Kevan Jenson’s Hacking Duchamp

Artist Kevan Jenson mixes memoir and art history in an unauthorized but virtuous journey through the world of Marcel Duchamp. Kevan’s Givens: 1. Nothing we perceive in art is wrong 2. We are free to exploit anything we find there please visit www.kevanjenson.com

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Episodes

A Night In Lompoc

Monday Oct 03, 2022

Monday Oct 03, 2022

The inaugural episode!
 a/b text on scan 55:
https://documents.pub/document/marcel-duchamp-the-green-box.html
"With Hidden Noise"
https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/51541
 
Music by Eric Glick Rieman  "Transactional Dread" "Plying" https://www.ericglickrieman.com/
 
 

Tacos Nicely

Tuesday Oct 11, 2022

Tuesday Oct 11, 2022

A trip to Mexico, where we meet my cousin Alfredito and his father Alfredo Cardona
Trebuchet
Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne
Music:
Eric Glick Rieman: "Plying"  ~ prepared Rhodes electric piano and effects
Bilge: The Now Sound Of San Francisco:
"Coagulated Ephemera From Lucy's Relativist Period"
~ personnel:
Robin Walsh: guitars, effects
Len Patersen: samples, guitars, effects
Eric Glick Rieman: samples, synths, tapes, melodica, harmonium
David Slusser: samples, alto saxophone, bass clarinet, theremin, Sluss-o-matic
Dave Mairs: drums and turntable
 
 

Shimmering

Wednesday Oct 19, 2022

Wednesday Oct 19, 2022

Marxist vs Mystic via Duchamp's Pharmacie
 
Pharmacie
Sad Young Man On A Train
Alvaro Cardona
 
tracks: Eric Glick Rieman
Plying  ~ Prepared Rhodes electric piano and effects
Apricot Calling ~ Modular Synthesizer
I Keep Ruminating ~ Prepared Rhodes electric piano and effects
I Hear You And Pretend Not To Listen ~ Prepared Rhodes electric piano and effects
 

Pneumatic

Tuesday Nov 01, 2022

Tuesday Nov 01, 2022

Fill her up, Phil Hartman and filigree!
 
Étant Donnés
Paris Air
Newsradio's Titanic
Dust Breeding
Duchamp's haircut
The Green Box
 
Music:
Eric Glick Rieman
variously prepared Rhodes piano, electronics, piano, percussion, effects
tracks:
Plying, I Keep Ruminating, I Hear You and Pretend Not to Listen, Apricot Calling, and For The Likes Of You, Only Hell Will Do
 
Bilge
track:
Centrifugal Farce  from the album Starlight Serenade, 1997
 
personnel:
Robin Walsh: guitars, effects
Len Patersen: samples, guitars, effects
Eric Glick Rieman: samples, synths, tapes, melodica, harmonium
David Slusser: samples, alto saxophone, bass clarinet, theremin, Sluss-o-matic
Dave Mairs: drums and turntable
 
 

Pregnant Pauses

Friday Nov 25, 2022

Friday Nov 25, 2022

A helix sport, an early Duchamp painting, and Theresa Cha.
 
Peter flying in 1978
Hang gliding in National Geographic
Duchamp's Portrait of Dr. Dumouchel
Étant donnés (see inner view)
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Nyx smokepainting
 
Music: Eric Glick Rieman
keyboards, effects, prepared Rhodes electric piano, modular synthesizers and various noises.
Tracks: Plying, A Pint of Ice, Apricot Calling, I Hear You and Pretend Not to Listen, I Kept Ruminating, People Turning Into Buildings and For The Likes Of You, Only Hell Will Do.
 
 

Little Piece of Satan

Sunday Jan 15, 2023

Sunday Jan 15, 2023

Episode 6 revolves around Duchamp's Objet Dard.
Please also review these images:
Duchamp's Etant donnes the door and interior also here
My painting Abendland on page 35 of the linked catalog
Duchamp's Tu'm , Trebuchet and Fountain
Music: Eric Glick Rieman
keyboards, effects, prepared Rhodes electric piano, modular synthesizers and various noises.
Tracks: Plying, A Pint of Ice, I Hear You and Pretend Not to Listen, I Kept Ruminating, Collecting Light
Solo muted trumpet: Marcel Jenson
Martin Luther - Lucas Cranach

The Maria Experience

Wednesday Feb 22, 2023

Wednesday Feb 22, 2023

Duchamp and I obsess over our respective Marias
Links:
Maria Martins
James Hillman
Jacqueline Matisse
Albigensian Crusade AKA Cathar Crusade
W. S Merwin's The Mays of Ventadorn
Images
Black Maria Shrines
Maria Magdalene
His Twine! (Duchamp's work at first Surrealist expo in US)
Magdalene's Relics
Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne
Étant donnés interior structure
Music: Eric Glick Rieman
keyboards, effects, prepared Rhodes electric piano, modular synthesizers and various noises.
Plying, The Collection Room, I Kept Ruminating, I Hear You and Pretend Not to Listen,
Recognition of Faces
Pocit Samba track
Soho Grand Hotel

The Wilds

Thursday Apr 06, 2023

Thursday Apr 06, 2023

Hermes, Ducats, BBQ and Eschatology.
Hermes on a wall in Pompeii
Images: 
Young Girl and Man in Spring
Paris Air
Monte Carlo Bond
Einstein's letter to FDR
A Burial at Ornans
The Death of Marat
Hermes from Pompeii
The Origin of the World
Étant donnés
 
Music: Eric Glick Rieman
keyboards, effects, prepared Rhodes electric piano, modular synthesizers and various noises.
Plying, The Collection Room, I Kept Ruminating, I Hear You and Pretend Not to Listen, Recognition of Faces, Only Hell Will Do

Inner Cosmology

Monday Feb 03, 2025

Monday Feb 03, 2025

Inner Cosmology
Recent smoke painting
 
Jung tome
Dino Saluzzi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_object
102 & CPW
Swami Muktananda
Sudden Impact
1980 Chevy Caprice Classic
Judd Hirsch
Duchamp-Jura background
Duchamp and the Picabias
Duchamp with reverse comet shaved into his hair
 
 
Music: Eric Glick Rieman
keyboards, effects, prepared Rhodes electric piano, modular synthesizers and various noises
also solo piano revival improv
Plying, The Collection Room, I Hear You and Pretend Not to Listen, Recognition of Faces, People Turning Into Buildings, Her Painted Frame, Only Hell Will Do, A Pint of Ice, Intangible Planet.

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