Saturday, March 30, 2013

drinking, the cries of the public, players clumsy in the dark. Sound familiar? But it is a job too

Did you know there was a card game called "Leeds? I did not, although I am from the city and have amassed a cache of unusual information during my professional life.

was invented by an artist from France, a country that is responsible for a series of curious cultural interventions in or near Leeds, and will play in public at an event organized by the Henry Moore Institute and artist and gallery management model of the city next month.

The game was designed by artist Robert Filliou, he taught in the 1970s at Leeds, in collaboration with Robin Page and George Brecht, albeit unconventional. A communist resistance fighter during the Nazi occupation who later worked as a laborer in Los Angeles for Coca-Cola and became an economic adviser to the UN in Korea, organized what he called a "non-school in France The principle was.

Many artists work has to do with learning, with anti-brainwashing



Filliou and began its program of joie de vivre.

boxes created optimism and said that art had become 998,037 January 17 BC, when someone dropped a sponge in water. The date is celebrated on the anniversary of his admirers Fluxus movement, which was part of Filliou. This year, the cake had theoretical one million fifty candles.

Leeds had a good welcoming attitude of this mischief, the tradition of making games Waddington in Stourton. Originally a printing company, the company has been producing playing cards and invented dozens of famous games. Monopoly, an American import, was first played in England at the home of the owners of the company, the Watson family in Scotland Lane between Horsforth and Leeds / Bradford Airport.

Filliou of'' Leeds is less complicated than Monopoly, but not immediately easy to understand. Lisa Le Feuvre, Head of Sculpture Studies at the Henry Moore Institute, tells the

Yorkshire Evening Post


lot of alcohol, with players blindfolded using flip cards for the public to shout instructions at their disposal.
Player

trusting the public and allow their movements orchestrated by people who see through them. If we were in France, this exposure is very important, but because it is so well known in Britain I hope is very popular, but more of a slow burn. His art was mainly on research on how to live.


If you want advice on how to be one. Good, or, failing that, subversive, audience member, there is a good amount of information about Leeds, the online game can be seen in the photos, as if to be easy to make your own game and the Institute, and other rules will Weirdos.


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a challenge with implications for Leeds remains unresolved and
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