( This flyer was given to the spectators at the place where Duchamp lived, before starting with the hike )

Homage-Hike

To Marcel Duchamp

A HIKE FROM 1743 ALSINA STREET

TO 1507 SARMIENTO STREET

October 2, 1998 - 7 p.m.

Action in charge of Juan Carlos Romero

and Fernando García Delgado

We are right in front of the place where the house where Marcel Duchamp lived in 1918  once was. For several months that year, he would often leave this place to go to his studio ot to attend a "local chess club"

"Everything that’s around me takes on the look of the Horse or the Queen, and I’m not interested at all in the world of the appearances but in their conquering or losing status transformations"

Today, we will follow the way that Duchamp did to go to his studio, with an arbitrary and hazardous hike, that will take us along Alsina Street –to the East- and once we arrive to Virrey Cevallos Street, we’ll make a left, until we cross Rivadavia Avenue. We’ll take the same street, that now has changed its name to Montevideo Street. After three blocks we'll hit Sarmiento Street which, after making a right and in almost a hundred meters, will get us to his studio, on 1507 that street. ¿How many times has Duchamp gone to his studio to work on his art? We do know that not as many times as to play chess. This was Duchamp’s way and we’ll follow it escorted by hazard, which in French language –his mother tongue- also means downfall, such a recurrent word concerning our urban actions.

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