Collaborative Mail Art Book by Matt Taggart (Montana, USA) & Luc Fierens (Weerde, Belgium)

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Cover of Trajectory EXTRA POSTFLUXPOST collaborative book by IUOMA member Matt Taggart

(Billings, Montana, USA) & Luc Fierens (Weerde, Belgium)

 

June 22, 2019 - I have written extensively elsewhere about the highly original and important work of visual poets in Belgium including Luc Fierens, Thierry Tillier, Little Shiva and the late Guido Vermeulen, among others. A collab by Luc Fieren and Thierry Tillier can be found on the original Asemic Front (let's call it Asemic Front 1). Their image-text explorations make a vital contribution to the Asemic Front mail art project.

Luc Fierens generously sent, at my invitation, a quantity of relevant material for AF2. I will document this work in several installments. To begin, here are scans of Trajectory by Matt Taggart and Luc Fierens.

These complex image-text structures first appeared in 2013 as part of Fieren's well-known POSTFLUXPOST publications. Trajectory is presented on 16 panels. As is my usual practice, I will not re-publish the entire work in digital form. I will present excerpts that I believe are particularly notable and that address in insightful ways the process of signification, so central to asemic theory. Asemic Front has confirmed the view, widely held but not without dissenters, that asemics and visual poetry are inherently connected.

Matt Taggart and Luc Fierens have styles and concerns that, for me, are unusually well-matched for the purposes of collaboration. The results are exceedingly successful, which also makes them of great interest to Asemic Front 2.
 

by Matt Taggart & Luc Fierens

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trajectory by Matt Taggart & Luc Fierens