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| So Many Silenced, So Many Unnamed |
Deuteronomy 22-21 “and the men of her city shall stone
her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play
the whore in her father's house”
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“Christine Walde’s Bride Machine is a limited edition
artist multiple composed of 14 folios of poetry with original artwork in a
custom-made clamshell box, inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s iconic Bride Stripped
Bare By Her Bachelors, Even, also known as the Large Glass. Composed of single
broadsides, transparencies, chapbooks, and other printed works, each folio in
Bride Machine is both a disruption and meditation on the act of reading,
challenging readers’ assumptions about the codex and the ephemeral nature of
the archive through the counter-narrative of its hinged, folded, coiled, bound
and stapled elements. Part amuse-bouches, part observation, Bride Machine is
also a rigorous interrogation of desire, the fourth dimension, conceptual
poetics, and the emancipation of Duchamp’s Bride from her apotheosis of
virginity."
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