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May 21, 2020
Art In America review of Asemic: The Art of Writng by Peter Schwenger
Magazine: The Cut-Up Asemics & The Cecil Touchon Asemic Reader
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GoFundMe for the Asemic Arts Expo in Mogliano Veneto, Italy | Curated by Ricky Brett
Ricky Brett is organizing this fundraiser.Click here to donate.
My dear friends and I have decided to organize the first Asemic and Light Language Gallery in our area, Mogliano Veneto, Italy.
We have gathered 32 artists from all over the world and want to give them a chance to make their name and art known. We were doing pretty fine until this Covid crisis started and now we are truly struggling to have everything set and running! We have only one month left before the opening so that's why we've decided to seek for help on this platform.
If everything goes well, the gallery will be open from the 5th to the 21st of June. No matter what, we will also organize a 3D Tour. For donations over 30Eu we will send you the printed catalogue with all the works on display!
We need the support of art lovers! We can't surrender our passion to this invisible enemy and to fear!
With your help we will manage to make this dream come true!
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April 28, 2020
Durch/Through by Thomas Havlik available now from Hesterglock Press!
With durch/through Thomas Havlik has channeled Henri Michaux and created a microscopic bestiary which writhes just on the boundaries of reverie, grasping grasps for meaning and searching for syntax. durch/through is a linguistic fever-dream; read and let your eyeballs squirm.— Derek Beaulieu
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I received some great new books from Paul Hawkins and his Hesterglock Press recently. Among the books was this raw calligraphic gem Durch/Through by Thomas Havlik. "Dada calligraphy" was my first impression upon digging through the pages of the book. Then once I ventured farther in, the gestures in the work seemed to exorcise out the art spirit(s) dwelling on the paginal cave walls. The lines of writing at first come across as simple childlike gestures, but then they give way into a powerful compendium of rough soul scripts. I like that this book of calligraphic writing allows me to find something new or forgotten along the journey as I travel among the leaves. The asemic or asemantic writing of Durch/Through gives the illusion of change but remains static as a foundation for thoughts and creativity, and only evolves in the reader's mind as intuitive glances into the totality of human experience/trauma. This book returns to the origins of writing, but it also successfully dwells in early 21st century Internet scribbling culture currently everywhere on and offline. Letters are teeth that we use to eat life; in Durch/Through the slightly legible letters and coarse lines are masticating thousands of years of human literary endeavor and leaving nothing but honey.
durch / through
Thomas Havlik
13 x 20 paperback 2019
ISBN: 9780368359965
156 pages
Purchase Durch/Through here at Blurb.
Thomas Havlik's works of abstract calligraphy are impossible to describe with words, so here are some sample pages from Durch/Through :
Thomas Havlik, born 1978, in Scheibbs, Lower AustriaCurrently living and working in Vienna. Autor, works on the boarders of sound- visual and performance-poetry. Many Publications in Literaturemagazines, in Text and Audioanthologies and on Radio. On stage he´s combining voice live-processings with prepared micropieces of letters, alphabetic strings, phonems and textsnippets. co-editor of the vienna based online soundpoetrymagazin “huellkurven”, dedicated to sound poetry, poésie sonore, lautpoesie, noise poetry, sound-text composition, audiditve poesie etc.Employment with the Dadaists, Surrealists, Futurists. Confrontation with the Vienna Group and its view of language as a material. I was subsequently fascinated by the artistic possibilities of electro-acoustic processing of speech. Henri Chopin, Jaap Blonk and Lettrists. Since then I have attempted for my own approach that connects the poetics of space, light and movement. Emphasis on sound poetry, performance and radio work in contrast to the conventional writing...
