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mg (tipo Rai1):
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUN9mDuP3m6UsVdj50Kgo4Q
slowforward (una specie di Rai2):
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF4pbAEEAcjwznYErB-SUvg
differx (sicuramente una roba simile a Rai3):
https://www.youtube.com/user/differx
(n.b.: ogni riferimento a tv ed entità realmente esistenti ma soprattutto esistite è puramente casuale o frutto di giuoco)
I was a poet, and for me that meant pushing the edges of poetry, and the edges of myself while writing poetry. The line was an edge, and the rhyme was an edge, and the stanza was an edge, and the syllable was an edge. Eventually it became impossible to ignore the idea of the letter as an edge. Once having agreed to that, it became impossible to ignore the shapes of the letter — first the shapes of the printed letters, in an array of fonts, and then the shapes of the handwritten letters.
From the outset, the idea of producing meanings had been for me subordinate to the idea of making poems. If all I had wanted to do was produce meanings, I would have written conventional sentences and paragraphs. But that was not what I wanted.
So I wrote poems, and I pushed the edges of the poem, and in doing that I was pushing the edges of myself, my sense of satisfaction and achievement, my sense of my own skills and competence, and I was never satisfied, intentionally, by choice, never satisfied, I refused to accept the sense of being satisfied, so eventually, inevitably, I found myself producing desemantized or asemic writings.
And that was a plateau, a stage, and I knew from the outset that I was only passing through, that I would never be satisfied with desemantized or asemic writing, any more than I had been satisfied with writing conventional poems.
Over the years a community of asemic writers has become active and visible and, to the extent that I am a part of it at all, my role has evolved to be a kind of advocate for incessant criticality. As a participant in the conversation around asemic writing, I can be counted on to say something similar to “yes, you are right, but…” Yes, you are right, but that is not enough, it is not even particularly important. What is important is to keep moving. Asemic writing works for you? Fantastic. Now move on and do something else.
Jim Leftwich
Jim Leftwich_ Desemantized Writing
Desemantized Writing
For me, the practice of asemic writing began in processes I was using in the mid-to-late 1990s to write textual poems. Beginning with a large variety of source texts, those processes included syllabic and phonemic improvisation, varieties of cut-and-paste recombination (of letters, of morphemes, of words, of phrases, of sentences, and of paragraphs), varieties of misdirectional readings-as-writings (moving through paragraphs from right to left, from top to bottom and vice-versa in columns, reading multiple lines in wave patterns, reading paragraphs and pages diagonally, etc), and formulas for extracting, replacing and/or omitting letters from poems and paragraphs. The poems and paragraphs I was writing during those years were constructed, we could say, for reasons other than that of producing meaning.
Sometime late in 1996, I was warned that if I continued on the path I had chosen I would eventually wind up producing asemic texts.
In January 1998 I wrote the following to Tim Gaze: “An asemic text, then, might be involved with units of language for reasons other than that of producing meaning.”
If I had known the term “desemantized writing” at that time, I would certainly have used it, rather than “asemic writing”. The term ‘desemantized writing” is much more accurate, much clearer, much more precisely descriptive of the processes from which my “asemic writing” emerged.
Again, let me emphasize that this little note is accurate in relation to my own processes and practices, and I am fully aware of the fact that it does not apply to the relationships
that many others have with the theory and practice of asemic writing.
If I had known the term “desemantized writing” in the 1990s, rather than the term “asemic writing”, then Tim Gaze and I would have been using the term “desemantized writing” in our correspondence. The term “desemantized writing” would have been used in our international exchanges through the mail art and small press poetry networks. Chances are that Tim’s magazine would have been named “desemantized writing”. Then, sometime around 2005, when Michael Jacobson encountered the magazine and the word, maybe instead of “asemic writing” he would have used the term “desemantized writing” in his interviews and essays.
It’s interesting (again: speaking only for myself) to rewrite this imaginary history, but unfortunately, here and now, in 2021, it is only a kind of game. I didn’t learn of the term “desemantized writing” for another decade-and-a-half, when Marco Giovenale told me about its use among Italian verbovisual poets in the 1960s and 70s.
jim leftwich
05.18.2021
il “cos’è” sì. ma il “come mai” forse non si trova qui; tuttavia quella pagina, quella strana specie di manifesto che ho scritto in quella data, la riscriverei ora: https://mgiovenale.medium.com/installance-aug-23rd-2010-755e30d8e3ba
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risoluzione media (9,83 Mb):
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versione sfogliabile:
https://archive.org/details/il-paradiso-e-le-sue-rappresentazioni-studio-campo-boario-2020-21-mr
alta risoluzione (versione sfogliabile, 94,4 Mb):
https://archive.org/details/il-paradiso-e-le-sue-rappresentazioni-studio-campo-boario-2020-21-hr
visione a schermo del pdf su slowforward (media risoluzione):
https://slowforward.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/il-paradiso-e-le-sue-rappresentazioni_-studio-campo-boario-2020-21_-mr.pdf
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download pdf:
media risoluzione
download pdf:
alta risoluzione
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COMUNICATO ESTESO:
https://slowforward.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/il-paradiso-e-le-sue-rappresentazioni_-comunicato-esteso.pdf
installance n. : # 0156 type : asemic writing on a plastic hook size : ~ cm 5,2 x 1,5 records : highres shot additional notes : abandoned date : May 13th, 2021 time : 5:57pm place : Rome, via di Donna Olimpia footnote : --- copyright : (CC) 2021 differx
Con un leggero ritardo lo Studio Campo Boario (Roma, v.le Campo Boario 4a) apre la mostra
Paradise Room
all’interno (e all’esterno) del padiglione progettato da David Sabatello
interventi di:
Massimo Arduini, Marco Ariano, Carmelo Baglivo, Jacopo Benci,
Giulia Bertotto, Alberto D’Amico, Stefania Fabrizi, Marco Giovenale, Pierluigi Isola,
Fabio Lapiana, Lucia Nazzaro, Anna Onesti, Gabriella Pace, Julie Rebecca Poulain,
Ilaria Restivo, Andrea Sabatello, Silvia Stucky
video di:
Paolo Albani, Niccolò Daviddi, Ada De Pirro, Raffaela Fazio, Gianni Garrera, Giuseppe Garrera
La mostra è inserita nell’evento Il Paradiso e le sue rappresentazioni,
ideato e curato da Alberto D’Amico e Bruno Lo Turco per RAW Rome Art Week 2020
Le visite possono essere fissate nel tratto di tempo che va
dalle 16:00 del venerdì 14 maggio fino alle 20:00 di domenica 16 maggio 2021
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Negli stessi giorni (a partire dalla mattina di venerdì 14) sarà consultabile su slowforward.net il libro curato da Silvia Stucky con gli interventi degli artisti e relatori: sarà disponibile in media risoluzione (9,83 Mb), sfogliabile direttamente su slowforward, e in alta risoluzione (94,4 Mb), scaricabile sempre dallo stesso sito.
Poi non dite che non vi avevo avvertito, e che Hejinian vi suona nuova, Tarkos non lo conoscete, l’asemic writing è un gateau di semi e i non assertivi sono un progetto Marvel.
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installance n. : # 0155 type : asemic writing on a broken screencover of an a40 samsung cellphone size : cm 14 x 6,20 records : highres shot additional notes : abandoned date : Apr. 27th, 2021 time : 11:48am place : Rome, via G.F.Ingrassia footnote : --- copyright : (CC) 2021 differx
