The New Post-literate: A Gallery Of Asemic Writing

Thread, acrylic, alcohol ink, ephemera, watercolor & Sharpie on designer paper, 12"x12"

Works:

1. stupid phone conversation

2. talking about myself

3. no horizons

4. yesterday, today, yesterday

5. sometimes light is unuseful

Gheorghe Marian Neguțu is a 27 years old writer, visual artist and animator from Ploiești, Romania. He started creating asemic works at the age of 4 (of course, without knowing how it was called), but stopped after learning the alphabet. At the age of 24, he rediscovered asemic writing and some fragments of himself.

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

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

Brown Asemic Painting by Rev. Al L. Aguero, Thee Uncondemning Momus

Asemic Writing by Moulisha Sarkar

From Jaguar Skins by Israel F Haros Lopez

Asemic Writing from Spencer Selby

Abraham's Offering by Kelly Price

Variations on Asemic Under Dim Lights by Marco Giovenale

Speak In A Language I Understand Lucinda Sherlock

Mayahuel Moderna by Rebekah Tarin

Abstract Asemic Comic by Gene Kannenberg Jr‎

Asemic Script from Johnny Mac‎

Recent Work from Gheorghe Marian Neguțu

Intheread by Moni Diane

From Jaguar Skins by Israel F Haros Lopez

Asemic en frottage by Harrie Verweijen

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

1 from Harrie Verweijen

Sibyl 2844 from Marco Giovenale

A Painting 2m x 2m for David Stones chapbook Trunk Notes by Cheryl Penn

More from "Jaguar Skins" by Israel F Haros Lopez

Assembling The Morrow by Sandra Huber from Talon Books