Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Asemic show in Malta @ The Spiril. April 18th to mid May, 2015


Exhibition of selected works from the group "Asemic Writing: The New Post-Literate". Printings of the works will be presented and a live art performance of Asemic Writing will take place. From 18:00 live music. 

The exhibition will be on until the mid-May. Free Entrance.


Big thanks to Ricky Brett for hosting the show!!!

Participants include:  Riccardo Brett,  Karen Coughlin, Christopher Vandegrift, Hâle & Gökhan Turhan, Bastien Conus, Tim Gaze, Karen Schiff,  Neutral Neutral,  M. A. Noregna,  Johannes Beilharz, Robert Swereda, Francisco Constantino,  Ben Reche, Spencer Selby, Ethan T. Parcell, Sanannda Acácia,  Gregg Simpson, Anneke Baeten, Anabel Solari, Andreas Maria Jacobs, Orchid Tierney, Roope Laine, Nguyen Van Chung, Axel Calatayud, Tommasina Bianca Squadrito, Mauro Césari, Federico Castillo, Satu Kaikkonen, Sandra Sánchez, Tero Hannula, Jesse Sioux Achramowicz, Edward Kulemin, Steve Jones, Vered Gersztenkorn, Lucinda Sherlock, Carl Heyward , Lynda Angelis, Diana Magallon, Gary Shipley, Patrick Collier, Adriana "Addy" Chávez, Eleni Zouni,
Gary Barwin,  Kevin Jackson, Willie Marlowe, Jeff Hansen, Moan Lisa, Louise P. Sloane,  Cris Cheek, Jean-christophe Giacottino, Jared Scott Cave, Nick Zhu, Ljiljana Bursac, Rosaire Appel,  Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Volodymyr Bilyk, Jim Wittenberg, Ross Ford, Marco Giovenale, Ryan Broughman, Peggy Schutze Shearn, Catherine Bennett, Ross Smirnoff, John Bennett, Denis Smith, & Nico Vassilakis

 

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Juried Exhibition: The Writing on the Wall

Exhibition Dates: June 23 - July 18, 2015
Deadline for Submission: May 5, 2015
Notification Date: May 15, 2015
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 25 from 6 - 8 pm
The Painting Center, an artist-run, non-profit gallery in the heart of Chelsea, announces a call for entries for its upcoming, juried exhibition entitled, The Writing on the Wall running from June 23 through July 18, 2015. Highly publicized and with a catalog, the exhibition will feature a diverse group of artists who are exploring text-based art. Visual art that incorporates writing engages the viewer on multiple fronts, with letters, numerals or scribbles that bridge the divide between mark making and narrative meaning. Historical examples like Egyptian hieroglyphs or Chinese calligraphy have often served more than a single purpose, including decorative, mundane and the profoundly ritual. From Cy Twombly and Jasper Johns to On Kawara and Jenny Holzer, exceptional artists have long grappled with the signification of words and numbers, which have proven fertile ground in a broadening range of contemporary art. In Mira Schor’s representations of language, Michael Scoggins’ ‘assignments’, the documentary artscapes of Loren Munk as well as graphic novels, ‘zines and the explosion of street art that started back in the day of autographical graffiti tags, we sense the synergy that occurs when text is more than just a caption to the image. We invite representational and abstract artists working in a variety of media to submit work that includes text, numerals or any form of writing.
Submission Guidelines
Digital Submission:
• Email submission to juried@thepaintingcenter.org with "The Writing on the Wall" in the subject line.
• Submit up to 5 digital images, each image measuring 200 kb or less (all images submitted should add up to no more than 1 MB total). Title jpg files with your last name, first name, and number, for example: smithjohn_1.jpg. Images submitted must be of work available for exhibition; alternate works will not be accepted. Work submitted must be 36" or less in dimension.
• Attach a completed submission form, see link to access form: The Writing on the Wall.pdf
• Send a submission fee of $35 by check or PayPal. Checks should be payable to The Painting Center and mailed to The Painting Center, 547 West 27th Street, Suite 500, New York, NY 10001. Online payments can be made through PayPal by clicking the send money tab and entering juried@thepaintingcenter.org
Mailed Submission:
• Mail submission to The Painting Center, 547 West 27th Street, Suite 500, New York, NY 10001 with Attn: "The Writing on the Wall".
• Submit up to 5 digital images on a CD, each image measuring 200 kb or less (all images submitted should add up to no more than 1 MB total). Title jpg files with your last name, first name, and number, for example: smithjohn_1.jpg. Images submitted must be of work available for exhibition; alternate works will not be accepted. Work submitted must be 36" or less in dimension.
• Include a completed submission form, see link to access form: The Writing on the Wall.pdf
• Send a submission fee of $35 by check or PayPal. Checks should be payable to The Painting Center and mailed to The Painting Center, 547 West 27th Street, Suite 500, New York, NY 10001. Online payments can be made through PayPal by clicking the send money tab and entering juried@thepaintingcenter.org
Loren Munk "American Modernism from the Armory Show", 2013
  • Juried Exhibition: The Writing on the Wall

Friday, March 20, 2015

Assembling The Morrow by Sandra Huber from Talon Books



Even though we spend a third of our lives asleep, the behaviour remains largely a mystery. Sandra Huber’s first book, Assembling the Morrow: A Poetics of Sleep, assumes that any attempt to solve this mystery requires new modes of experimentation. What happens when the line of a Berger’s wave (an electroencephalography recording of brainwaves in sleep) turns into a line of poetry, an act of focused consciousness?
The earliest readings of the sleeping brain, captured by EEGs in the 1930s, revealed that sleep is as active and lively as its daytime counterpart, not simply a passive state that naturally ensues when wakefulness ceases. Sleep not only assimilates the day that’s passed, but also looks forward, assembling what’s to come. To engage this concept, Huber sculpts a long poem onto the neural oscillations of sleep, in order to explore what is beneath them both: the conscious organism, the writer, and the written. In the field of the poem, where sleep is traditionally a metaphor for death, the idea that to be awake is to be alive is put to the test in a new kind of writing that invites a new kind of being.
Prefaced by a discussion on poetry, the science of sleep, and those who have sought a language of consciousness – from Hans Berger to Gertrude Stein – Assembling the Morrow proposes that entering the mystery of sleep requires a radical reframing of our biases on what it means to be conscious.
ISBN 13: 9780889229105 | ISBN 10: 0889229104
5.5 W x 9 H inches | 144 pages
$24.95 CAN / $24.95 US
Rights: World
Backlist | Poetry
Paperback Edition

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

From Secret Books: Raymond Queneau--Ecritures: A Limited Edition Asemic Work



Dear friends,

We would like to announce the publication of a limited edition chapbook of the asemic writings by the French author Raymond Queneau (1903 – 1976). Queaneau founded the Ouvroir de littérature potentielle (OuLiPo) in 1960 and published many highly stylised and unconventional works, some of which have been adapted for film. He also published work in pictogram form, to which the work in this book is most closely related.

This chapbook is being published by Secret Books, a new collaboration between Tim Gaze (AUS) and Christopher Skinner (UK). The books will be digitally printed on quality paper and card stocks, and individually bound in a numbered edition of 100.

Measuring 143 x 108mm the chapbook is double covered with 12 printed pages, consisting of 9 enhanced reproductions by Queneau along with new artwork by Gaze and Skinner, both inspired by the Queneau pages, and an ink portrait of the artist as a young man.

'Raymond Queneau - Ecritures' is now available to purchase worldwide through Big Cartel at just £5.00 plus P&P. You can see images of the chapbook in production at www.secretbookpublishing.wordpress.com

We hope that you can support our new collaborative venture by either purchasing a copy of this limited edition chapbook of visual material from one of France's most respected writers. Or even by spreading the word; forwarding this email or the attached PDF to others who you think may be interested, or by linking to our site from your blog, Tumblr or Twitter accounts. Please feel free to use any of the images from our site.

Kind regards,

Christopher Skinner