Signic Temptations - Asemic writing: the latest developments

Each sign is made by two essential elements: the signifier which is a practical element perceptible by senses; the significance, an abstract element, a concept linked to it. In each sign, the connection that combines signifier and significance is the result of an agreement between the creator and the user. The signs do not exist as single units: they combine each other according to precise rules, they are organized into codes. So, the issuer and the receiver must know the code that has been used, in order to make the communication possible. The asemic writing entrance to the artistic stage caused a great earthquake which is able to shatter all the communication and language morphology rules.
Marco Giovenale, an important asemic pioneer, says: “one of the asemic writing characteristics is the dismantling of any hypothesis of structure.” The language code: phoneme - grapheme loses its symmetrical identity to a sign asymmetry, liquid that is able to self-generate without a semantic meaning. This de- semantisation leave an emptiness feeling, so that the user interprets the content. From the last century, some asemic drafts appear - Veri alfabeti asemantici - in this way Gillo Dorfles marks the French poet Henry Michaux curious filiform writings. Moreover, the art critic guides his attention on a double track: “the desemantised writings” by Tommaso Binga dated 1972-74 and the “asemantic writings” by Irma Blank dated 1974. Currently, the unexpected glimpses of linguistic blocks by Francesco Aprile emerge, thanks to the glitch technique. The Giuseppe Calandriello asemic videos are outlined by a linguistic stretch mark carried out by a phonetic short circuit. The author does some magic in disorganizing the words transforming them into primordial sounds. These are the graphic puzzles by Federico Federici. They seem to coexist thanks to the encounter of the alphabetic signs and the numerical sequences guided by inaudible vibrations. In a global village saturated by the media vice, all these verb-visual experiments represent that libertarian creativity (typical of the abstract artistic movement), able to deconstruct all the academic codes.