Poems
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With Hidden Noise
By Evelyn AraluenThis burnt out neon clack is to carry
a fire a long free sea
It’s fine and cheap and here
where deserts provide and unravel apart -
Interior, Arensbergs’ Apartment, New York
By Alex GallagherThe body edges against its tensions
each motion captured disrupting the rhythms
as ambiguous sinew stretches out and over
in that frenetic gesture of human autonomy -
'Marcel Duchamp's Installation "Lazy Hardware," Gotham Book Mart, New York', early 1960s
By Brian Fuata
In response to Maya Deren's 'Marcel Duchamp's Installation "Lazy Hardware," Gotham Book Mart, New York’, early 1960s. -
From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy (Box in a valise)
By Alex GallagherHow one compacts and compartments
a living body of work, beaten and breathing
two lives half lived sitting neatly in a briefcase
wrapped up in leather, untethered by its brevity -
SixteenMilesofString
By David Stavangerbillyidol--catcradle--riflecartridge--composite--taut--evensquare
ficelle--learnerpermit--johnhughes--buddy--thepoweroftwo--onemile
ageofconsent--igaveitaway--prickafinger--caughtfire--donatebloods
chesspawns--wholeballroom--myersbriggs--wakinghours--thetowercard -
‘going against’ is pleasurable as pleasure
By Pascalle Burton
In response to Marcel Duchamp's 'Female fig leaf ' 1961 (cast of 1950).
See the artwork that inspired this poem in the flesh, along with more than 100 of Marcel Duchamp’s world-renowned pieces, in ‘The Essential Duchamp’ exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 27 April – 11 August 2019.
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Henri-Pierre Roché
By David AstleHenri-Pierre – who’s not there
in this readymade larder –
fathered Dada.
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Nude descending a staircase 1937
By David AstleStare and the cels coalesce
into streaming nudeness,
one staircascade
built of raw spilt, sprayed -
Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Sélavy
By Alex GallagherEros by any other name arrested
distill those androgyne words of love
to spill like ink and ignite and expire
without language to (s)peak of — -
Buenos Aires does not exist
By David Stavanger?
I have never boarded a steamship.
The closest I have been to Buenos Aires is an amazing steak
at the local. I sleep in the city that sleeps. -
A Poster within a Poster
By Alex GallagherWhat seems obvious now
is that most artists would make better conmen —
to make art is no different from running
a complex pyramid scheme -
Sink Stopper
By Evelyn AraluenTo stop: tinker, replace
Drain and fill
Pop the stopper
From the stove -
'Church at Blainville', 1902
By Brian Fuata
In response to Marcel Duchamp's 'Church at Blainville' 1902.
See the artwork that inspired this poem in the flesh, along with more than 100 of Marcel Duchamp’s world-renowned pieces in ‘The Essential Duchamp’ exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 27 April – 11 August 2019.
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'Installation View of Exhibition "First Papers of Surrealism"', 1942
By Brian Fuata
In response to John D. Schiff's 'Installation View of Exhibition "First Papers of Surrealism"' 1942.
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'Bicycle wheel' (replica of 1913 original), 1964
By Brian Fuata
In response to Marcel Duchamp's 'Bicycle wheel' 1964 (replica of 1913 original)
See the artwork that inspired this poem in the flesh, along with more than 100 of Marcel Duchamp’s world-renowned pieces in ‘The Essential Duchamp’ exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 27 April – 11 August 2019.
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Dart-Object
By Evelyn AraluenIf you’d known what and where I was leaving
from the pieces fallen slack by the mould
Desire might invite key or lock
or tempt you to hold objects in the dark -
The imagery of chess
By David Astle‘Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.’
- Marcel Duchamp
QUEEROOKN -
Portrait of Dr. Dumouchel
By Alex GallagherLuminous skeletal
transfer your transparence
Won’t you rip open that ribcage and show -
Catalogue This
By David StavangerCover of deluxe edition of "Sur Marcel Duchamp" by Robert Lebel (1958, Our Lady of Desire)
Support archival barriers^^. Material to place between
object and viewer^^: vitrine, (curios)ity, clear labels.
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