WAAVe Global Gallery 2021

Visual Poetry and Asemic Work by Women (Hysterical Books 2021)

Managing Editor: Kristine Snodgrass

Editors: Cinzia Farina, Dona Mayoora, Kristine Snodgrass, Nicola Winborn, Terri Witek, Tommasina Bianca Squadrito

“This is without doubt an important book. Thank you very much for sending it to me. There is so much there! I will study this book. I hope you will continue to publish similar books, or maybe make this a periodical of sorts, publish it once a year.

I am no better at predicting the future than anyone else, but I feel certain that the international community of asemic writers will increasingly serve as a powerful area for explorations and expressions by and about women. There are already threads of radical feminism in the expanded history of asemic writing and its ancestors. I haven't attempted any kind of scientific evaluation of this, but it seems to me already that much of the best work currently being produced and circulated under the umbrella of asemic writing is being done by women. If we can identify that currently as a trend, then we can probably also identify it as a characteristic of the practice. Maybe when the dust settles on all of this it will turn out that the asemic movement was yet another front in the ongoing struggle for liberation in all of its myriad variations.”

—Jim Leftwich