now my cats and rabbit drink

More ecosemics: who is riding the wall as a horse? The tree does!

Welcome Moan, I've been watching your spontaneous poetry generation elsewhere. It's great that it's taken an asemic turn. Thanks for posting this fascinating work (the enlarge function is really helpful for folks who want to take a closer look). The symbols & script evolve in a stream-of-consciousness way so the field is not frozen into any specific "language" like a lot of other asemic work, Great stuff, IMHO.

JMB, thanks for that insight on your work. I know some people are hesitant to explain a lot, leaving the work to speak for itself. Those little insights, though, can be very illuminating for some of us.

@ for Asemic Comrades trying to "figure it out" (nothing to figure out except what comes naturally) or looking for possible directions, you can see 3 possible, classic approaches to asemics below:

1) Moan Lisa - the back to basics asemic calligraphy/handwriting on blank paper.

2) Guido Vermeulen - unaltered photos revealing asemics in the natural world.

3) John M. Bennett - asemics inscribed on the object poem/poem as object torn cardboard with found text, images - a vispo presence also in that work.

Now there are people making asemic scripts too, going the typography route as well. This all illustrates the many directions that can be taken.