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

Oct 3, 2022
Oct 3, 2022
16 min
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/

Oct 11, 2022
Oct 11, 2022
22 min
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

Oct 19, 2022
Oct 19, 2022
20 min
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

Nov 1, 2022
Nov 1, 2022
20 min
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

Nov 25, 2022
Nov 25, 2022
23 min
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.

Jan 15, 2023
Jan 15, 2023
15 min
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

Feb 22, 2023
Feb 22, 2023
18 min
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

Apr 6, 2023
Apr 6, 2023
19 min
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

Feb 3, 2025
Feb 3, 2025
16 min
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.

