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Marcel Duchamp mis à nu par sa célibataire, même
Reading of Marcel Duchamp’s letters by Philippe Decouflé, Alice Roland and Christophe Salengro.
This reading/demonstration was created for the Festival de la correspondance de Grignan (Grignan correspondence festival) in July 2013. The public welcome made us want to begin this strange show once again. It is a reading of the correspondence of Marcel Duchamp with his friend Henri-Pierre Roché, covering the period of 1922 to 1952. Three characters are positioned around a table: Marcel Duchamp, who reads his letters; the bachelor herself, who comments, and the person outside the frame, who is in charge of accounts. The roles are flexible and sometimes mix. Although Marcel Duchamp was close to the Surrealists, his correspondence is nevertheless realistic: he covers material issues with Henri-Pierre Roché from his base in Paris or New York.
Gérald Stehr is the author and initiator of this project of Duchamp’s correspondence. He has compiled extracts, allowing us total freedom of adaptation. We have opted for real simplicity and a minimalist staging: little dance, no music, a few symbolic objects and the projection of a film by Marcel Duchamp. “Reducing, reducing, reducing was my obsession,” Marcel Duchamp used to say.
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