Dallas (2022-): Assisted Readymade (Winter 2022): Contrepeterie (Disk with Puns)

Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968)Replica of the disc Esquivons les ecchymoses des esquimaux aux mots exquis, used as a cover for S.M.S(New York), No. 2 (April 1968), attached to paper portfolio, with printed inscription “a guest + a host = a ghost Marcel Duchamp 1953”Disk diameter: 6 7/8 (17.5 cm)Portfolio size: 11 x 7 x 1 in (28 x 17.75 x 2.5 cm)Duchamp contributed a seven-minute recording of himself reading transposed letters, words and syllables. The record can be removed and played. This work was one Duchamp's last pieces. He died shortly after his SMS (Shit Must Stop) contribution. This piece directly related to earlier recordings and record-shaped artworks made by the famous Dadaist, Surrealist and father of conceptual art.Nine discs were made in 1926 to be used in the film Anémic Cinéma (Cat. 289), where they alternate with ten Discs Bearing Spirals (Cat. 286). One disc has been lost.This work is from the edition of approximately 2000 published by Letter Edged in Black Press.Please click HERE for full fact sheet
Contrepeterie (Disk with Puns), 1968 (1926)

 

Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968) 

Replica of the disc Esquivons les ecchymoses des esquimaux aux mots exquis, used as a cover for S.M.S 

(New York), No. 2 (April 1968), attached to paper portfolio, with printed inscription “a guest + a host = a ghost Marcel Duchamp 1953” 

Disk diameter: 6 7/8 (17.5 cm) 

Portfolio size: 11 x 7 x 1 in (28 x 17.75 x 2.5 cm) 

Duchamp contributed a seven-minute recording of himself reading transposed letters, words and syllables. The record can be removed and played. This work was one Duchamp's last pieces. He died shortly after his SMS (Shit Must Stop) contribution. This piece directly related to earlier recordings and record-shaped artworks made by the famous Dadaist, Surrealist and father of conceptual art. 

Nine discs were made in 1926 to be used in the film Anémic Cinéma (Cat. 289), where they alternate with ten Discs Bearing Spirals (Cat. 286). One disc has been lost. 

This work is from the edition of approximately 2000 published by Letter Edged in Black Press. 

Please click HERE for full fact sheet