{"id":14219,"title":"Eternal Network","dimensions":"11.9 x 110 cm","date_begin":"1961-01-01","material":"paper labels on chipboard","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":79,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":4,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne Métropole, Saint-Etienne Métropole","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":"1973-01-01","reference":"92.9.75","stream_count_app":40,"permalink":"eternal-network","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Robert Filliou","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":"Mixed Media","nl":"Mixed Media","fr":"Mixed Media"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/032/505/large/2016_Filliou__10.jpg?1476279072","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe force that drives Filliou\u0026rsquo;s work and thought is Permanent Creation. He helps to establish various Centres of Permanent Creation, such as the \u003ca href=\"http://ensembles.org/items/le-ou-la-poipoidrome-a-espace-temps-reel-prototype-00?locale=nl\"\u003ePo\u0026iuml;po\u0026iuml;drome\u003c/a\u003e and the \u003ca href=\"http://ensembles.org/items/la-ceduille-qui-sourit?locale=nl\"\u003eSmiling Cedilla\u003c/a\u003e. As an alternative to the notion of the avant-garde, he proposes the Eternal Network, also known as \u0026lsquo;La f\u0026ecirc;te permanente\u0026rsquo;.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\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 This is very important. There\u0026rsquo;s a reference to \u0026lsquo;\u003ca href=\"http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/la-ceduille-qui-sourit?locale=nl\"\u003eThe Smiling Cedilla\u003c/a\u003e\u0026rsquo;. Under\u003cem\u003e \u0026lsquo;\u003c/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEternal Network\u003c/strong\u003e\u0026rsquo;, since this is a dictionary, I think we should begin with the definition that George and I gave it. By the way, we then decided also to reuse it at the exhibition in Paris. \u0026lsquo;There is always someone asleep, someone awake.\u0026rsquo; We leave that in English. \u0026lsquo;See \u0026ldquo;The Smiling Cedilla\u0026rdquo;\u003cem\u003e.\u003c/em\u003e\u0026rsquo; There will be the poster. There will be \u0026lsquo;\u003ca href=\"http://ensembles.org/actors/george-brecht?locale=nl\"\u003eGeorge Brecht\u003c/a\u003e and Robert Filliou\u0026rsquo;.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left:34.0pt;\"\u003eTHERE IS ALWAYS SOMEONE ASLEEP AND SOMEONE AWAKE\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nSOMEONE DREAMING ASLEEP SOMEONE DREAMING AWAKE\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nSOMEONE EATING SOMEONE HUNGRY\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left:34.0pt;\"\u003eSOMEONE FIGHTING SOMEONE LOVING\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nSOMEONE MAKING MONEY SOMEONE BROKE\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nSOMEONE TRAVELLING SOMEONE STAYING PUT\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nSOMEONE HELPING SOMEONE HINDERING\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nSOMEONE ENJOYING SOMEONE SUFFERING SOMEONE INDIFFERENT\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nSOMEONE STARTING SOMEONE STOPPING\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nTHE NETWORK IS EVERLASTING.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n[\u003cem\u003eTeaching and Learning as Performing Arts\u003c/em\u003e, p.205]\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThen I would add, if you think it\u0026rsquo;s good, that we noticed a few years later that people, young artists we didn\u0026rsquo;t know, mainly in Canada, groups like the Imagebank in Vancouver and General Idea in Toronto and WORKS in Calgary, etc., were considering their activities manifestations of the Eternal Network. In 1973 I decided to go visit these Canadians, whom I\u0026rsquo;d been corresponding with.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; I went to Canada. I met them, and when I returned, my presentation on the occasion of ADA [Aktionen der Avantgarde] in Berlin [in 1973] was \u003cem\u003eResearch on the Eternal Network\u003c/em\u003e. I presented a bunch of documents about the activities of those groups, those people I\u0026rsquo;d met. In particular, I proposed that the Eternal Network could effectively replace the concept of the avant-garde, which we considered obsolete, dated.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; We can then have the text about \u003ca href=\"http://ensembles.org/items/eternal-network/assets/33153?locale=en\"\u003ePoincar\u0026eacute;\u003c/a\u003e, etc. I\u0026rsquo;ll give it to you before you leave. I have to find it. I have the catalogue; I have everything for \u0026lsquo;Research on the Eternal Network\u0026rsquo;\u003cem\u003e. \u003c/em\u003eThere were many other things as well. Others will appear, for example under \u0026lsquo;\u003ca href=\"http://ensembles.org/items/musique-telepathique-n-5?locale=en\"\u003eTelepathic Music\u003c/a\u003e\u0026rsquo;. We\u0026rsquo;ll see about that. You know the first text for \u0026lsquo;Research on the Eternal Network\u0026rsquo;.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIL:\u003c/strong\u003e In the beginning, in 1968, when you wrote this short text, was it only a concept?\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRF:\u003c/strong\u003e See, we realised people were using it. Now it\u0026rsquo;s already used so much in the whole world, without exclusivity of course, and mainly by people in Canada or the United States, various groups. I just received mail from Toronto, where there\u0026rsquo;s even a publishing house called The Eternal Network.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Both George and are reusing the concept. George, for his part, uses the concept of Eternal Network whenever he feels like it or has the opportunity. For example by writing \u0026lsquo;The Eternal Network Presents\u0026hellip;\u0026rsquo; when he presents one of his illustrations of the Gibbs paradoxes. And also on his latest postcards. Me too, on my latest invitation in Paris. We decided to use it like that. We\u0026rsquo;re working on a second volume on the Cedilla, because it goes on even if it doesn\u0026rsquo;t have its seat in Villefranche. We\u0026rsquo;ve already decided that the title would be \u003cem\u003eThe Eternal Network Presents: The Cedilla Flies Over\u003c/em\u003e. We consider our own activities part of the Eternal Network\u003cem\u003e.\u003c/em\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; For the youngsters in Canada, certain things like Fluxus have been important. Like Ray Johnson\u0026rsquo;s New York Correspondence School, which they referred to very often. They considered that part of the activities of the Network. When they celebrated Art\u0026rsquo;s Birthday, they also presented themselves that way, on 2 February 1974. I must find one of these publications by this publishing house to show you. Under \u0026lsquo;\u003ca href=\"http://ensembles.org/items/1-000-010-geburtstag-der-kunst?locale=en\"\u003eArt\u0026rsquo;s Birthday\u003c/a\u003e\u0026rsquo; and\u003cem\u003e \u0026lsquo;\u003c/em\u003eEternal Network\u0026rsquo;\u003cem\u003e.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eDe drijvende kracht achter het werk en het denken van Filliou is de Permanente creatie. Filliou helpt bij het oprichten van verschillende centra voor permanente creatie, zoals de \u003ca href=\"http://ensembles.org/items/le-ou-la-poipoidrome-a-espace-temps-reel-prototype-00?locale=nl\"\u003ePo\u0026iuml;po\u0026iuml;drome\u003c/a\u003e en \u003ca href=\"http://ensembles.org/items/la-ceduille-qui-sourit?locale=nl\"\u003eLa C\u0026eacute;dille qui Sourit\u003c/a\u003e, en stelt voor de historische avant-garde te vervangen door het Eternal Network, ook bekend onder de naam F\u0026ecirc;te permanente.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eLa force motrice derri\u0026egrave;re l\u0026rsquo;\u0026oelig;uvre et la pens\u0026eacute;e de Filliou est la Cr\u0026eacute;ation permanente. Filliou a fond\u0026eacute; diff\u0026eacute;rents centres de cr\u0026eacute;ation permanente, comme \u003ca href=\"http://ensembles.org/items/le-ou-la-poipoidrome-a-espace-temps-reel-prototype-00?locale=nl\"\u003ePo\u0026iuml;po\u0026iuml;drome\u003c/a\u003e et \u003ca href=\"http://ensembles.org/items/la-ceduille-qui-sourit?locale=nl\"\u003eLa C\u0026eacute;dille qui Sourit\u003c/a\u003e, et a propos\u0026eacute; de remplacer l\u0026rsquo;avant-garde historique par l\u0026rsquo;Eternal Network, \u0026eacute;galement connu sous le nom de F\u0026ecirc;te permanente.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"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"}}]}