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Differenze, ripetizioni, ritornelli, brand new stuff e molto altro.
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.
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
Usually the adjective “asemic” (=signless) was linked by some dictionaries to “asemia” as a pathologic defaillance consisting in an impossibility of comprehending and expressing words, gestures, sounds. It was not related to the idea of asemic writing.
So, …after twenty years of asemic writing movement, this Cambridge turn looks like a great achievement.
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When the first (self-aware) asemic writing mags, sites, books and series started their journey, more than 20 years ago, the actual meaning of “a-semia” ( = a radical “absence of sign”, not an absence of semantic meaning) risked to put aside the very idea which grounded the practice of asemic writing.
On the contrary, now it seems that the use of the word “asemic” is better perceived as referred to an artistic practice, rather than a pathology. (according to Cambridge, at least..).
Tra gli oggetti segreti di cui Giuseppe Garrera ha parlato nel suo intervento a Palazzo Taverna lunedì scorso, cè anche una mia installance. Si può rivedere il video su YouTube (precisamente qui) o una microrassegna su Instagram, sia in forma di video che di serie di foto.
è nato un canale Telegram per materiali e aggiornamenti legati alla ricerca artistica, musicale, testuale, video, che integra e amplia il lavoro che slowforward sta facendo da 18 anni.
chi è interessato alla sperimentazione recente (o, in certi casi, ‘storica’/storicizzata) può iscriversi e seguire il link https://t.me/slowforward
installance n. : # 0151
type : asemic texts on transparent plastic strip
size : unknown
records : highres shot
additional notes : abandoned
date : Jan. 15th, 2020
time : 11:27am
place : viale dei Quattro venti, Rome
note : none
Cecil Touchon was Born in 1956 in Austin, Texas is a contemporary American collage artist, painter, published poet, and theorist living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Co-founder of the International Post-Dogmatist Group, Touchon is director of the group’s Ontological Museum, Founder of the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage, and Construction, and founder of the International Society of Assemblage and Collage Artists. Cecil Touchon is best known for his Typographic Abstraction works that ‘Free the letters from their burden of being bearers of meaning”.
Touchon co-founded the International Post-Dogmatist Group (IPDG) in 1987. Primarily an alternative to a post-modernist view of the world, the group’s writings suggest that creativity and artistic pursuits must be based in a recognition of the spiritual underpinnings of all human activities. The IPDG addresses itself to the art world through a presentation of itself as the ‘official avant-garde’ creating an elaborate bureaucratic structure of outlandish sounding offices through which the various members communicate simulating ‘the establishment’ as a form of parody.
In 2005 an exhibition was held in Cuernavaca, Mexico entitled “Cecil Touchon – Thirty Years of Fluxing Around” in which art works and scores dating as early as 1975 were exhibited showing the fluxus tendency in Touchon’s work over the last thirty years. Touchon has never been formally associated with the Fluxus group until the year 2000 with his participation in the Fluxlist – an email group where the current generation fluxus artists interact and collaborate. In 2002 Touchon, with a number of other artists from the Fluxlist established the Fluxnexus – a group of artists working together on various new Fluxus projects including a new Fluxus performance workbook. In 2006 Touchon established the FluxMuseum in order to assemble and archive samples of works by contemporary 21st Century Fluxus artists. The central focus of the Fluxmuseum has been the creation of Fluxus related publications and curating and mounting international exhibitions of Fluxus art called Fluxhibitions.
