Can anyone tell me what this is --many thanks for any kind of info,
background, etc.
James DenBoer
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A white folder containing:
Participations to the Festival of Non Art -- Anti Art -- Truth Art -- How
to Change Art and Mankind --That Took Place from the 1st to the 15th of
June 1969, in the World. (Festival Non Art -- Anti Art -- La Verite est
Art -- Comment Changer L'Art et L'Homme: Partout dans le mond, du Ier au 15
Juin 1969). Fluxus, Nice 1963. Organized by Ben Vautier.
Set number 131 of "500 Exemplaires Numerotes Sous Forme de Feuilles 21x27
Dans Un Dossier Blanc."
"All participants in the festival will have one page of the review at their
disposal. Posters will be published containing a big empty space. They
will be given to participants, 50 copies each, to fill up empty space and
communicate what they feel like communicating in their surroundings. . .
Are invited Fluxus: Zaj, Richard C., H. Flynt, Chiari, Mosset, Ken
Friedman, A. Jouffroy, W. de Maria, J. J. Lebel, E. Anderson, Guinochet
Francois, Diter Rot, Ray Johnson, George Brecht, Buren, J. L. Brau,
Gosewitz, Guillamon, Filliou, Vostell, Spoerri, B. Duval, B. Vautier,
Duchamp, Beuys, Maciunas, G. Debord, Pomereulles, D. Palazolli, A. Koepke,
G. Metzger, U. Nespolo, R. Page, Nanni, S. Oldenbourg, Tobas, Viallat,
Dietmann, Pinoncelli, etc . . as well as five names picked a random . . .
the festival shall be financed by anonymous and free participations. . .
Many are those doubtless who think, that a non art festival is not
necessary. That it is better to do nothing, that choosing people is not
Non Art, that a Festival can only be another artistic megalomaniac
enterprise, may be they are right. But why not permit such communications?"
The White Dossier contains: a colophon page, a map of the world with
festival announcement, 2 pages of description in English and in French, 4
pages listing contributions in English and in French in reproduced
handwriting of (presumably) Ben Vautier, a Fluxus photo of violin makers in
Nice, a photo of a street in Nice, a reproduced front cover of L'Espoir
newspaper Nice, and other separate pages with the festival contributions of
Nagasawa, William Louis Sorensen, 3 anonymous poems, Deligand, Olivier
Mosset, Ray Johnson, Marc Brusse, Eva Cunegonde, Roland Flexner, Peter
Kuttner, Annie & Ben Vautier, Buren, Fremiot, Diter Rot, Monique Bentin, Le
Jeune equipe de Grenoble, Guiseppe Chiari, Bresil, J.M. G. Le Clezio,
George Brecht, Ken Freidman, the Guinochet brothers, Franco Ravedonne,
Walter Marchetti, Juan Hidalgo, Le Peonec, Kasper Koenig, a false summons
to a false General Assembly of the Salon de Mai 1969, Henry Flynt (2
items), Moineau, Ken Freidman, Chiari , Lourdes Castro, A-gui-gui, Robert
Filliou, Tobas, Groupe Agentzia, Jochen Gerz, Ben Vautier, Marcel Alocco,
Serge Oldenbourg, Knud Pedersen, Francis Merino, Eric Andeersson, Groupe de
Piacneza, Groupe de Viallet a Limoges, Micini, Pierluigi Albertoni, Mosset,
anonymous contribution from Tokyo, Roland Flexner again, Raoul Hausmann,
Guillaume de Lyon, Groupe a Tours, le Group Swiz, Vautier again, Richard
C., Groupe Lidl de Dusseldorf, Luzerne, Bruno Duval -- that is, some 65 or
more reproduced items of art or documentation.
James DenBoer
Sacramento CA
