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roma, 3 marzo, studio campo boario: “asemics. senso senza significato”, di mg. presentazione di giuseppe garrera

Venerdì 3 marzo, alle ore 18:00
a Roma, presso lo Studio Campo Boario
(Viale del Campo Boario 4a)

 Giuseppe Garrera presenta

ASEMICS. Senso senza significato

di Marco Giovenale 

(IkonaLíber, 2023)

 

http://www.ikona.net/marco-giovenale-asemics-senso-senza-significato

Questa sequenza di annotazioni, fuori da ogni ipotesi di esaustione, propone un possibile itinerario attraverso la storia delle espressioni “scrittura asemica” (o “asemantica” o “desemantizzata”) e “asemic writing”; e inoltre offre alcuni elementi di teoria che configurano l’identità di questa pratica artistica come «macchina di disorganizzazione e disintegrazione del significato ad opera del senso stesso».
                   

Libro con immagini di:
Rosaire Appel, Anneke Baeten, May Bery, Marcia Brauer, Axel Calatayud, Cecelia Chapman, Tim Gaze, Ariel González Losada, Michael Jacobson, Satu Kaikkonen, Paul Klee, Karri Kokko, Jim Leftwich, Arturo Martini, John McConnochie, Miriam Midley, Stephen Nelson, Laura Ortiz, Ekaterina Samigulina / Tae Ateh, Lucinda Sherlock, Jay Snodgrass, Lina Stern, Miron Tee, Cecil Touchon

Evento facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/731660138335394

Ulteriori informazioni:
http://www.ikona.net/marco-giovenale-asemics-senso-senza-significato/
https://slowforward.net/2023/02/20/asemics-senso-senza-significato-ikonaliber-cenni-di-storia-e-teoria-dellasemic-writing/

Anteprima:
https://issuu.com/ikonaliber/docs/asemics_anteprima

Pagina facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/giovenale.asemics.ikonaliber

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“asemics. senso senza significato” (ikonalíber): cenni di storia e teoria dell’asemic writing

http://www.ikona.net/marco-giovenale-asemics-senso-senza-significato/
immagine in copertina: Paul Klee, Scrittura astratta

Il libro è disponibile / The book is available
Testo in lingua italiana / Text in Italian

Con immagini di / With images by
Rosaire Appel, Anneke Baeten, May Bery, Marcia Brauer, Axel Calatayud, Cecelia Chapman, Tim Gaze, Ariel González Losada, Michael Jacobson, Satu Kaikkonen, Paul Klee, Karri Kokko, Jim Leftwich, Arturo Martini, John McConnochie, Miriam Midley, Stephen Nelson, Laura Ortiz, Ekaterina Samigulina / Tae Ateh, Lucinda Sherlock, Jay Snodgrass, Lina Stern, Miron Tee, Cecil Touchon

—> è possibile ordinarlo qui / order the book here <—

Quarta di copertina:
Questa sequenza di annotazioni, fuori da ogni ipotesi di esaustione, propone un possibile itinerario attraverso la storia delle espressioni “scrittura asemica” (o “asemantica” o “desemantizzata”) e “asemic writing”; e inoltre offre alcuni elementi di teoria che configurano l’identità di questa pratica artistica come «macchina di disorganizzazione e disintegrazione del significato ad opera del senso stesso.
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Blurb:
This sequence of annotations, beyond any hypothesis of exhaustion, draws a possible itinerary through the history of the expressions “scrittura asemica” (or “asemantica” [asemantic] or “desemantizzata” [“desemantized”]) and “asemic writing”; and also offers some theoretical elements that configure the identity of this artistic practice as «a machine of disorganization and disintegration of meaning by means of sense itself»

Più informazioni qui / more infos here:
http://www.ikona.net/marco-giovenale-asemics-senso-senza-significato/

Anteprima / preview:
https://issuu.com/ikonaliber/docs/asemics_anteprima

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/giovenale.asemics.ikonaliber

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Print edition: ORDINARE QUI / ORDER IT HERE
E-book: available at https://www.bookrepublic.it/

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TABULA GRATULATORIA

L’autore e l’editore desiderano ringraziare sentitamente tutti coloro che hanno permesso la riproduzione delle opere contenute nel libro: Graziosa Bertagnin e Roberto A. Bertagnin; Giovanni Galli per le Edizioni Canova; Katrin Keller, il Zentrum Paul Klee di Berna; e gli artisti già nominati.
Una speciale gratitudine va all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo, a Enzo Patti e Toni Romanelli, che – per un incontro sulla scrittura asemica lí organizzato da Francesco Aprile nel dicembre 2019 – hanno non solo dato occasione a questo saggio di nascere, ma lo hanno poi accolto nel terzo volume dedicato alla collezione di libri d’artista dell’Accademia e hanno dato il loro assenso alla ripubblicazione – in forma qui variata – presso ikonaLíber.

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esce “asemics. senso senza significato” (ikonalíber): cenni di storia e teoria dell’asemic writing

http://www.ikona.net/marco-giovenale-asemics-senso-senza-significato/
immagine in copertina: Paul Klee, Scrittura astratta

Il libro è in stampa / The book is in print
Testo in lingua italiana / Text in Italian

Con immagini di / With images by
Rosaire Appel, Anneke Baeten, May Bery, Marcia Brauer, Axel Calatayud, Cecelia Chapman, Tim Gaze, Ariel González Losada, Michael Jacobson, Satu Kaikkonen, Paul Klee, Karri Kokko, Jim Leftwich, Arturo Martini, John McConnochie, Miriam Midley, Stephen Nelson, Laura Ortiz, Ekaterina Samigulina / Tae Ateh, Lucinda Sherlock, Jay Snodgrass, Lina Stern, Miron Tee, Cecil Touchon

—> è possibile preordinarlo qui / pre-order the book here <—

Quarta di copertina:
Questa sequenza di annotazioni, fuori da ogni ipotesi di esaustione, propone un possibile itinerario attraverso la storia delle espressioni “scrittura asemica” (o “asemantica” o “desemantizzata”) e “asemic writing”; e inoltre offre alcuni elementi di teoria che configurano l’identità di questa pratica artistica come «macchina di disorganizzazione e disintegrazione del significato ad opera del senso stesso.
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Blurb:
This sequence of annotations, beyond any hypothesis of exhaustion, draws a possible itinerary through the history of the expressions “scrittura asemica” (or “asemantica” [asemantic] or “desemantizzata” [“desemantized”]) and “asemic writing”; and also offers some theoretical elements that configure the identity of this artistic practice as «a machine of disorganization and disintegration of meaning by means of sense itself»

Più informazioni qui / more infos here:
http://www.ikona.net/marco-giovenale-asemics-senso-senza-significato/

Anteprima / preview:
https://issuu.com/ikonaliber/docs/asemics_anteprima

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/giovenale.asemics.ikonaliber

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Print edition: PREORDINARE QUI / PRE-ORDER IT HERE
E-book: soon available at https://www.bookrepublic.it/

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TABULA GRATULATORIA

L’autore e l’editore desiderano ringraziare sentitamente tutti coloro che hanno permesso la riproduzione delle opere contenute nel libro: Graziosa Bertagnin e Roberto A. Bertagnin; Giovanni Galli per le Edizioni Canova; Katrin Keller, il Zentrum Paul Klee di Berna; e gli artisti già nominati.
Una speciale gratitudine va all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo, a Enzo Patti e Toni Romanelli, che – per un incontro sulla scrittura asemica lí organizzato da Francesco Aprile nel dicembre 2019 – hanno non solo dato occasione a questo saggio di nascere, ma lo hanno poi accolto nel terzo volume dedicato alla collezione di libri d’artista dell’Accademia e hanno dato il loro assenso alla ripubblicazione – in forma qui variata – presso ikonaLíber.

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from semic to asemic: rome, swiss institute, jul. 6th, 2021

06.07.2021

From semic to asemic: writing, artists, books

Conference, Summer Schools, Roma/Online

H16:00-20:00
Entrance via Liguria 20
Live streaming

The encounter will be held in English. Limited capacity of seats.
Register here to attend the event in presence. 

The event can also be followed online on Zoom.
Register here to participate.

On the occasion of the Summer School Rome – Dimensions of the book, a project which is part of the Master of Fine Arts Program at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Istituto Svizzero hosts an encounter with the interventions by Sara Davidovics, Marco Giovenale, Giulio Marzaioli and Nils Röller.

https://www.istitutosvizzero.it/conferenza/from-semic-to-asemic-writing-artists-books/

of course the asemic is absurd / jim leftwich. 2021

If I am writing about the word “asemic”, I am thinking about patience and persistence. I am thinking about failure as a source of energy, as that which keeps an absurdist idea of enlightenment alive and almost thriving. Standing in the absurd center of the asemic universe, we are surrounded by unexamined exits and entrances, unexplored starting-points, multiple escape-routes leading out in all directions. 
We need to synchronize our watches, then throw them all away. We need to get on the same page of the same map-book, then throw all the maps away. We need to set our compasses, and throw them away. We must promise each other to get together, at some unspecified time and place, later in our lives, to define our terms and make public our consensus definitions. Until then, we have some exploring to do, some making and some thinking, some reading and some writing.
Tim Gaze wrote, in an email responding to my recent texts (05.21.2021), that “asemic is an absolute state, whereas desemantizing is a process or matter of degree”.
He also wrote in the same email that he “consciously let go of asemic writing several years back”.
On January 27, 1998, I wrote to Tim, saying “the asemic text would seem to be an ideal, an impossibility, but possibly worth pursuing for just that reason.”
Desemantized writing is not an ideal, is not an impossibility. It is a very specific kind of writing, produced for very specific reasons. To desemantize writing is to intentionally make it less readable, less capable of participating in the language-game of giving information. 
We might aspire to the absolute state of asemic writing, producing beautiful and/or provocative failures in our quest, but we achieve desematized writing, to one degree or another, whenever we choose to do so.
In response to my recent texts, John M. Bennett wrote (05.20.2021) “i like ‘desemanticized’ better than ‘asemic’ myself; the latter term was always a bit misleading, even downright wrong sometimes, I thought; except perhaps in a few situations…”
In the late 1990s, “asemic” was not the word I wanted or needed, but it was the best I had at the time. For the past 20 years or so I have been exploring alternatives to the word “asemic”. For now, and for my purposes (which are not necessarily the same purposes as those of some likely readers of this text), “desemantized” (or “desemanticized”) is an improvement, a step in the right direction. It is a provisional solution to a problem.
These days, the term “asemic writing” is very widely used, and is surely in no danger of being discarded or replaced. My thoughts about the term “desemantized writing” will circulate, if at all, within the context of the global asemic writing community. As I write this, in the late spring of 2021, the theory and practice of asemic writing are not in any sense dead, the possibilities have not been exhausted. The Sisyphean struggle to attain the absolute state of asemic writing, absurd though it may be, continues to yield moments of existential fulfillment, and perhaps every now and then even a kind of happiness. 
My hope for my recent writings is that they might invigorate an increasingly faceted vision of the world of all things asemic.

jim leftwich, may 2021

keep moving / jim leftwich. 2021

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