THE ALL DAY VIDEO BREAKFAST

THE ALL DAY VIDEO BREAKFAST is an planetary network online exchange event at artsbirthday.peacebiennale.info from 16:38 UTC/GMT, Saturday, 16 January – 17:56 UTC/GMT, Sunday, 17 January 2016. The first people to potentially have breakfast on Art’s 1,000,053rd Birthday would live in Kiritimati, Republic of Kiribati and so THE ALL DAY VIDEO BREAKFAST will begin at sunrise at 06:38 LINT (Line Islands Time). The last people to have breakfast on Art’s1,000,053rd Birthday could be doing so from sunrise at 05:56 NUT (Niue Time) on Alofi, Niue. THE ALL DAY VIDEO BREAKFAST will be live until 06:56 NUT (Niue Time).

As the sun rises on each timezone welcoming Art’s Birthday from Line Islands Time (UTC+14) to Niue Time (UTC-12), THE ALL DAY VIDEO BREAKFAST – inspired by Robert Filliou’s ‘Video Breakfasting’ performances – will unfold as online bricolage of ‘manifestations, meanderings, meditations, microcosms, macrocosms, mixtures, meanings …’ taking the common practice of breakfasting as a starting point. Follow @AoP_Biennale on twitter for updates from each timezone and get in touch there or by email to hello [at] peacebiennale [dot] info which suggestions, discussions and possible interactions. THE ALL DAY VIDEO BREAKFAST will not be ‘televised’. THE ALL DAY VIDEO BREAKFAST is open to all.

ART’S 1,000,053rd BIRTHDAY

ART’S BIRTHDAY is an annual celebration invented by Robert Filliou, who declared that Art became 1,000,000 years old on 17 January 1963, the date of his own 37th birthday. Filliou proposed playfully that art existed since:

‘a man took a dry sponge and dropped it into a bucket full of water.
who that man was is not important.
he is dead, but art is alive.’

A global network of artists and friends have since celebrated Filliou’s vision of art, creativity and play annually on 17 January. You can find out about events celebrating Art’s Birthday from 1973 until today at www.artsbirthday.net.

THE NEXT ART-OF-PEACE BIENNALE 2015-17

THE NEXT ART-OF-PEACE BIENNALE 2015-17 began on Art’s Birthday 2015 and promotes Filliou’s question:

We’re all against war. But what are we for? Peace, we say. What is peace? Nobody quite knows.

The first edition of the biennale was the exhibition ‘Zugehend auf eine Biennale des Friedens’ (or ‘Towards an Art-of-Peace Biennale’) organised by René Block in 1985. Future editions were intended to travel, have different curators and take different forms.THE NEXT ART-OF-PEACE BIENNALE 2015-17 is a nomadic biennale, a biennale-as-meeting, as-workshop, as-network. It is intended as a network of online and offline ‘manifestations, meanderings, meditations, microcosms, macrocosms, mixtures, meanings …’ (Filliou 1970, 202).

Art’s Birthday is a very important date in THE NEXT ART-OF-PEACE BIENNALE 2015-17. The first of the Biennale’s three Art’s Birthday events took place at Richard Saltoun Gallery, London and involved fun-making, bubble-blowing, tea-drinking, hat-folding, an aikido demonstration and much more.

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