During his residence as an artist at the Arton Center (Canada), Robert Filliou made this film, in collaboration with Clive Robertson and Marcella Bienvenue, as a video supplement to his book, T eaching and Learning as Performing Arts (1970). This document follows the artists career and shows fragments of what he calls his "permanent creation": performances (The Gong Show, What's Happening), films, poetic happenings, environments and non-instrumental music.
In the Sixties, as an active member of the Fluxus network, he created a broad corpus of ephemeral and "interminable" works that were philosophical thoughts on art as knowledge of the world, all of which was based upon the principle of equiva lence: the equivalence of words, languages, images, space, time, learning and non-learning. Throughout this work which is rigorous to the point of asceticism, he continues his learning process and permanent redefinition of the world.

Stéphanie Moisdon