It`s a few days before the opening of “Borrowed Sun, “Edgar Arceneaux´s recent exhibition at The Kitchen in New York,and the artist is standing over a table gallery, making a large drawing of what looks to be a hat hanging aloft in space

In harriet “Harry” Dodge and Stanya Kahn´s short video Let the Good Times Roll, 2004, a depressive, effusive woman named Lois sits un a motel room telling an unseen cameraman about a party she once attended

What if the Catch phrase “the legacy of Duchamp” did not evoke Brillo boxes, factory fabrication, Conceptualism, or any variant of the word critique? What if “Duchamp” were instead to signify that which is hand-replicated, erotic, and (to use Eva Hesse´s favorite word) absurd?