Archivi categoria: asemic

all'”esterno” dello spettacolo_ ovvero: contro il ritorno del retinico / differx. 2023

All’esterno dello spettacolo (come della “contemplazione” → anni ’70), forse il problema maggiore comparso con il Novecento nel suo svolgersi è stato proprio questo: il ritorno massiccio del retinico sotto forma di spettacolo. E, in ciò, forse è stato peggiore il secondo “monstrum”: quello appunto spettacolare (frontale, mai obliquo, mai mercuriale, sempre e solo figurativo, mai metamorfico, mai trasfigurativo o defigurativo).

Per questo, e qui dirò qualcosa di relativamente imprevedibile, non è possibile prendere troppo sul serio la stessa pratica dell’asemic writing così come è, per sé. (E peggio ancora in funzione di una ipotetica liberazione dalle pastoie del linguaggio, della semantica: mossa puerile, il più delle volte).

La scrittura asemica a mio modo di vedere ha senso se sottoposta a una sottrazione di percezione connotata, aisthesis, osservabilità-posa, calligrafia, moina, spettacolo.

Ma la sottrazione stessa, ancora, va pensata non in forma museale = daccapo vedibile/vendibile.

Questo è uno scoglio che credo la scrittura asemica debba osservare ed evitare, a vent’anni e più dalla sua “esplosione” come versante artistico diffuso, riconosciuto, condiviso.

‘koko’ – next generation journal, issue #1, “text/image parergon”

KOKO – Next Generation Journal

Text/Image Parergon

Here is the first thematic “space” of KOKO – The Next Generation Journal, a Shared Campus publication.

Text/Image Parergon explores potentials and challenges in the relations of scriptorial and pictorial signs. How do text and image respectively frame an artefact? Does the combination of both constitute an extended value or merely a supplementary by-product that primarily appeals to the visual and other senses? Should such parerga be considered positively as added experiential benefit, or negatively as distractive embellishments of a core? Questions like these are explored in an initial set of academic “Conversations”, through the “Proceedings” of a dedicated conference and in image-with-text “Essays” by researchers working on and across the boundaries of scholarly research and creative production.

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Conversations

Proceedings: Distancing – Contemporary Art in Reciprocity with Philosophy

Hosted on 16 May 2019 at the Kunstraum Kreuzlingen (CH) by the Zürich University of the Arts the symposium was set to explore the iconography of philosophical texts – in particular the imagery of Lady Philosophy as first introduced into philosophical tradition by the late antique writer Boethius (477–524) in his work The Consolation of Philosophy (approx. 524). The juxtaposition of medieval thinking, its articulation in illuminations, and in return their impact as challenge for contemporary creative practices, highlighted the need to investigate the mostly unquestioned principal opposition between immaterial thoughts and materialized images.

Essays

Space Editors: Peter Benz & Nils Röller

KOKO Editorial Statement

It is the ambition of KOKO to establish a lively and continuously evolving community of researchers contributing to respective topics; we therefore are always interested to receive feedback and/or potentially new contributions also to already existing “spaces”.
Where the more conventional formats have exhausted their possibilities, artists, designers and/or other creatives may use KOKO to create a metaphorical space for exchange through an externalised conversation between the researcher/creative practitioner and her subject.
 

www.koko-journal.net
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pod al popolo, #016_ la scrittura di ricerca *non* è asemic writing

Per qualche motivo, negli ultimi dieci anni (circa), si è diffuso non poco l’errato luogo comune che bizzarramente identifica o avvicina scrittura di ricerca e asemic writing, mentre le due cose sono radicalmente diverse. La prima indica una testualità lineare o complessa tuttavia leggibile, e di ambito letterario; mentre la seconda appartiene integralmente all’invenzione grafica e all’illeggibilità. Lo ripeto in un minuto circa di Pod al popolo. Il podcast irregolare, ennesimo fail again fail better dell’occidente postremo. Buon ascolto.

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Nell’immagine qui sotto si ammira la differenza evidente tra l’incipit di un celebre testo di ricerca e (a fianco) un non celebre esempio di asemic writing:

barbara brownie on asemic writing in comics and graphic novels

https://www.academia.edu/6903409/Alien_Scripts_Pseudo_Writing_and_Asemisis_in_Comics_and_Graphic_Novels

anche in ebook

https://www.bookrepublic.it/ebooks/autore/marco-giovenale/

info: https://www.ikona.net/category/edizioni-ikonaliber/le-forme-del-linguaggio/

michael jacobson’s books: “works & interviews”, “hei kuu”, “somnolent game”, and “id est”

«I am Michael Jacobson, a book and sound poetry publisher at Post-Asemic Press. This video displays the books I have written and released out into the world. They include my collected asemic calligraphy ‘Works & Interviews,’ my ribald-punk senryu poetry collection ‘Hei Kuu,’ a prose poetry novella ‘Somnolent Game,’ and my forthcoming (September 2023) abstract illuminated manuscript: ‘id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism.’ All of these books express different chapters in my life experience, but they all tie together my personal mythology in the codex form».

http://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/

Michael Jacobson is a writer, artist, publisher, and independent curator from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA/Turtle Island. His books include an abstract illuminated manuscript titled ‘id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism,’ a prose poetry novella ‘Somnolent Game’ (Post-Asemic Press), his collected asemic writing ‘Works & Interviews’ (Post-Asemic Press), his autobiographical collection of senryu poems ‘Hei Kuu’ (Post-Asemic Press), and his EP of sound poetry ‘Schizo Variations;’ he is also co-editor of ‘An Anthology Of Asemic Handwriting’ (Punctum Books). Besides writing books, he curates a gallery for asemic writing called The New Post-Literate. He also sits on the editorial board of SCRIPTjr.nl. Recently, he was published in ‘The Last Vispo Anthology’ (Fantagraphics). In 2017, he curated the Minnesota Center for Book Arts exhibit: Asemic Writing: Offline & In The Gallery. Other countries where he has curated exhibits of asemic writing include Mexico, Spain, and Malta. His online interviews are at Poemeleon, SampleKanon, Asymptote Journal, Twenty Four Hours, David Alan Binder, GAS, Utsanga, Schizoaffective, and at Medium. In the past, he created the cover art for Rain Taxi’s 2014 winter issue. Back in 2017, he founded Post-Asemic Press, to publish asemic writing, visual poetry, experimental poetry, and audio recordings of sound poetry. In 2019, he was written up in the book ‘Asemic: The Art of Writing’ (University of Minnesota Press) by Peter Schwenger; it has an entire chapter dedicated to Jacobson’s calligraphic work. He also founded and administers the asemic writing Facebook group. In his spare time, he curates a cyberspace gallery of planets dubbed THAT: A Plan(et).