Poems
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‘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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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 -
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. -
L’Opposition et les Cases Conjugées sont Réconciliées
By Evelyn AraluenI say I won’t go
and you say you won’t choose
We make games of blocking and correspondence
but cannot sustain the play -
This is a Real Poem
By David StavangerWhat’s the difference between a chocolate grinder and a poem?
The title of the poem cannot compete with cocoa.
Nor the mundane truth of the grinder. White chocolate
is the worst case of plagiarism in the last 100 years. -
what was what before anything was anything
By Pascalle Burton
In response to Eliot Elisofon's 'Duchamp Talking to People in Gallery about "Why Not Sneeze Rrose Sélavy" at "Three Brothers" Exhibition, Houston' 1957.
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 a… -
Sink Stopper
By Evelyn AraluenTo stop: tinker, replace
Drain and fill
Pop the stopper
From the stove -
Henri-Pierre Roché
By David AstleHenri-Pierre – who’s not there
in this readymade larder –
fathered Dada.
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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 -
‘Untitled (Left Arm)’, 1959
By Brian Fuata
In response to Marcel Duchamp's ‘Untitled (Left Arm)’ 1959.
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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 -
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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The Bush
By Evelyn AraluenSoft other abreast gaiac omphalos
From and to which to wish the swell
Eternal recurval return
Beloved be love ed -
whispers & kicks
By David StavangerThere's nothing quite like that fresh, clean feeling
right after a shave. But all can be ruined once you notice
clumps of sink left in dark hair. I trained as a librarian.
This is a clear transgression of boundaries. Now I’m in -
Marcel Duchamp at the age of 85
By David AstleMD at LXXXV:
shadow-cratered, and crated:
the grand MOMA moon,
who created, and catered, -
‘Draft Piston (Piston de courant d'air)’ 1914
By Brian Fuata
In response to Marcel Duchamp's ‘Draft Piston (Piston de courant d'air)’ 1914.
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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Marcel Duchamp with Pocket Chess Set
By Evelyn AraluenI’ll play the light
and pocket each memory in mourning black
There’s something to be won from a rightful step:
a consent to match -
Reunion: Marcel Duchamp, John Cage and a 1964 Château Kirwan
By Pascalle Burton
In response to Marcel Duchamp's 'Red and Black Castles (Two Maquettes for Chess Pieces for a Wall-Mounted Chessboard)' 1930.
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 … -
Nude descending a staircase 1937
By David AstleStare and the cels coalesce
into streaming nudeness,
one staircascade
built of raw spilt, sprayed
