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That Ubu that you do

Author : marcelduchamp_admin Unpublished poster of the meeting. This concert of electronic music was organized around a game of chess between Marcel Duchamp and John Cage at the Toronto Ryerson Institute (Canada) on March 5th, 1968. Image Source

“(Alfred) Jarry’s legacy was formalised posthumously in 1948 by the founding of the Collège de ‘Pataphysique in Paris. Its constitution asserts that all people are ‘pataphysicians whether they know it or not, but paid-up Collège members have included artists… Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Jean Dubuffet… And its precepts have produced music more interesting and challenging than Maxwell’s Silver Hammer.

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