{"id":14179,"title":"Work as Play, Art as a Thought","dimensions":"28 x 196 x 2 cm","date_begin":"1973-01-01","material":"ink, paper, wood","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":105,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":2,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection MAC, Lyon","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":12,"permalink":"work-as-play-art-as-a-thought","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Assemblage","nl":"Assemblage","fr":"Assemblage"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/033/299/large/2016_Filliou__5.jpg?1476275870","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA, Courtesy Collection Mac, Lyon","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcerpt of the conversation between Robert Filliou (RF) and Irmeline Lebeer (IL), Flayosc, France, August 1976.\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRF:\u003c/strong\u003e \u0026lsquo;Work as Play.\u0026rsquo; We have two photos. We\u0026rsquo;ve already talked about this under \u0026lsquo;Genius Republic\u0026rsquo; and \u0026lsquo;Principles of Poetical Economy\u0026rsquo;, and I illustrated it with some works. There\u0026rsquo;s one that\u0026rsquo;s almost a classic: \u003ca href=\"http://ensembles.org/items/i-hate-work-which-is-not-play?locale=en\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eI Hate Work Which Is Not Play\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e [1970]. I made this construction while playing. And there\u0026rsquo;s another one that I\u0026rsquo;ll also find a photo of: \u003cem\u003eWork As Play, Art As Thought \u003c/em\u003e[1973]. One refers to the other. We spoke about it so much that it\u0026rsquo;s enough to put in references. I pulled out the photo the day before yesterday, but I don\u0026rsquo;t find it now. It\u0026rsquo;s somewhere in this room.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRF:\u003c/strong\u003e No, I say we\u0026rsquo;ll just make a reference. I\u0026rsquo;ve made so many games. There are two sides to the games: there\u0026rsquo;s the method, \u0026lsquo;Work as Play\u0026rsquo;, that you find throughout my activities. Lambert has written a whole book about ludic activities, his book about \u003cem\u003earteurs\u003c/em\u003e [\u0026lsquo;artors\u0026rsquo;]. He has a whole chapter about my work. In \u003cem\u003ePrinciples of Poetical Economy\u003c/em\u003e you also find \u0026lsquo;Work as Play\u0026rsquo;.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; There\u0026rsquo;s that side. But then there\u0026rsquo;s also the side of really making games. \u003cem\u003eLe Jeu du moi \u003c/em\u003e(\u003cem\u003eThe Game of Me\u003c/em\u003e), for example, is a game with dice. I think I might have made it with [Karl] Gerstner, in 1960 or 1961. There are five dice. On each face of the dice, however one throws them, it says \u003cem\u003eje = moi\u003c/em\u003e [\u0026lsquo;I = Me\u0026rsquo;, or \u0026lsquo;Game = Me\u0026rsquo;]. Because it\u0026rsquo;s the same letters on all the faces, it\u0026rsquo;s simple. You can throw me any which way: backwards, sideways, I\u0026lsquo;m always always \u003cem\u003eL\u0026rsquo;Idiot de passage \u003c/em\u003e[\u0026lsquo;The Idiot of Passing\u0026rsquo;, a name Filliou sometimes used for himself]. One of the last games I\u0026lsquo;ve published is \u003ca href=\"http://ensembles.org/items/leeds?locale=en\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLeeds\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":52,"name":"Robert Filliou","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}