Robert Filliou, Republics of Genius – Italy, 1972.

‘On the basis of this practice of participation and lack of distinction between the artist and the public, in 1971 Filliou produced Le Territoire de la République Géniale (“The Territory of the Republic of Genius”), a conceptual action that had the sense of a utopia, presented for the first time at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. In this ideal utopian space. the public enter a de-territorialized territory, predisposed with documents and photographs, in which various boxes correspond to the different countries of the world. Interacting with this reinterpretation of geopolitics, arranged by the artist, the public was called to develop their own “genius” in the conviction, peculiar to the artist as to Fluxus, that the ignorant is privileged compared to the wise, in proportion to their innate talent and not their induced knowledge.’

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