portable museum maintenance hinge

By Pascalle Burton

Published 11 August 2019

this box is an escape artist you can borrow. pry open the original copy of the arch-individualist. do not look with aesthetic eyes. create a new thought for this object. unmoor the artistic mission from its normal usage.

In 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.