THE LAST VIDEO TAPES OF MARCEL DUCHAMP

of SANBORN John

UNITED STATES, 1976, 00:33:00

Genre : Video art
Keyword : Homage, Portrait, History of art

Summary :
In 1976, The Kitchen in New York announced a program of rare videotapes by Marcel Duchamp. These crude, shaky documents of Duchamp's Greenwich Village neighborhood were actually an elaborate performance piece, conceived and executed by Sanborn. Participants and co-conspirators Hannah Wilke, Shigeko Kubota and Russell Connor, who had interviewed Duchamp for American television in 1964, commented on the artist's prophetic genius in heralding the new medium of video. Sanborn paid tribute to the influence that Duchamp's theory of "found" art and manipulation of chance had on the development of video as an art form. Once the hoax was revealed, the art world expressed its outrage, while Sanborn just smiled.

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