https://www.rosaireappel.com/seesongs.html
The eyes look, and the eyes read. I propose they can also listen – an act different from both looking and reading. To explore this possibility, I have put together a book of non-linguistic, non-pictorial visual material: Seesongs. The drawings in this book are progressions of visual marks, which could be called asemic music/ notation.
‘When the eye listens, the mind sings.’
—Rosaire Appel
“Offerings”: asemic, concrete and visual poetry by John Richard McConnochie. Now showing at VVG’s website, VanVlietGallery.com until mid-November. A catalog of the show is available for purchase.
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Perhaps it is possible, in the field of asemic writing, to distinguish a few —completely hypothetical— categories. I insist that these are mere hypotheses, and that I am not interested in structuring a rigorous theory.
We have (1) concrete asemic writing when only the asemic glyphs and calligraphy, only the asemic letters and sentences are present on the page. No images, no colors.
We can also say asemicrete, a term coined by Michael Jacobson.
We can say we have (2) visual asemic writing when we see the asemic symbols are intertwined, superimposed or when they —in any other way— simply share the page with abstract or realistic images.
We have (3) glitchasemics when an asemic text is evidently disturbed by some kind of glitch: it may even be severely disturbed, but not so much as to make the asemic part completely disappear.
We can say we have (4) abstrasemics when an abstract drawing or image turns itself into something resembling an illegible text, an asemic piece. Or, on the contrary, when a fragment of asemic writing gradually loses any vaguely linguistic aspect and is transformed into an abstract image.
Post scriptum.
At the same time, there are examples of works that marginalize —or do not include at all— an asemic aspect, and I would refer to them as: abstract or realistic paintings (pictorial works, photographs etc.) weirdly called “asemic writing” by their authors; legible alphabets and texts weirdly called “asemic writing” by their authors; monotonous decorations that would hardly be taken for words or sentences.
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Grazie a Peter Genito e alla rivista ‘Cultura commestibile’ per l’intervista (trascrizione del video che si può vedere al link https://youtu.be/k7mNOICD-Dc?t=346) che è uscita nella sua prima parte sul n. 456 del 16 luglio scorso. Si può leggere sia all’indirizzo https://maschiettoeditore.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Cultura-Commestibile-456.pdf (pag. 9) sia qui: https://slowforward.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/intervista-a-mgiovenale_-cultura-commestibile-456_-16-lug-2022.pdf (pdf) oppure qui: https://slowforward.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/jpg-intervista-cultura-commestibile-456.jpg (jpg).
La seconda parte uscirà successivamente.
Macro, 21 ottobre 2021
CIACCONA DI DARIO
A LETTER FOR MY SON (2021)
EMILIO GALANTE FLAUTI E COMPOSIZIONE
ENZO PATTI POESIA ASEMIC
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Palazzo del Governatore, a Parma, fino al 24 luglio ospita Variazione nella ripetizione. Gaibazzi e la scrittura nelle arti visive, a cura di Francesco Tedeschi e Andrea Piazza.
La mostra prende in considerazione l’ultima fase produttiva di Remo Gaibazzi (1915-1994) e dedica un’intera sezione al dialogo dell’artista con colleghi che condivisero alcune sue tematiche: la ripetizione e il ritmo; la scrittura e la sua negazione; il segno come materia. Tra gli altri, Gastone Novelli, Piero Dorazio, Enrico Castellani, Roman Opalka, Emilio Isgrò, Alighiero Boetti, Dadamaino, Vincenzo Agnetti, Irma Blank, Eros Bonamini.
Maggiori informazioni:
https://www.remogaibazzi.net/exhibition/variazione-nella-ripetizione/
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Remo Gaibazzi: lavoro come scrittura, scrittura come lavoro
Tavola rotonda del 24 giugno 2022
Registrazione della tavola rotonda tenutasi presso il Palazzo del Governatore di Parma. Interventi di Andrea Calzolari, Arturo Carlo Quintavalle, Francesco Tedeschi, Giorgio Zanchetti
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La mostra, ad ingresso libero, proseguirà fino al 24 luglio 2022 con i seguenti orari:
dal martedì al venerdì dalle 9.00 alle 13.00 e dalle 15.00 alle 19.00,
il sabato e la domenica dalle 9.00 alle 19.00 con orario continuato.
Chiuso lunedì
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in inglese su discord esistono vari server di letteratura. ma nessuno che, in italiano, si occupi di ricerca letteraria.
ora c’è: https://discord.gg/7qxE5QnbwP
in qualche modo prosegue l’iniziativa (indipendente e in fieri) “Esiste la ricerca?”, avviata con l’incontro allo Studio Campo Boario (Roma) il 16 giugno 2022: https://slowforward.net/2022/06/16/oggi-16-giugno-a-roma-esiste-la-ricerca-incontro-allo-studio-campo-boario/
la scelta di prendere “gammm” come incipit del nome (invece di usare semplicemente “scritture di ricerca”) è dirimente per delimitare gli ambiti tematico-formali che sono in campo.
quindi le zone di sperimentazione di cui il sito https://gammm.org si occupa da sedici anni in qua: montaggio, cut-up, googlism, scritture concettuali, uncreative writing, littéralité, post-poesia, prosa in prosa(-e), flarf, scritture installative, generatori di testo, scritture frammentate / disturbate, minimal writing, found texts, sought texts, percorsi procedurali, scritture non assertive, musica sperimentale, critica non stilistica.
anche, ma in misura forse minore, materiali verbovisivi, asemic writing, glitch, arte contemporanea (più o meno in rapporto col fronte della testualità).
tendenzialmente non ci si occupa invece di performance, di videopoesia, di poesia visiva, di poesia sonora, di letteratura interattiva, di programmazione, di romanzo, di teatro, di cinema, di animazioni.
Mysticism, whether atheistic or otherwise, has always welcomed a spectrum of experiences valued primarily for their absurdity and futility. The experience of asemic writing, whether one is attempting to write it or attempting to read it, is fundamentally a mystical experience. It is The Face That Is No Face, the Via Negativa.
Let’s say I make a sequence of tangled squiggles, with baggy loops here, jagged-edged bulges there, poncruated with curatorial punctuation marks in the form of randomly tilted ascenders and descenders, moving suggestively from left to right on the foundation of an imaginary baseline. It looks like writing, but we can’t read it, says the entry at Wikipedia. It must be asemic writing, says a contextualized leap of faith.
What if it is, in theory and in practice, experientially, a kind of quasi-calligraphic drawing?
This is not the Via Negativa. It is direct experience of the mystery. Direct Experience of The Mystery. There is no wrong reading, judged and condemned by official authorities on the matter. There are no Official Authorities on the matter. And there is no range of acceptable interpretations of the experience, no spectrum of permitted discourse about the acceptable interpretations.
There is no attempt at reading, not of any variety, and therefore there is no writing, of any variety, asemic or otherwise.
Asemic writing, in its absolute failure to exist, can function in our lives as a kind of pagan spiritual discipline, one designed to give us greater access to the experience of experience.
