intuición estética: the first asemic writing exhibit in mexico

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Intuición Estética, muestra de escritura asémica:

A global exhibit of asemic writing, held from February 17th – March 5th 2016, at

Centro Cultural Casa Baltazar, Cordoba, Mexico.

This show was curated by Michael Jacobson, and organized by Axel Calatayud and

LUIS JAVIER RODRÍGUEZ LÓPEZ.

Special Thanks to all of the participating artists/writers!

Here is a short Youtube video of the exhibit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuCDogLxzI4

Asemic Writing: The New Post -Literate, Facebook Group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/76178850228/?ref=bookmarks


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Here is a list of asemic writers in the exhibit: Mostraremos trabajos de:

Axel Calatayud (MX),Alexander Limarev (RU),

A sgr ḿur Þo ŕhallsson (IS),

Carlyle Bekker (CA),

Christopher Skinner (UK),

Cristiano Caggiula (IT),

Denis Smith (AUS),

Edward Kulemin (RU),

EL PELELE (XX),Ethan Parcell (US),

Fabio Lapiana (IT),

Federico Federici (IT),

Francesco Aprile (IT),

Jay Snodgrass (US),

Jean-Christophe Giacottino (FR),

Jim Wittenberg (US),

Jeanette Cook (UK),

Karna Mustaqim (MY),

Lin Tarczynski (US),

Louise P. Sloane (US),

Marco Giovenale (IT),

Michel Audouard (FR),

Negutu Gheorghe (RO),

Nico Vassilakis (US),

Rosaire Appel (US),

Spencer Selby (US),Tamara Wyndham (US),

Tim Gaze (AUS),

Tommasina Bianca Squadrito (IT),

Volodymyr Bilyk (UA)


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Asemic writing show at Centro Cultural Casa Baltazar, in Cordoba, Mexico

This exhibit is a sample of writing from a global community of writers working at the edge of

illegible, wordless, or abstract writing. These tendencies have come under the umbrella termasemic writing, a term first applied by two visual poets: Jim Leftwich and Tim Gaze. They used itto describe their exploration of sub-verbal and sub-letteral forms of writing. The term asemic stems from the Greek word asemos, which means “without sign, unmarked, or obscure.” All ofthis activity has coalesced into Asemic Magazine, blogs, and groups on Facebook and Googlewhich cover asemic writing, and where many of these asemic writers in this group exhibit firstbegan to share their works. This asemic activity crosses over into many fields, such as:calligraphy, typography, visual poetry, nonsense, apophenia, undeciphered scripts, graffiti,nonverbal communication, alien writing, automatic writing, etc. It is an artform which seeks tomake the reader/viewer hover in a state between reading and looking.

Practitioners of asemic writing have probably existed since humans first began to draw with a

stick in the dirt and paint with symbols in caves. But for a modern history we can begin withHenri Michaux. In the 1920s Michaux, who was influenced by Asian calligraphy, began toproduce works which resemble writing but are unreadable in the traditional sense because theycontain no words. Michaux is widely considered to be the founding father of asemic writing,though he used the term “interior gestures” to describe his abstract calligraphy. Through thecourse of the 20th century many artists and writers such as Cy Twombly, Brion Gysin, UlfertWilke, Mirtha Dermisache, Morita Shiryu, and the French Lettristes among others, began tocreate works at the intersection of art and writing, and were influential to later asemic writers.The 20th century ended with two great works of asemic writing: The Codex Seraphinianus (anasemic encyclopedia) by Luigi Serafini, and Xu Bing’s A Book From The Sky (Tiānshū /divinewriting). What happened after the 20th century ended and the 21st began is asemic writingmerged with the Internet and personal computers; it is this fusion of ancient and modern, with

the association of the textual and visual that is attracting a great many artists and writers fromall walks of life to the unreadable.

This show will display how a few gestures from our global creative ancestors have had abutterfly effect and influence on today’s global asemic movement. Where asemic writing is goingnext is anyone’s guess, but this exhibit is an important step into the future.

Michael Jacobson Curator The New Post-Literate


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Marengo Poem by Alexander Limarev


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ASI3 by Ásgrímur Þórhallsson


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Axel Calatayud


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Carlyle Bekker


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LESTARET Asemic by Christopher Skinner


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Digitalizzato by Cristiano Caggiula


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Denis Smith


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Fill In by Edward Kulemin


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Contrato by El Pelele


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Ethan Parcell


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Asemic Schotch Tape by Fabio Lapiana


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Federico Federici


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Jay Snodgrass


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Jean-christophe Giacottino


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Jeanette Cook


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Jim Wittenberg


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Karna Mustaqim


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Light Closure by Lin Tarczynski


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Louise P. Sloane


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Marco Giovenale


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Suite Noir by Michel Audouard


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The Dialogue Of Mountains by Negutu Gheorghe


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Type Drawing by Nico Vassilakis


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Rosaire Appel


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Spencer Selby


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Pam’s Reading by Tamara Wyndham


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Tim Gaze


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Another Time by Tommasina Bianca Squadrito


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Volodymyr Bilyk


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intuición estética: the first asemic writing exhibit in mexico

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