ZIPPOGLYPHS by Michael Jacobson

 

             

GRADIENTS by Kristine Snodgrass is Out Now @ Amazon! Post-Asemic Press #026

 

Out now from Post-Asemic Press, Gradients by Kristine Snodgrass! 

She best explains the book here:

"Gradients is a book of digital transmographications of asemics tattooed and drawn on the poet’s body. The work plays with mutations, embellishment, ritual, and collaboration with artists and tattoo artists. This book offers a moment to look at the process and images that resulted."

“Snodgrass’s Gradients is a haunting series of visual poems, examining the relationships between images and ideologies, particularly the misogynistic currents in American commercial discourse and its depictions of femininity. Asemic poems, written or tattooed directly onto the poet’s body, are photographed and then transformed by the poet through glitching. The resulting “Gradients” allow perversely fascinating visions of societal structures that emerge from obliterations of the female form. The reader is at once reminded of the ideological implications of any image, so often and so easily overlooked and accepted, as well as the role of the viewer in creating the real world effects of these implications. It is an astonishing book!” 

–Andrew Brenza

“In the twisted cosmic dance of cannibalistic energies, Kristine Snodgrass’ Gradients emerges as a frenzied feast for the senses. It devours the boundaries of perception, consuming the flesh of conventional art forms and regurgitating a psychedelic organ traffic of raw expression. Through glitched visions and asemic transgressions, it devours the oppressive structures that confine us, devouring them with insatiable hunger. Within Gradients, the body becomes an altar of consumption, where tattoos and asemic writings are etched upon the skin, merging with the very essence of existence. It is a ritual of devouring, a carnal communion with the chaotic forces that reside within. The colors bleed and merge, swirling in a cosmic maelstrom of ecstasy and despair, as the boundaries between self and other dissolve into an abyss of cosmic cannibalism. The images and collages pulsate with an unearthly vitality, drawing us into a vortex of fragmented realities. It is a visual chaos, where the grotesque and the beautiful intertwine in an intricate dance of creation and destruction. Gradients devours the limitations of perception, transcending the confines of the known universe and plunging us into the depths of cosmic cannibalism. In this swirling chaos, pain and pleasure intertwine, merging into a sublime ecstasy that defies comprehension. It is a journey into the darkest recesses of the psyche, where the primal urges of consumption and creation merge into a singular cosmic act. Gradients is a testament to the insatiable hunger of the creative spirit, a feast for those willing to abandon the safety of the known and embrace the devouring embrace of cosmic cannibalism.”

—Kenji Siratori, author of Blood Electric and Paracelsus

Product details

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Post-Asemic Press (November 15, 2023)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 64 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1736614754
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1736614754
• Reading age ‏ : ‎ 16 - + years
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.3 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.16 x 9 inches
• Price : $16.00

Gradients is available at these links:

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• Amazon Canada
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• Amazon Italy
• Amazon Japan
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Sample images from GRADIENTS:

Bio: Snodgrass is an artist, poet, professor, editor, cultural advocate, and publisher living in Tallahassee, Florida. Her written and visual works have appeared world-wide. She has collaborated with dozens of artists, writers, and musicians. She is the author of over 20 books and chapbooks most recently, GRADIENTS, forthcoming from Post Asemic Press. She founded the group, Women Asemic Artists and Visual Poets, a global network that connects women in the visual poetry field. Kristine is Associate Professor of English in the field of creative writing at Florida A&M University. You can find more about her at kristinesnodgrass.com.

12:21 Minutes of Asemic Writing & Sound Poetry by Greek Artist Tatiana Roumelioti

 

           

Asemic Writing, Collage, and Typography by Grant Guy

DESIGN TALKS: Asemic What by Steven J Fowler & Stefan Ellmer

• Date:
• 12.10. 16:30–18:00

• Location:
• Oslo National Academy of the Arts, The Main Auditorium

• Department:
• Design

 

Grzegorz Wróblewski, TOUGH GUYS FROM THE LOTOS RESTAURANT (2023)

 

GRAPHOS: Muestra Internacional De Escritura Asemica

 

Asemic: a cura di Nicolò D'Alessandro & Enzo Patti | Museo Del Disegno, 7 Ottobre 2023

Sabato 7 ottobre anche il MUSEO DEL DISEGNO di Palermo aderisce alla diciannovesima Giornata del Contemporaneo, con la mostra: A QUALCUNO PIACE ASEMIC (a cura di Nicolò D'Alessandro e Enzo Patti) degli artisti asemici: Andrea Astolfi (ITALIA), Antonio Francesco Perozzi (ITALIA), Carmen Racovitza (ROMANIA), Cristiano Caggiula (ITALIA), Donamayoora (INDIA- USA), Enzo Patti (ITALIA), Francesco Aprile (ITALIA), Franco Panella (ITALIA), Giancarlo Pavanello (ITALIA),Karri Kokko (FINLANDIA), May Bery (CANADA), Marco Giovenale (ITALIA), Mariangela Guatteri (ITALIA), Michael Jacobson (USA) , Morten Søndergaard (ITALIA), Nicolò D’Alessandro (ITALIA), Rosaire Appel (USA), Svetlana Rabey (USA), Tom Gal (ISRAELE), Tomaso Binga (ITALIA). All’inaugurazione Suoni su HANDPAN di Gaetano Rappo e le Poesie asemiche lette in chiave corporea e ritmica da Emanuela Davì.

The Choice: An Asemic Comic Piece by Texas Fontanella

 

Communication Through Asemic Writing | Olga Kulish | ATypI 2023 Paris

 

             

Asemic Collaborations with Dzenis Burzic and Texas Fontanella

 

id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism by Michael Jacobson is available now at Amazon! Post-Asemic Press #024

id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism by Michael Jacobson is available now at Amazon! 

id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism is a hand painted (with gouache and watercolor pencils) abstract illuminated manuscript. It utilizes asemic writing to tell the story of my psychological journey and final arrival into Agnostic Pantheism; the book is about going through mental hell and emerging as a spiritual survivor. id est contains 73 artworks painted with gouache and water color pencils on water color paper. This work was begun in 2021 and completed in 2023. The calligraphy in the book is rough and designed to be neo-expressive and true rather than technically perfect. The title id est means “that is” in Latin and is an homage to past and future scribes. I learned some Latin years ago to help me quit smoking cigarettes; every time I felt the urge to smoke, I would pull out my Latin dictionary and learn a few words till the craving subsided. Yet, there are no words in id est; instead, the book is filled with asemic calligraphy, mysterious figures, and abstract symbols. The book is meant to be read as a meditation even though most of the art is hectic, noisy, and urban. My intention was to take and modernize and revive the role of the scribe and demonstrates a new mode of contemporary free expression. The release of id est coincides with my 50th revolution around the Sun and is presented to the reader as a ticket to the universe and as a document of my spiritual quest.

Works that influenced my creation process are The Book of Kells, Bestiaries, a Batak Pustaha, The Codex Seraphinianus, The Voynich Manuscript, The Rohonc Codex, Mayan and Aztec painted books, Kenneth Patchen's picture-poems, William Blake's mystical illuminations, Tom Phillips' A Humument, Timothy Ely's artist books, Visual poetry, and the wilder action scribes of the asemic movement. Three artists who influenced my book are: Cy Twombly, José Parlá, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Product details

• ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CHL52X68
• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Post-Asemic Press (September 11, 2023)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 86 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 173661472X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1736614723
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.4 x 9 inches
• Price : $25.00

Here are some links to purchase id est:

• Amazon USA
• Amazon France
• Amazon Germany
• Amazon Italy
• Amazon Netherlands
• Amazon Poland
• Amazon Spain
• Amazon Sweden
• Amazon UK

Here are some sample pages:

Michael Jacobson is a writer, artist, publisher, and independent curator from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA/Turtle Island. His books include an abstract illuminated manuscript titled id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism, a prose poetry novella Somnolent Game (Post-Asemic Press), his collected asemic writing Works & Interviews (Post-Asemic Press), his autobiographical collection of senryu poems Hei Kuu (Post-Asemic Press), and his EP of sound poetry Schizo Variations; he is also co-editor of An Anthology Of Asemic Handwriting (Punctum Books). In 2019, he was written up in the book Asemic: The Art of Writing (University of Minnesota Press) by Peter Schwenger; it has an entire chapter dedicated to Jacobson’s calligraphic work. In 2013, he was published in The Last Vispo Anthology (Fantagraphics). Back in 2017, he founded  Post-Asemic Press, to publish asemic writing, visual poetry, experimental poetry, and audio recordings of sound poetry via Bandcamp. Besides writing books, he curates a gallery for asemic writing called The New Post-Literate. In 2017, he guest curated the Minnesota Center for Book Arts exhibit: Asemic Writing: Offline & In The Gallery. Other countries where he has curated exhibits of asemic writing include Mexico, Spain, and Malta. Currently, he operates Future Script Gallery, which is an online commercial gallery for asemic writing and visual poetry. In his spare time, he curates a cyberspace gallery of planets dubbed THAT: A Plan(et). Michael’s online interviews are at Poemeleon, SampleKanon, Asymptote Journal, Twenty Four Hours, David Alan Binder, GAS, Utsanga, Schizoaffective, and at Medium. In the past, he created the cover art for Rain Taxi’s 2014 winter issue. Michael also sits on the editorial board of the online magazine  SCRIPTjr.nl. In 2010, he founded and still administers the asemic writing Facebook group. Here is Michael’s YouTube channel, and here is his Fine Art America shop. 

Grzegorz Wróblewski, "ASEMIC NOTES (2023)"

 

id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism. A book trailer by Michael Jacobson

 

              

id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism is a hand-painted abstract illuminated manuscript created by Michael Jacobson. This book is about going through mental hell and emerging as a spiritual survivor. The codex utilizes asemic writing and abstract art to tell a visually poetic tale of transformation and evolution into agnostic-pantheism. It contains 73 art works painted with gouache and water color pencils on water color paper. This work was begun in 2021 and completed in 2023. It will be published by Post-Asemic Press in mid-September 2023.

Works that influenced my process are The Book of Kells, Bestiaries, a Batak Pustaha, The Codex Seraphinianus, The Voynich Manuscript, the Rohonc Codex, Mayan and Aztec painted books, Kenneth Patchen's picture-poems, William Blake's mystical illuminations, Tom Phillips' A Humument, Timothy Ely's artist books, Visual poetry, and the wilder action scribes of the asemic movement. Three artists who influenced my book are: Cy Twombly, José Parlá, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Here is some more info: https://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/2023/09/id-est-neo-scribalist-asemic.html

Click here to purchase id est at Amazon.

Michael Jacobson aka Asemic Writer is a writer, artist, publisher, and independent curator from Minneapolis, Minnesota USA/Turtle Island. He is the author of the abstract illuminated manuscript id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism, the prose poetry novella Somnolent Game, his collected asemic writing Works & Interviews, the senryu poetry collection Hei Kuu, and the noise poetry album Schizo Variations. His book publishing project for longer works of asemic writing and experimental poetry is Post-Asemic Press. Since 2008 he has curated The New Post-Literate: A Gallery of Asemic Writing.