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Asemic writing and visual poetry are inherently connected, and the relationship is symbiotic. Thus it is not at all surprising that typewriter-generated concrete poetry (ironically considered by some to be obsolete) is re-emerging in new forms and with considerable vitality in the asemic writing movement. Federico Federici is one of the master practitioners of this interesting sub-genre. (He is also contributing to my long-held theory of Neo-Concretism.) That contemporary asemic writers and artists should benefit from the triumphs of the “Golden Age” of concrete poetry is, after all, an indication of healthy cultural evolution: a balance of tradition and the iconoclastic. Working in the context of concrete poetry, Federico Federici uses type-overs (as well as some calligraphy) to generate asemic symbols and structures. I believe this is one of the most promising possibilities for the use of concrete poetry in the asemic realm: The generation of symbols and structures. Federici also interjects words – mostly nouns – to allow for some degree of “reading” and association. A nature theme emerges: “TREE,” “weed,” “wood,” “leaf,” “deer,” “stone,” etc. The work can be read, but not strictly in a conventional sense. For instance, traditional syntax is lacking yet the sign-system is intact for individual words. Poetically, the work presents a severely fractured pastoral lyric that is neither highly Romanticized nor parodied. The typewritten structure suggests linearity; however, I believe the piece requires a “depth-of-field” reading. (Both asemics and vispo require new kinds of reading.) One is directed to look into and through the dense layering (not across). Federici’s asemic-concrete composition implies, I believe, that a “text” is a dense field of accumulated meanings. Meanings can be distorted, obscured or disrupted by others. Emotional response competes with rationality. Linear (conventional) reading is misreading and misleading. True understanding of the text involves seeing into its depth and layers of possibility. The play of these layers of meaning, in turn, creates new meanings. Federici’s work, indeed, uses a randomness principle. The precise geometry of concrete poetry obscures the randomness and creates a deconstructive tension in the work. The asemic text demands a new kind of “reading” and finding meaning. Federico Federici’s work helps open new possibilities. - De Villo Sloan
Semiotica, 2024
The recognition of a pattern of abstract marks as language is simultaneously obvious and undertheorized. Contemporary "asemic poetry" splits the recognition of language from its lexicality, providing an opportunity to consider this recognition directly. It reveals the necessary intervention of an "intentional function" that justifies considering markings as if they were encoded, i.e., as language. This essential moment of sign formation in written communication typically passes automatically without the need for consideration, but asemic poetry specifically allows meditation on that point of transition, allowing the role of cultural knowledge to become apparent in its identification, as well as the Romantic heritage which rejects mechanical reproduction and automation.
… and Information Institute (HATII), at http:// …, 2007
Sharp, McKinney, Ross: Visual Text
Writing about his incentives for publishing the experimental mimeo magazine 0 to 9 (which he co-edited with Bernadette Mayer from 1967-1969), Vito Acconci wrote, ‘[A] poem was already too much like a painting (most poems could be seen at a glance, on a single page) – we wanted to move, from number to number, from word to word, from line to line, from page to page.’ In this paper I will examine how the materiality of serialized source texts were used in the early works of Acconci, who is today recognized primarily as a conceptual artist but who identified as a poet in the earlier part of his career. I will first briefly look at his works ‘Sequence: White Pages’ and ‘Contacts/Contexts (Frame of Reference)’, in which Acconci ‘wrote over’ excerpts of a phone book and thesaurus respectively. I will then focus on the poem ‘ON (a magazine version of a section of a long prose)’, which appeared in the third issue of 0 to 9 and which used the other works in the issue as raw material. I will suggest that Acconci used the phone book, thesaurus, and magazine as performance sites for his poetry by playing upon their convention as reference texts/images/objects whose institutional authority (and/or apparent banality) rests both on their materiality and the logic of serialization. By repetitively extracting from the source materials which are visible to the reader, Acconci’s particular methodology of looking and appropriating are also made apparent. What results, I will argue, are works which challenge the neutrality of the mass-produced pages as well as invite the reader/viewer to engage in infinite play with them. I will conclude the paper by comparing Acconci’s poetic strategies to those of the contemporary visual artist Alison Turnbull.
Journal of Lusophone Studies, 2020
This essay focuses on the manifestos and theoretical works of Concrete poets—primarily the German-language poets Max Bense and Eugen Gomringer, as well as the Noigandres group—examining their engagement with discourses of postwar modernity, including internationalism, design, and communication and information theory. While the movement’s programmatic texts at times proved unpersuasive or inconsistent, they nonetheless demonstrated a readiness or even eagerness to cross boundaries—both national and disciplinary—and to seek inspiration from scientific and technical fields in an attempt to articulate a new poetics suited to the modern age. Rather than see the movement’s manifestos and theoretical statements as hubristic promises that its poetry could never keep, this essay proposes that we see the poems and the programmatic texts as two parts of the same project, which claimed a place for poetry in a technologically saturated age.
2018
What do a school of poetry from the 1950s and pulsing techno beats have in common? Not an awful lot if the question is asked this bluntly, but when examined with a lens of higher definition, the underlying similarities in the desired outcomes are the matter of this paper. More specifically, this paper will regard seminal writers in the schools of concrete and sound poetry, such as Eugen Gomringer, Hansjörg Mayer, Timm Ulrichs, Ernst Jandl, Dick Higgins, Mary Ellen Solt and others, in order to compare and contrast their work and theory to one, very contemporary electronic music artist: Nicolas Jaar. So, what then are the links between Jaar’s genre and concrete poetry? This paper examines what makes both sides of the same coin “concrete”, how both sides are the opposite of metaphor and why that makes them incredibly powerful areas of art-making. Furthermore, this paper reevaluates the motivations and achievements of concrete poetry, and how these relate to the forces of contemporary electronic music, and possibly art of the future.
2015
Concrete poetry has been posited as the only truly international poetic movement of the 20 Century, with Conceptual writing receiving the same cultural location for the 21-Century. Both forms are dedicated to a materiality of textual production, a poetic investigation into how language occupies space. My dissertation, Text Without Text: Concrete Poetry and Conceptual Writing consists of three chapters: “Dirty”, “Clean” and Conceptual.” Chapter One outlines how degenerated text features in Canadian avant-garde poetics and how my own work builds upon traditions formulated by Canadian poets bpNichol, bill bissett and Steve McCaffery, and can be formulated as an “inarticulate mark,” embodying what American theorist Sianna Ngai refers to as a “poetics of disgust.” Chapter Two, “Clean,” situates my later work around the theories of Eugen Gomringer, the Noigandres Group and Mary Ellen Solt; the clean affectless use of the particles of language in a means which echoes modern advertising and...
Praktyka Teoretyczna
The article discusses the possibilities of the emergence of a neo-materialistic aesthetics of the poem. Each of the analyzed examples—Ewa Partum’s active poetry, Adam Kaczanowski’s toy-art and Andrzej Tobis’s photographic archive—reveals different aspects of this aesthetics. The case of Partum shows that the material concreteness of poetry—today also associated with virtuality— requires other ways of perceiving / commenting / documenting the “poems” happening between the media. Active poetry consists in drawing the text (which eventually turns out to be a jigsaw made of letters) out of the formula of the finished object and making the medium of writing/language the material from which the object of artistic attention is “made”. I call Tobis’s project neo-materialistic, since it shows how we move from the human hybrid level we move to normalization and stabilization (and vice versa). Tobis seems to reach the moment when this normalization is actually happening and, at the same time, ...
Unit/Pitt Projects, 2016
Future Concrete begins with a re-assessment, a looking back, to determine what is important about Concrete Poetry now. What good is it to us? What insight does it offer? What demands does it make? What possibilities were left unexplored? Instead of continuing to be told what concrete poetry was, let’s ask what concrete poetry will be. This essay offers a brief history of concrete poetry and an inquiry into its possible relevance to the present day. It was published as an introduction to a 2016 anthology featuring several contemporary poets from the US and Canada who were asked to produce work addressing the question of what a futurist concrete poetics might look like. Several of the works were included in an exhibition also called "Future Concrete: Poetics After this" (Unit/Pitt, Vancouver, CAN; 2016) curated by Gabriel Saloman.
Modernism/modernity, 2022
Luso-Brazilian Review, 2012
O artigo discute a relação entre discurso verbal e discurso visual a partir do legado da poesia concreta e neoconcreta dos anos 1950 e de sua teorização pelos poetas Haroldo de Campos, Ferreira Gullar e Kitasono Katsue. A presença da palavra escrita nas artes visuais dos anos 1960 foi frequentemente interpretada em termos da noção de "desmaterialização do objeto de arte," elaborada pelos críticos de arte Lucy Lippard e John Chandler. No entanto, ao passo que a ideia de desmaterialização descreve bem o processo que se observa na obra de artistas conceituais como o norte-americano Joseph Kosuth, este artigo argumenta que a mesma noção não dá conta do uso da palavra escrita na obra de artistas neoconcretos, tais como Hélio Oiticica. No neoconcretismo, e em grande parte da produção artística dos anos 1960, está em jogo antes o processo inverso, de materialização da linguagem no objeto de arte. No cerne desta discussão, o artigo aponta e explora a idealização da escrita ideogramática sino-japonesa por Haroldo de Campos, sua elaboração em método de composição poética e a contrapartida do concretismo na obra do poeta japonês Kitasono Katsue. O leitor -se é que ainda podemos designá-lo por este nome -desceria por uma escada, abriria a porta do poema e entraria nele. Ao centro da sala, iluminada com luz fl uorescente, encontraria um cubo vermelho de 50 cm de lado, que ergueria para encontrar, sob ele, um cubo verde de 30 cm de lado; sob este cubo, descobriria, ao erguê-lo, outro cubo, bem menor, de 10 cm de lado. Na face deste cubo que estaria voltada para o chão, ele leria, ao levantá-lo, a palavra rejuvenesça.
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