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Calligraphic markings

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Asemic Writing & Art; a new stream of culture / Gaze,Tim; Dotremont C; Gysin B; Burroughs WS; Murray J; Leftwich J; Silvia P; Vleeskens C; Michaux H., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-41422-43407
Scope and Contents

This a critical text on asemic writing that means writing without semantic content. It is filed with Asemic magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

The Oxygen of Truth [volume 1] / Gaze,Tim ; Leftwich J ; Michaux H ; Dotremont C ; Vleeskens C., 2001

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Identifier: CC-39423-41375
Scope and Contents

Gaze explains in his introduction that his texts are improvised asemic texts which means no semantic content. Composed of writings from other languages and made up works by the artist, they incorporate writing and an infra-verbal level. Gaze notes that asemic texts have no writer-intended meaning. "If you the viewer perceive a meaning, you've created that meaning yourself." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

The Oxygen of Truth [volume 2] / Gaze,Tim ; Leftwich J., 2001

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Identifier: CC-39424-41376
Scope and Contents

Artists response to Gaze's work is published as part of "A Symposium Emerging from Tim Gaze" is added as an afterward. It was organized by JIm Leftwich and probably wholly written by Leftwich for the "Institute for Study and Application at Kohoutenberg." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001