Author: touchon
Report from St. Augustine, Trinidad – Romel Madray
Romel Madray currently is a resident of Trinidad and forms part of the South East Asian diaspora that were brought to Trinidad as indentured laborers. His first “artform” was calligraphy which he started practicing...
Report from Joel E. Swanson – ATLAS Institute – Univ. of Colorado Boulder
Unrecognizable Letterforms (Alphabits™) 2019found cereal forms, lead variablehttp://joelericswanson.com/unrecognizable-letterforms-alphabits I made this sculptural series from a box of store-bought Alphabits cereal. I pulled out any piece of cereal that was unrecognizable as an alphabetic letterform,...
Report from Australia – Maureen Alsop
Maureen Alsop sent two books from Australia for the collection, one is a book of poetry entitled Pyre (What Books Press) and a signed, limited edition (of 100 copies) print collection – a companion...
Report from Normandy, France – Christian ALLE
Since the 90’s, Christian ALLE, painter, collagist and photographer is active in the networks of mail art as a participant on various projects, but especially as publisher and animator of Nada Zero, information magazine...
Report From Queens, New York – Three “Semantic Knots” Prints by Ari Wolff
Three Prints by Ari Wolff (two original lithographs and one photocopy) from a larger investigative series, “Semantic Knots.” The series is an exploration of plastic clay knots as an asemic language, musical or movement notation,...
Report from Ireland – Michelle Moloney King
About my Asemic Writing It started as an impulse to play with mark making all over the page and the sound of “writing” on paper. My work is informed by play, the relationships of...
A Collaboration between Jim Leftwich and Jeff Crouch
Under a theme of (your choice): How we obligate ourselves to the rule of the page, or How we conduct writing as an obligation to the page, or How we limit ourselves to the...
Report from Berlin: Die Leere Mitte: Issue 7.5 – 2020
Buy a copy: https://leserpent.wordpress.com/2020/09/21/die-leere-mitte-issue-7-5/ In this special issue (see PDF): “Prosaetere” by Cecil Touchon; “Asemic: asemantic but not asemiotic” by Tim Gaze. Edited in Berlin by Horst Berger and Federico Federici.
Report from Geneva: Writing by Drawing: When Language Seeks Its Other
Through the work of nearly a hundred contemporary artists and Art Brut personalities, the exhibition Scrivere Disegnando and the catalogue Writing by Drawing explore writing’s shadow side. A terra incognita where arabesques, reiterated marks, scribblings, compulsive writings produce...