Installation, variable dimensions.
©image: M HKA, Courtesy Collection LAM, Villeneuve d' Ascq
Collection: Collection LAM, Villeneuve d' Ascq.
Excerpt of the conversation between Robert Filliou (RF) and Irmeline Lebeer (IL), Flayosc, France, August 1976.
IL: We were cut in the phrase where you were saying something about calling it Research in Futurology, because…
RF: It was a constant creation with themes from the future. But also a renewed questioning of the past.
IL: You said new themes were also appearing, like the ‘Genius Republic’.
RF: Like the Genius Republic, which I conceived it in that period. I think it was just a note where I said: ‘Today I spent the day thinking about the Genius Republic.’ There was also another thing, another day, but that’s just a drawing that says: ‘Genius is having followers’. It’s something I then revisited in Research on Pre-Biology, which is a work on fabric like Research on the Origin, but this time small: only 20 metres long…
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>Robert Filliou, Territory No. 0 of the Genial Republic: 9 Weeks of Research on Futurology, 1971 Installation, variable dimensions.
>Robert Filliou, Territory No. 0 of the Genial Republic: 9 Weeks of Research on Futurology, 1971
>Robert Filliou, Territory No. 0 of the Genial Republic: 9 Weeks of Research on Futurology, 1971
>Robert Filliou, Territory No. 0 of the Genial Republic: 9 Weeks of Research on Futurology, 1971
>Robert Filliou, Territory No. 0 of the Genial Republic: 9 Weeks of Research on Futurology, 1971
>Robert Filliou, Territory No. 0 of the Genial Republic: 9 Weeks of Research on Futurology, 1971
>Robert Filliou, Territory No. 0 of the Genial Republic: 9 Weeks of Research on Futurology, 1971
>Robert Filliou, Territory No. 0 of the Genial Republic: 9 Weeks of Research on Futurology, 1971
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> Exhibition: Robert Filliou – The Secret of Permanent Creation. M HKA, Antwerpen, 13 October 2016 - 22 January 2017.