Archivi tag: asemia

karla van vliet’s asemic writing / 2023

cheryl penn’s asemic writing

oggi e il 25 ottobre, al cipm: corsi di … “écriredessiner” (o, come neologizzavo io, “drawriting”)

les samedis 18 et 25 octobre 2025, de 10h à 13h,

Bibliothèque de poésie contemporaine du Cipm

Cycle de 2 séances de 3 heures

L’écriredessiner

Fabienne Yvert

“Mina Loy”, Liliane Giraudon

Travailler le voisinage entre le dessin et l’écriture ; ou comment l’écriture est/fait geste.
Avec, entre autre, pour guide les œuvres de Liliane Giraudon exposées au Cipm, et cette phrase de Myriam Suchet dans Sismographies du manque : Traduire, c’est mener la même exploration à travers un milieu différent. Les lignes s’agencent en lettres, les traces forment des mots. Ne pas prétendre réduire l’incompréhension ni franchir la barre de l’illisible. Plutôt cheminer avec, c’est-à-dire tout contre : […]

Inscriptions:
04 91 91 26 45 / steffen@cipmarseille.fr

al cipm, questo mese: corsi di … “écriredessiner” (o, come neologizzavo io, “drawriting”)

les samedis 18 et 25 octobre 2025, de 10h à 13h,

Bibliothèque de poésie contemporaine du Cipm

Cycle de 2 séances de 3 heures

L’écriredessiner

Fabienne Yvert

“Mina Loy”, Liliane Giraudon

Travailler le voisinage entre le dessin et l’écriture ; ou comment l’écriture est/fait geste.
Avec, entre autre, pour guide les œuvres de Liliane Giraudon exposées au Cipm, et cette phrase de Myriam Suchet dans Sismographies du manque : Traduire, c’est mener la même exploration à travers un milieu différent. Les lignes s’agencent en lettres, les traces forment des mots. Ne pas prétendre réduire l’incompréhension ni franchir la barre de l’illisible. Plutôt cheminer avec, c’est-à-dire tout contre : […]

Inscriptions:
04 91 91 26 45 / steffen@cipmarseille.fr

enzo patti: un contributo su “asemia” (da un saggio di gillo dorfles) + un’annotazione di luigi di cicco

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Da: Gillo Dorfles, Elogio della disarmonia, Garzanti, Milano, 1986,  introduzione, pag. 12.

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Dorfles individua, e comincia a seguire, le scritture asemantiche dalla fine degli anni Cinquanta. Considerava il lavoro degli scrittori asemantici come un’esigenza – e una ribellione – “incalzata” da una “nostalgia del vuoto” e da “un orrore del pieno”.
Parlava di necessità di ricreare un intervallo. In modo simile, negli stessi anni Barthes desiderava un mondo esentato dal significato, e Cage mirava a una smilitarizzazione del linguaggio.
Il numero di scrittori asemantici dell’epoca è nutritissimo e i nomi sono importanti (Tobey, Twombly, Michaux, Capogrossi, Blank, Lai, Dermisache etc), ma – nonostante questo – a metà degli anni Settanta Dorfles scriveva: “Malauguratamente solo pochissimi intendono questa necessità ‘fisiologica’ del vuoto e della pausa. La maggior parte degli uomini è ancora profondamente ancorata all’errore del pieno e non all’orrore dello stesso”.
Tuttavia il critico era fiducioso in una reazione, auspicava/preconizzava un’inevitabile presa di coscienza collettiva concludendo: “ci troviamo all’alba di una Rivoluzione Asemantica”.

Luigi Di Cicco

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post scriptum (di MG): Dorfles non poteva forse saperlo, ma quell’alba avrebbe iniziato a manifestarsi di fatto e copiosamente (lui ancora in vita) in tutto il mondo, nell’esplosione e irraggiamento, agevolato dalla rete, dell’asemic writing

/>inkednotes_241218_v / miron tee. 2024

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by Miron Tee

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tnpl / ‘asemic writing: the new post-literate’ is 15 y.o. and has now more than 27000 members

https://m.facebook.com/groups/76178850228/

ASEMIC WRITING: THE NEW POST-LITERATE, the biggest facebook group dealing with asemic writing, is now 15 years old and has more than 27000 members. (and counting).

thanks to Michael Jacobson for having created and strenuously improved it.

long live The New Post-Literate!

this is the current header image of the group and it comes from a book by Kristine Snodgrass: https://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/2023/11/gradients-by-kristine-snodgrass-is-out.html

hypergraphia / miekal and. 2024

Hypergraphia is a behavioral condition characterized by the intense desire to write or draw. Forms of hypergraphia can vary in writing style and content. It is a symptom associated with temporal lobe changes in epilepsy and in Geschwind syndrome. Structures that may have an effect on hypergraphia when damaged due to temporal lobe epilepsy are the hippocampus and Wernicke’s area. Aside from temporal lobe epilepsy, chemical causes may be responsible for inducing hypergraphia.

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

“asemic sound cycles” by félix-antoine morin [& other/older performances]

Asemic Sound Cycles at Galeri Salihara
April 10, 2022 – April 24, 2022

Asemic Sound Cycles (2022), by Félix-Antoine Morin, is an exhibition specially developed for the Salihara Arts Center (Jakarta, Indonesia). This exhibition consists of a series of graphic scores on polyester film as well as a sound installation in the center of the exhibition space.

Asemic Sound Cycles consists of a series of graphic scores on polyester film as well as a sound installation in the center of the Salihara Gallery.

Félix-Antoine Morin’s graphic scores represent existing musical forms whose basic structures are drawn from his repertoire of compositions. By this process, Morin maps out the metamorphosis of sound phenomena through a rhythmic and poetic graphic expression. He encourages the ambiguity between musical notation and pure pictorial symbolism.

The kinetic sound installation arranged in the center of the space is inspired by the “locked groove” technique, an expression invented by Pierre Schaeffer in the mid 20th century to describe this phenomenon in which the needle of a record player falls indefinitely in the same record groove. In the same way, this sound installation follows a unique circular route. This consists of a microphone that reacts like the needle of a record player on materials and textures arranged throughout the floor.

Asemic Sound Cycles is an exhibition specially developed for the Salihara Arts Center.

(from
https://whatsnewindonesia.com/jakarta/event/asemic-sound-cycles-at-galeri-salihara/)

see also:
https://www.antaranews.com/berita/2816125/pameran-asemic-sound-cycles-hadirkan-kolase-visual-bunyi-dan-gambar

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Félix-Antoine Morin’s graphic scores represent existing musical forms whose basic structures are drawn from his repertoire of compositions. Through a syncopated visual construction, by which he instinctively creates new connections between signs, he shifts the initial writing toward material abstraction. Preserving traces of the sound origin, the accumulation of elements gradually transforms each composition into an autonomous language that no longer references music.
By this process, Morin maps out the … [click to read more]

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First solo exhibition of Félix-Antoin Morin in Turkey: Asemic Sound Mappings (Feb 19th – Mar 12th, 2022):

[…] The graphic language of the artist does not tend to have a fixed meaning, leaving the interpretation of the works free to the viewer, encouraging the ambiguity between musical notation and pure pictorial poetry. The artworks at the “Asemic Sound Mappings” exhibition display layered elements moving in the void, carrying rhythm to the surface by simultaneously expressing Morin’s musical and pictorial sensibilities […]

(from http://www.karsi.com/asemic-sound-mappings-f-lix-antoine-morin)

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“asemic” in the cambridge dictionary — 30 mar 2021 / differx. 2021

This image actually means good news.

Usually the adjective “asemic” (=signless) was linked by some dictionaries to “asemia” as a pathologic failure consisting in an inability to comprehend or express words, gestures or sounds. It was not related to the idea of ‘asemic writing’.

So, …after twenty years of asemic writing movement, this ‘Cambridge turn of events’ 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, not a pathology. (according to Cambridge, at least).

stamattina, un seminario sulle forme della scrittura e del libro contemporaneo, e l’asemic writing

All’Istituto svizzero di Roma, oggi, tra poco, continua la lecture sull’asemic writing, o “scrittura desemantizzata” (come diceva Tomaso Binga e come Jim Leftwich suggerisce di dire), e su alcuni aspetti e materiali di scritture sperimentali e verbovisive. Il seminario, a differenza di ieri, è riservato agli allievi della Summer School ospitati dall’istituto, ma presto qui o su facebook pubblicherò foto dei moltissimi oggetti, libri, plaquettes, esempi di esoeditoria et alia multa di cui parlerò.

Ospiti di ieri sono stati Giulio Marzaioli per e con Benway Series, e Sara Davidovics con la performance e libro Azimut.

this image actually means “good news”

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.

(E.g. https://www.collinsdictionary.com/it/dizionario/inglese/asemiahttps://www.collinsdictionary.com/it/dizionario/inglese/asemia)

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..).

irma blank, “senza parole” (p420 gallery, bologna, 26 jan – 30 march 2013)