INTERZONA Project: Collab by Rosaire Appel & Ferran Destemple

 

Asemic visual poetry collaboration by Rosaire Appel (New York City, USA)

& Ferran Destemple (Barcelona, Spain)

 

 

Ferran Destemple's highly original INTERZONA project is running concurrently with AF2. I am planning on - at least partially - documenting INTERZONA pieces as they become available. Today's entry is an extraordinary collab by the widely acclaimed asemic writer Rosaire Appel and Ferran.

My deepest thanks go to Rosaire Appel and Ferran Destemple for granting AF2 permission to share this work. Rosaire Appel is a "must-see" and "must follow" artist for all those interested in asemic writing, visual poetry, abstract and conceptual art and related genres.

Please visit Rosaire Appel's blog if you have not already. I guarantee you will be impressed and enlightened. Rosaire is a figure with whom all of us in the international community should keep current:

https://rosaireappel.blogspot.com/?fbclid=IwAR0IKvw_JMAwJyD-elI9LE_5JuI17sIfP9SltN971-YqMYbPdfB3BXTn8n0

INTERZONA has a deep affinity with Asemic Front. First, it is an homage to William S. Burroughs and his real-imaginary world of Interzone (Anglo spelling), the cut-up technique and Burroughs' fascinating theories of organic consciousness transfers, soul migration, infestation by alien entities, mutation, exemplified in the widely known Burroughs adage: "Language is a virus." Ferran Destemple uses the fascinating concept of works being invaded by Interzone as a basis for the collaborative process as well as a metaphor. The Soft Machine in particular is a center for Ferran's concept.

Detail of collaboration by Rosaire Appel & Ferran Destemple

William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin are important figures in the asemic writing movement, especially revered here at Asemic Front. Ferran Destemple's full title of the collab is "The Alphabet of Uncle Bill's Soft Machine infects Rosaire Appel."Thus, Burroughs becomes a spirit collaborator in these pieces. A tremendous innovation for asemic and vispo collab!