Poems
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Rotorelief
By Evelyn Araluenmy song spins, sings
the planets each their centre
rotate each relief
so desire -
Stair/Case
By David StavangerTo cast myself on a wall
I literally had to stop time
let the staircase ascend my body
like a dream I had where I forgot -
The Chess Game
By David StavangerMy son and I play chess
every morning during his custody visits.
We’re willing to sacrifice our queens, putting
them aside for the duration of the exchange. -
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 -
First papers of surrealism
By Alex GallagherCraters dug coarse into unblemished skin
like sun spots convulsing along the surface
new holes erupt with violence and spew forth
I touch the ground and sink deeply into the fissures -
'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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Chocolate grinder (no 1)
By Alex GallagherBittersweet spiral with machine-made lungs
the whirring hum of a nascent grind
swivel of drums oscillating in time
like the saccharine pirouette -
Portrait of chess players 1911
By David Astle
In response to Marcel Duchamp's ‘Portrait of Chess Players’ 1911.
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La septième face du dé – Georges Hugnet
By David Astle1,2 – parlez vous?
3,4 – geste d'amour
5,6 – baguette sticks
7? Quoi? Sept? -
The imagery of chess
By David Astle‘Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.’
- Marcel Duchamp
QUEEROOKN -
A linè renamed
By Pascalle Burton
In response to Marcel Duchamp's 'Apolinère enameled' 1916–17.
Source text: The Essential Duchamp by Matthew Affron. -
‘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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looking augments itself (On Critique by Dave Beech plus Anémic Cinéma)
By Pascalle Burton
In response to Heinrich Hoffmann's 'Portrait of Marcel Duchamp' 1912.
Source text: ‘On Critique’ by Dave Beech in Art Monthly, February 2016. -
Please touch (what do you suggest?) or Woman's work is never
By Pascalle Burton
In response to Man Ray's ‘Duchamp as Rrose Selavy’ 1921–26.
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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Nude descending a staircase 1937
By David AstleStare and the cels coalesce
into streaming nudeness,
one staircascade
built of raw spilt, sprayed -
The bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even (The green box)
By David AstleNine men in a pane
of their own,
Abstracted, distracted,
foiled at her throne. -
The box of 1932
By David AstleSoon, when I suffocate
in letters, and sisters
sift my so-called estate,
you can presume -
linchpin (this is a portrait of my mouth if I say so)
By Pascalle Burton
In response to Marcel Duchamp's 'Portrait of the artist's father' 1910.
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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Hypermodern Summer, 1940: Beckett cheese/Pocket chess
By Pascalle Burton
In response to marcel Duchamp's 'Pocket Chess Set' 1943.
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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portable museum maintenance hinge
By Pascalle BurtonIn response to Marcel Duchamp's 'The Box of 1914' 1913–14.
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.
