Translanguaging in asemic writing: a metric space approach

The talk will explore the interconnectedness between language, mathematics, and physics, drawing parallels between concepts such as metric spaces in mathematics and the fabric of spacetime in physics, as well as their analogies in linguistic structures. It will address how languages are viewed as relational schemes, emphasizing the importance of understanding the relationships between symbols rather than their individual content. The discussion of topics such as code-switching and translanguaging, respectively in the field of [visual] multi-language poetry and asemic writing, aims to highlight how these practices may challenge conventional notions of linguistic boundaries and signification, ultimately influencing the perception of the world through the synthesis of competing linguistic structures.

LangueFlow’s Multea Roundtable, organized by Prof. Johanna Domokos (Bielefeld University and Károli Gáspár University Budapest), Dr. Marianna Deganutti (Slovak Academy of Sciences), Dr. Jana-Katharina Mende (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg), Dr. Sabira Ståhlberg (Independent Scholar & Polyglot Writer). 29/04/2024, 15:30 CET (Budapest, Berlin, Rome), 16:30 EET (Cluj-Napoca/Koloszvár), 9:30 EST (New York).

Suggested readings:

• Homepage
• EIS
• Biophysique Asémique
• Demagnetized tapes
• A private notebook of winds
• This is it
• Instagram

Die Leere Mitte – Issue 20

In this issue: Nico Vassilakis, Yuan Changming, Stephen Bett, Mykyta Ryzhykh, Johannes S. H. Bjerg, Antonio Syxty, Steffen M. Diebold, Richard Hanus.

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Edited in Berlin by Horst Berger and Federico Federici.

Documents on Research Catalogue

THIS IS IT, Sprachkunst von Arnold Dreyblatt, Federico Federici, Nauka Kirschner; Dr. Friedrich W. Block curator, Kunsttempel, Kassel, 19/10-19/11/2023; documents: Research Catalogue; videos: Language to [Dis]Cover the Page; Objects Under Investigation; download: Artist’s Talk at Kunsttempel.

THIS IS IT – Pictures from an exhibition – Kunsttempel, Kassel

„THIS IS IT“, Sprachkunst von Arnold Dreyblatt, Federico Federici, Nauka Kirschner; Dr. Friedrich W. Block curator, Kunsttempel, Kassel, 19/10-19/11/2023.

Language to (di)scover the page (To Vito Acconci) – Kunsttempel, Kassel

„THIS IS IT“, Sprachkunst von Arnold Dreyblatt, Federico Federici, Nauka Kirschner; Dr. Friedrich W. Block curator, Kunsttempel, Kassel, 19/10-19/11/2023.

KUNSTTEMPEL – Lunar Phases

„THIS IS IT“, Sprachkunst von Arnold Dreyblatt, Federico Federici, Nauka Kirschner; Dr. Friedrich W. Block curator, Kunsttempel, Kassel, 19/10-19/11/2023.

What does it mean to “read” (aloud? silently?) a (partially) asemic piece?

KUNSTTEMPEL – Flowchart of a pensive linotype

„THIS IS IT“, Sprachkunst von Arnold Dreyblatt, Federico Federici, Nauka Kirschner; Dr. Friedrich W. Block curator, Kunsttempel, Kassel, 19/10-19/11/2023.

What does it mean to “read” (aloud? silently?) a (partially) asemic piece?

Objects under investigation – Kunsttempel, Kassel

„THIS IS IT“, Sprachkunst von Arnold Dreyblatt, Federico Federici, Nauka Kirschner; Dr. Friedrich W. Block curator, Kunsttempel, Kassel, 19/10-19/11/2023.

SLIDES DOWNLOAD: Objects under investigation

Die Leere Mitte – Issue 19

In this issue: Enrico Sette, Volodymyr Bilyk, Werner Preuß, Mark Young, Rebecca Pyle, Patrick Sweeney, Ellen Harrold, Joshua Sabatini, Sean Beckett, Jasper Glen, B. H. F., Elmedin Kadric, Nathan Anderson.

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Edited in Berlin by Horst Berger and Federico Federici.

Human Animals

Insects are poetic in themselves, Fossil-leaf script, «Superpresent», Duncan Forbes editor, volume 3, n.4, Fall 2023.

‘People are bloody ignorant apes.’ Estragon in Waiting for Godot

One wonders what the world would be like without humanity and what human nature would be without human nurture. And one also wonders what the world would be without god or gods. It took the human animal, the self-named homo sapiens, a remarkably long time in its evolution for Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace to come up independently with the theory of evolution and to argue that we were descended from the apes.