Porta Filliou

from Robert Filliou: From Political to Poetical Economy, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1996 (image and quote from Porta Filliou, video, 1977)

Galerie Légitime (Robert Filliou's hat)

( Galerie Légitime, ca 1962-1963 / Galerie Légitime, serigraph, Galery Wilbrand, Cologne, 1969 / Galerie Légitime, ed. Hansjorg Mayer, Stuttgart, 1969 (exhibition poster that folds into a paper hat) / The Frozen Exhibition, ed. VICE-Versand, Remscheid, 1972 / still from 1977 video Porta Filliou/ Filliou c. 1964)

Inside my cap, on top of my head, I had small works of mine---at that time I used to make things where I used measurements, or I mummified them. Then in the streets of Paris I would walk through the streets, and I would come up to someone and a typical dialogue might be: "Are you interested in art, monsieur or madame?" and if they said, "Yes, yes," I would say: "Well you know I have a gallery." And if they expressed some interest I would say: "Here it is." There inside my hat were the works. They were perhaps a little bigger than this grape. And then we would look at the works.
So with the Galerie Légitime I could go through the streets, I could go also inside houses and other buildings, and many things happened to the Galerie Légitime. For instance, when I was in Germany with another version I lost it, so I went around Frankfurt looking for my gallery. At another time my gallery was stolen.

-Robert Filliou (transcribed from Porta Filliou, video, 1977)

from Robert Filliou: From Political To Poetical Economy, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Univeristy of British Columbia, 1994

Robert Filliou: Editions and Multiples, les presses du reel, Dijon, 2003

Fluxus, Thomas Kellein, Thames and Hudson, London, 1995

previously here and here

George Brecht & Robert Filliou

from Games at the Cedilla or the Cedilla Takes Off by George Brecht and Robert Filliou, Something Else Press, 1967

(until I find a copy of my own, these are from photocopies I made ages ago)

see also: Robert Filliou: Mister Blue From Day-to-Day

Robert Filliou: Mister Blue From Day-to-Day

Mister Blue From Day-to-Day by Robert Filliou, Edition Lebeer Hossman, Brussels, 1983

Filliou wrote this book for his two children in 1963, but it wasn't printed until 1983 (now for his granddaughter). Illustrated by Dieter Roth, Robert Filliou, Stefan Wewerka, Bjorn Roth, Jan Voss, Emil Schult, and Andre Thomkins. English and German text. Edition of 1000 copies.

One very, very hot Wednesday afternoon, Mister Blue walked fully clothed into the sea, lied carefully on his back, and went to sleep, his hat over his face. Actually, he hadn't meant to fall asleep. Wednesday is the day of the week when Mister Blue cures small children of the fear of water, and he had walked into the sea to teach example.
And soon he began to dream...