Marcel Duchamp and the Architecture of Desire

Constructing Indeterminacy: A Détournement of Didactic Models

“…Like Duchamp, Chard is a 'defrocked Cartesian'; his work reconstructs the imagination through drawing to test the boundaries between reality and its aesthetic and philosophical possibilities with playfulness, but also a heightened need for precision. 5 The intentionally elaborate design and didactic appearance of his drawing instruments invites us to bring our own speci city. He sees the creation of ambiguous objects that play a game of seduction with their viewers, inviting them to complete the work, as his main debt to Duchamp.…”

C for CAMERA OBSCURA (REVERSED)

“…Most of this research can be found in Marcel Duchamp and the Architecture of Desire a book that also traces the links between his work and architectural thinking. 3 I will not focus on the brightly lit assemblage, however, but on the door that separates it from the viewer and the space immediately in front of it -not on what lies behind the door, but in front of the door: the space outside Given. 4 Most of the analysis that ensues goes back some 17 years, but some new thoughts were triggered, through recent conversations with the artist Serkan Ozkaya.…”