Telepathic Music #2
Robert Filliou, French, 1926 - 1987
1973
Metal music stand with a piece of sheet music
Overall: 56 in. (142.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Corice and Armand P. Arman
GM.978.203.1
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Fluxus
Research Area
Fluxus
Not on view
Inscriptions
Typed: TELEPATHIC MUSIC No. 2 [centered and underlined] / dedicated but not limited to these Canadian member of the Eternal Network: / Vehicule, Montreal; General Idea, Toronto; W.O.R.K.S., Calgary; Image Bank, / Vancouver, [handwritten addition] and to Arman and to Corice, 380 W. Broadway, N.Y.C. {?}/ [centered and outlined in a box] CONCENTRATING SILENTLY / SEND WAVES OF / GREETINGS / WEATHERLUCK / MANLUCK / WOMANLUCK / TO ANY OR ALL OF THE MEMBERS / OF THE ETERNAL NETWORK THE / WORLD AROUND / [below box] Duration [underlined]: a split second to all day or all night or all day and night / (all days and nights) / Performance Note [underlined]: no proof of reaching or benefiting is necessary. Know- / ing yourself, suspecting others, to be performers of Telepathic Music is / sufficient. / suggested by Robert Fillious, ADA-Aktionen deeer Avantgarde Berlin 1973, as / part of Reasrch on the Eternal Network.
Exhibition History
20th Century Art, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 19-May 29, 1988.
A Tribute to George Maciunas (1931-1978), Beaumont-May Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 22, 1978-January 14, 1979.
Acquisitions 1974-1978, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 8, 1978-January 21, 1979.
Fluxibit, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 4-May 10, 1992.
Fluxus 25 Years, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, November 7, 1987-January 3, 1988.
Fluxus: A Conceptual Country, Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin, December 5, 1992-January 31, 1993; The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa, March 27-May 23, 1993; Institute for Cinema and Culture, February 19-21, 1993; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, September 23-December 5, 1993.
Publication History
Dick Higgins, Fluxus 25 Years, Williamstown, Massachusetts: President and Trustees of Williams College, 1987.
Acquisitions 1974-1978, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1979, p. 85.
Provenance
Corice and Armand P. Arman, New York, New York; given to present collection, 1978.
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