Robert Filliou was a French artist associated with Fluxus, who produced works as a filmmaker, action poet, sculptor, and happenings maestro.
18 Facts About Robert Filliou
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In 1943, Filliou became a member of the French Communist Party.
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Robert Filliou lived in Egypt, Spain, Denmark, Canada, and France.
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Robert Filliou died on 2 December 1987 in a monastery in Les Eyzies, France.
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In 1960, Robert Filliou designed his first visual work, Le Collage de l'immortelle mort du monde, a transcription of a random theater play comparable to a chessboard where individual experiences are expressed.
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Robert Filliou suggested that 1,000,000 years ago, there was no art.
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Robert Filliou says it happened when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water.
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Robert Filliou proposed a public holiday to celebrate the presence of art in our lives.
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In 1971, Robert Filliou created la Republique geniale where people enter its territory to develop their genius rather than their talent and research is no longer the privileged domain of the person who knows, but of the person who does not know.
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In 1973 Robert Filliou performed with Jannis Kounellis, Wolf Vostell, Allan Kaprow, and Mario Merz in Berlin at the ADA - Aktionen der Avantgarde.
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In 1974, Robert Filliou produced Recherche sur l'origine, a work made of cloth 90 meters long and 3 meters high where spectators could walk around inside.
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Robert Filliou produced video works at Vehicule in Montreal, and an obscure work done in the basement of the Pompidou.
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In 1970 Robert Filliou produced his 'multi-book' called Teaching and Learning as Performing Arts, it covers a great amount of the artist's radical ideas on participatory art making and teaching.
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Robert Filliou worked together with artists such as Emmett Williams and George Brecht.
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In 1982, Robert Filliou received the first Schwitters prize of the city of Hanover.
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In 1977, Robert Filliou moved to Canada and continued to work with video.
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Later, with his wife Marianne Staffels, Robert Filliou withdrew for 3 years 3 months and 3 days to a Buddhist center near Les Eyzies, France.
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Play and joy occupy crucial roles for Robert Filliou, who believed art making was part of a permanent, universal and endless process deeply embedded everyday life.