Unfinished filliou: On the fluxus ethos and the origins of relational aesthetics

Art Journal

Volumn 69, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 44-61

  Patrick, Martin ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

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EID: 77953514780     PISSN: 00043249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00043249.2010.10791375     Document Type: Review

References (30)

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2. Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Aesthetics, trans. Simon Pleasance and Fronza Woods with Mathieu Copeland (Dijon: Les Presses du réel, 2004)
3. Claire Bishop's essays "Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics" October 110 (Fall 2004): 51-79
4. Claire Bishop "The Social Turn: Collaboration and Its Discontents," Artforum, February 2006, 179-185
5. Liam Gillick, "Contingent Factors: A Response to Claire Bishop's 'Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics" October 115 (Winter 2006): 95-106
6. Sylvie Jouval et al., Robert Filliou: Génie Sans Talent, exh. cat. (Villeneuve d'Ascq: Musée d'art moderne Lille Métropole. 2003)
7. Higgins's book Fluxus Experience (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002)
8. Thompson's essay "Responsible Idiocy and Fluxus Ethics: Robert Filliou and Emmanuel Levinas," a-r-c 5 (July 2001)
9. Sylvie Jouval and Eric Corne, "The goal of the project was . . . to offer up connections (either possible or impossible) between his work, its underlying thought process, and the work of other contemporary artists." Exhibition description, available online at www.fracidf-leplateau.com/en/index. html (consulted October 30, 2009)
10. Pierre Tilman, Robert Filliou: Nationalité poete (Dijon: Les Presses du réel, 2006). 16
11. 2007 exhibition Fluxus East: Fluxus Networks in Central Eastern Europe www.fluxus-east.eu/ (consulted October 31, 2009)
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13. "Conversation with Anny De Decker, Antwerp, November 16, 2004," in Sophie Richard, Unconcealed: The International Network of Conceptual Artists 1967-77; Dealers, Exhibitions and Public Collections, ed. Lynda Morris (London: Ridinghouse, 2009), 407
14. Jack Kerouac, Dharma Burns (New York: Signet Press, 1959), 78
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17. The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989, ed. Alexandra Munroe, exh. cat (New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2009)
18. Robert Filliou, Teaching and Learning as Performing Arts (Cologne and New York: Verlag Gebrüder König, 1970), 95
19. Jeff Kelley, Childsplay. The Art of Allan Kaprow (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004), 200
20. the exhibition website at www.e-flux.com/projects/do-it/homepage/do-it- home. html (consulted October 31, 2009)
21. David Cauchi Toi par lui et moi (Brussels: Lebeer Hossmann and Yellow Now, 1998)
22. David Cauchi Mister Blue from Day-to-Day (Hamburg: Lebeer Hossmann, 1983)
23. Clive Robertson, "Meeting a Mentor in the Making of Porta Filliou," in Robert Filliou: From Political to Poetical Economy, 57
24. Dick Higgins, foew&ombwhnw: a grammar of the mind and a phenomenology of love and a science of the arts as seen by a stalker of the wild mushroom (New York: Something Else Press, 1969), 11, 15, 27
25. George Brecht, Games at the Cedilla; or, The Cedilla Takes Off (New York: Something Else Press, 1967)
26. Anthony Huberman"Talent Is Overrated," Artforum, November 2009, 109-10
27. "Appendices, I. The Propositions and Principles of Robert Filliou," in Robert Filliou: From Political to Poetical Economy, 77-78
28. Steven Harris, "The Art of Losing Oneself without Getting Lost Brecht and Filliou at the Palais Idéal," Papers of Surrealism 2 (Summer 2004), 1
29. "In Another Country: Yoko Ono in Conversation with Rirkrit Tiravanija," Artforum, Summer 2009, 280-83
30. George Baker, "An Interview with Pierre Huyghe,"October 110 (Fall 2004): 89