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Fluxus

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:

Ample Food for Stupid Thought / Filliou, Robert; Brecht G; Spoerri D; Arman; Burroughs WS; DiPrima D; Christo; Gysin B; Higgins D; Kaprow A; Johnson R; Jones J; Knowles A; MacLow J; Paik NJ; Patterson B; Roth D., 1965

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Identifier: CC-11310-11526
Scope and Contents The texts consist of questions put to the reader, e.g. " Did it all happen suddenly? / Where do we go from here ? / What are you afraid of ? / Is life wonderful ? Why should you pay less when you can pay more ? etc "The set comes w. the title and subtitle file card, plus a masthead card, and two cards w. introductions by Daniel Spoerri, Arman, Kichka Baticheff, George Brecht, William Burroughs, Christo, Diane di Prima, Brion Gysin, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, Ray Johnson, Joe Jones, Alison Knowles, John Herbert McDowell, Jackson Mac Low, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Diter Rot and James Waring. Each card contains a short, unanswerable question. The edition consisted of 500 postcard sets of which 104 were presented in a wooden box, 396 without a box, and 492 in book format. This copy is the card set without a box. This publication has the same theme and similar presentation to Jochin Gerz's "Berkeley Oracle" an exhibition catalogue held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of...
Dates: 1965

Envelope: A Postcard / Filliou, Robert., 1976

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Identifier: CC-12645-12877
Scope and Contents

The airmail envelope has been printed to resemble a postcard. Also, designated Ecart's postcards No.3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

futura: Galerie Legitime. No.26 / Robert Filliou., 1968

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Identifier: CC-27481-28529
Scope and Contents

A note states, "A gift from Robert Filliou who in 1962 carried tiny works of art inside his hat baptized Galerie Legitime." The diagram folded along its lines forms a hat. This work was loaned to the Museum of Modern Art NYC for their exhibition, "Eye on Europe: prints, books & mutiples 1960 to now." For this exhibition, one copy was folded into a hat and stored in a papercard folder with a label. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

L'Immortelle Mort du Monde / Filliou, Robert., 1967

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Identifier: CC-13079-13374
Scope and Contents

Aphorisms are printed in a 10 x 10 grid (for 10 performers) with magic marker colors outlining the text in each square. Not referenced in Silverman Fluxus Codex. This is Filliou's first visual work: He wrote it as "Auto-Theater" in Sept. 1960 in Paris dedicated to Daniel Spoerri. The piece was performed once only in Liege (F) 1968 by 10 actors. The Something Else-print is the score for this "dynamic theater performance" that was conceived after the principle of contingency. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967