Poems
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Sink Stopper
By Evelyn AraluenTo stop: tinker, replace
Drain and fill
Pop the stopper
From the stove -
Belle Haleine: Eau de Voilette
By Evelyn AraluenDrain the bottle to drink her scent
named in a play of florals
Where different bodies dance in distance
in rose glass haze -
Fountain
By Evelyn AraluenExcellent I through utility
behold the humble fixtures
The water egoism – activity working
no other utility but the plumber -
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 -
The Bride
By Evelyn AraluenWanting in pieces
hanging fixed in stale time
Sky and dusked light from fragment
a structure clutters to a still point -
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 -
Rotorelief
By Evelyn Araluenmy song spins, sings
the planets each their centre
rotate each relief
so desire -
The Bush
By Evelyn AraluenSoft other abreast gaiac omphalos
From and to which to wish the swell
Eternal recurval return
Beloved be love ed -
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 -
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 -
Portrait of chess players 1911
By David Astle
In response to Marcel Duchamp's ‘Portrait of Chess Players’ 1911.
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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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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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A linè renamed
By Pascalle Burton
In response to Marcel Duchamp's 'Apolinère enameled' 1916–17.
Source text: The Essential Duchamp by Matthew Affron. -
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 -
Nude descending a staircase 1937
By David AstleStare and the cels coalesce
into streaming nudeness,
one staircascade
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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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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.
