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Emmett
Williams
(1925 SC, USA - 2007 Berlin
)
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* in South Carolina,
geboren am 1925 4th April in Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.A.
Grew up in Newport News, Virginia
1943 Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio
1943-46 U.S. Army
1946 Trips to Poland and Greece on cattleboats
1947-49 Kenyon College, B.A.
1949-66 Lived and worked in France, Germany and Switzerland:
Member of the "Darmstadt Circle" of concrete poetry, Dynamic theater, etc., with Claus Bremer and Daniel Spoerri; Domaine Poétique in Paris with Robert Filliou, Bernard Heidsieck, François Dufrêne, Ghérasim Luca and Brion Gysin; and the international Fluxus group since 1962
1966-70 Editor-in-chief, The Something Else Press, New York
1969 Artist-in-residence, University of Kentucky, Lexington
1970-72 Professor of Art, School of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts
1972-74 Guest Professor, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax
1975-77 Artist-in-residence, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts
1977 Wanderings in Japan with Ay-O
1977-78 Artist-in-residence, Research Fellow, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University
1978-80 Artist-in-residence, Leverett House, Harvard University
1980 Award-grant for work in Conceptual Art, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1980 Artist-in-residence, Berliner Künstlerprogramm (DAAD)
1981-85 Guest professor, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, and Hochschule der Künste, Berlin
1987 Co-founder, International Symposium of the Arts, Warsaw
Artist-in-residence, Machida-shi Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo
1990 Guest artist, Malindi Artists' Proof, Malindi, Kenya
1990-91 Director-President, Artists' Museum, Lodz, Poland
Guest artist, Malindi Artists' Proof, Malindi, Kenya
1996 Hannah Höch Prize for "a lifetime of achievement in the arts", Berlinische Galerie, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
1997 Honorary doctoral degree, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax
Lebt in Berlin und stirbt dort Feb.2007
Performances 1960 Darmstadt, Schloßkeller-Klub, Der i-punkt: Eine Oper, Assisted by Claus Bremer and Daniel Spoerri
1962 Wiesbaden, Städtisches Museum, Fluxus
Internationale Festspiele Neuester Musik, Four-Directional Song of Doubt for Five Voices, An Opera
Amsterdam, Galerie Monet, Parallele Aufführungen Neuester Musik, Moving Theater No.1, Simultaneous Operas for One-Eyed Poet and Millionaire
London, Gallery One, and The Institute of Contemporary Art, An Alphabet Symphony
Copenhagen, Nikolai Kirke, Fluxus: Musik og Anti-Musik, A German Chamber Opera for 38 Marias, Counting Songs, An Alphabet Symphony, Four-Directional Song of Doubt for Five Voices, Litany and Response No. 2 for Alison Knowles
Paris, American Students and Artists Center, Festum Fluxorum, Duet for Singer(s) and Audience, Counting Songs, An Alphabet Symphony, Four-Directional Song of Doubt for Five Voices, Litany and Response No. 2 for Alison Knowles
Paris, Place de la Contrescarpe, 13 Ways to Use Emmett Williams' Skull (with Robert Filliou)
1963 Dusseldorf, Staatliche Kunstakademie, Festum Fluxorum, Litany and Response No. 2 for Alison Knowles, Voice Piece for La Monte Young, Simultaneous Compositions for One Performer, An Alphabet Symphony, Counting Songs, Four-Directional Song of Doubt for Five Voices
Vienna, Stift Kloster-Neuburg, IX. Internationales Kunstgespräch. Performance with Daniel Spoerri
Paris, Galerie Raymond Cordier, Au Comptoir (with Robert Filliou)
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne, Biennale des jeunes artistes, Poésie et cetera américaine (director)
Paris, Atelier Harloff, Son of Man Trio (with Lettie Eisenhauer)
Amsterdam, Die Kleine Komedie, Fluxus Festival, 13 Ways to Use Emmett Williams' Skull, Voice Piece for La Monte Young
Paris, Centre Américain des Artistes, Simultaneous Operas for One-Eyed Poet and Millionaire (with Robert Filliou)
Amsterdam, De Kleine Komedie, Internationale Programma Neuwste Muziek, Neuwste Lituratur, (from the Fluxus Repertory)
Darmstadt, studio ordo, An Alphabet Symphony
1964 Arras, Musée Palais Saint-Vaast, L'Aujourd'hui de demain, The Ultimate Poem and Poème Collectif (with Robert Filliou)
Paris, American Students and Artists Center, 2ème Festival de la libre expression, La Bouche-Oreille Rose (with Robert Filliou)
Rotterdam, Kunstcentrum, t'Venster Flux-Festival, (from the Fluxus repertory)
Aachen, Technische Hochschule, Actions, Agit-Prop, De-Collage, Happenings, Events, l'Autrisme, Art Totale, Re-Fluxus, An Opera, Das Rosarote Ohrenpfropfen
Copenhagen, Charlottenborg, Billedhughersalen, An Emmett Williams evening
1965 New York, Café au Go-Go, Monday Night Letter series, An Emmett Williams evening (in absentia)
Paris, American Students and Artists Center, 3ème Festival de la libre expression, Chance is a fool's name for fate (with Earle Brown and Robert Filliou), Extra-Sensory Misperception (with Robert Filliou), The Pink Spaghetti Handshake (with Robert Filliou)
1966 New York, St. Mark's Church in the East Village, An Emmett Williams evening, The Ultimate Poem
New York, Filmmakers' Cinémathèque, Towards More Sensible Boredom, Synergetics (with Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik)
Philadelphia, The Tyler School of Art, The Ultimate Poem
1968 Madison, New Jersey, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 8th International Artists' Seminar, The Boy and the Bird, Pyromanopera: Fireworks as a Team Proposition (with Ay-O, Max Neuhaus, Michael Snow, Joyce Wieland and Allan Kaprow)
South Hadley, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College, An Alphabet Symphony (with student performers)
New York, Central Park, Bandstand on the Mall, Central Park Poetry Events, The Boy and the Bird and Some Words from Thomas Merton
1969 Lexington, Kentucky, University of Kentucky, Guignol Theater, Interview with Myself, A Playlet from the Topo (with Stan Mock) and, The Boy and the Bird (with Emi Ozaki, Jimmy Suzuki and Ay-O)
Buffalo, New York, University of Buffalo, The Boy and the Bird
1970 Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana Memorial Union, A Selection from 5,000 New Ways and The Boy and the Bird
Dusseldorf, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Double Happening: A Contribution to Happenings and Fluxus, (A film with Robert Filliou and Emmett Williams. Camera: Gerry Schum; production, Tony Morgan)
Berlin, Galerie René Block in Forum Theater, Fluxus Festival, Co-invention No. 5: The Nostalgia Factor (with Marianne and Robert Filliou)
1971 Longbeach, California State College, The Mobile Autopoets Present..., A Selection from 5,000 New Ways
Venice, California, The Other Side Coffee House, Emmett Williams in Performance, The Ultimate Poem, A Selection from 5,000 New Ways, The Boy and the Bird
San Bernadino, California, San Bernadino Valley College, The Boy and the Bird
1972 La Jolla, California, University of California at San Diego, USCD Art Gallery, Emmett Williams Reading... The Boy and the Bird, etc.
Halifax, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Kurt Schwitters by Emmett Williams
1976 New York, The Clock Tower, Delayed Flux New Year's Event, Counting Songs
Shiga Kogen, Japan, Seminar on Humor and Fluxus with Ay-O and Emmett Williams, The Boy and the Bird
Tokyo, American Cultural Center, Words and Birds and Ay-O and Takehisa Kosugi and Emmett Williams
South Hadley, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College, Waterworks: A multimedia exploration for 24 swimmers (with Barry Seace)
1977 Cambridge, Massachsetts, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Piling It On - a Lecture Demonstration
1978 Cambridge, Massachusetts, Leverett House, Harvard University, The Ghostly Ginger-Pop and Muck-Heap Mum, or, The Scrumptious Sea-Fowl on the Slob Slump: A Musical Play (with Stephen Romer)
1980 Cambridge, Massachusetts, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Incidental Music for Yo-Yo Ma, performed by Yo-Yo Ma and Ivan Tcherepnin
Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Salle Patino, Flux Concert, An Alphabet Symphony, Counting Song
1981 Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard Square Cambridge River Festival, Steamshuffle and Steampoems, a participatory installation by Christopher Janney and Joan Brigham, with steam poems by Emmett Williams
The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, Schemes & Variations vernissage, The Boy and the Bird, first European Performance
Berlin, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Performance I, The Boy and the Bird
1982 Boston, Massachusetts, City Hall Plaza, First Night Festival, Steamshuffle and Steampoems
Berlin, AEG Fabrik, Ackerstraße, Kunstquartier, Two of a Kind Plus One
1982 Florence, Teatro Rondo di Bacco, Poesia Sonora, The Boy and the Bird
Berlin, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Performance II, Genesis (Première)
Hamburg, Dankerrt, Woche der bildenden Kunst, Genesis
Wiesbaden, Museum Wiesbaden, 1962 Wiesbaden FLUXUS 1982, Fluxus Gala, Four-Directional Song of Doubt for Five Voices
Verona, Chez Francesco Conz, Co-invention N0. 6: The Performance Without a Name (with Robert Filliou)
1983 Paris, Galerie Art Contemporain J. et J. Donguy, Genesis
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, The Boy and the Bird
Berlin, Hochschule der Künste, Musik um 1962, A for Ismus (with Garry Williams) and An Alphabet Symphony ( with Chang Ja and Dagmar Fromme
Vienna, Szene Wien, Wiener Festwochen: Internationale Festival Phonetische Poesie, Litanei für H.C. Artmann and Genesis
Berlin, Wewerka Galerie, Faustzeichnungen (with Eberhard Blum)
1984 Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Sprachen der Künste, Spirale (with Ann Noël)
Frankfurt am Main, Theater am Turm, Mythos Berlin, The Boy and the Bird
Bremen, Radio Bremen, Musica Nova, Words for When the Music Stops: Première of musica
Poznan, Galeria Akumulatory, Genesis
Warsaw, Galeria Riviera Remont, Genesis
1985 Pittsburgh, Oliver Plaza, The Mattress Factory Series, Steamshuffle and Steampoems
Bath, England, Green Park Station, Art into Music into Art, Musica, The Boy and the Bird, and Four-Directional Song of Doubt for Five Voices, (with John Furnival, Ken Hughes, Peter Green and Laurence Whitfield)
Hannover, Sprengelmuseum, Tagung der deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie, Faustzeichnungen (with Eberhard Blum)
Munich, Gasteig, Berlin in Gasteig, Faustzeichnungen (solo) and musica
Roskilde, Denmark, Kulturhuset, Festival of Fantastics, The Boy and the Bird
1986 Berlin, AEG Fabrik Ackerstraße, Musik und Sprache, musica
Zurich, Galerie Marlene Frei / Gasthaus Neumarkt, musica
Warsaw, Galeria Riviera Remont, How to Make a Horse (with Andrzej Mitan, Andrzej Zaremba, Adam Czapicki and Cezary Staniszewski)
Posnan, Galeria Akumulatory II, musica
Frankfurt am Main, Schirn Kunsthalle, Die Maler und das Theater im 20. Jahrhundert, Faustzeichnungen, musica and The Boy and the Bird
Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung NordrheinWestfalen, Sprachen und Laute, Werke von Kurt Schwitters und Emmett Williams (with Eberhard Blum)
Linz, Brucknerhaus, Attersee und Seine Freunde, musica
Kassel, Kassler Kunstverein, The Sound / The Image / The Movement, musica
1987 Philadelphia, Municipal Services Building Plaza, 1st National Public Art in America Conference, Steamshuffle and Steampoems
Salzburg, Sommerakademie, Hohensalzburg, Spirale, An Alphabet Symphony - expanded version, Four-Directional Song of Doubt for Five Voices arranged for nine voices, with Ann Noël, Garry Williams and students
Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Momentaufnahme performance series, musica and The Boy and the Bird
Warsaw, Aula of the Polytechnical University, 1st International Seminar of the Arts, musica
Tokyo, Machida-shi, Museum of Graphic Arts, musica
Tokyo, Machida-shi, Ryo-den-ji Temple, Pieces from the Fluxus repertory, and improvisations, with Ann Noël and Garry Williams
Stuttgart, Mitte / Werkstatt und Kultur, An Emmett Williams Evening
Hamburg, Galerie Kammer, Lecture-performance for Dieter Roth und Freunde
1988 Reutlingen, Stadtbibliothek, Galerie auf dem Podest, Baden-Württembergische Literaturtage: "Der Rote Stuhl", Lesung: Der Rote Stuhl and The Boy and the Bird
Paris, Galerie Donguy, Robert Filliou Memorial Celebration, A Little Night Music for Robert
Pouilly, Danae Festival, Robert Filliou Memorial Celebration, I Never Want to Forget You (assisted by Francesco Conz)
Berlin, Berlinische Galerie, Stationen der Musikalischen Moderne concert series, Der Rote Stuhl, full version, with Ann Noël and Garry Williams
Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Der Gute Ton zum Schönem Bild, The Boy and the Bird
Bad Godesberg, Haus an der Redoute, Fluxus 1962-1989, Genesis, musica
Berlin, Wissenschafts Zentrum, Première: Kunst in Wissenschafts Zentrum series (with Hanna Frenzel), musica
1989 Nürnberg, Kunsthalle, buchstäblich / wörtlich..., Genesis and musica
Cologne, Moltkerei Werkstatt, Portrait of a Friend by Friends (film by Joan Logue), Genesis and Untitled (film by Maria Wasko)
Geneva, Festival de la Batie: Poésie Sonore, musica
Milano, Milano-Poesia, Festival Internazionale di Poesia, Musica, Video, Performance, Danza et Teatro, musica
1990 Quebec, Le Lieu: Centre en art actuel, Emmett Williams à Québec, Pieces from the Fluxus repertory
Halifax, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Emmett Williams evening: Pieces from the Fluxus repertory
Venice, Biennale, Ex Granai della Repubblica alle Zitelle, Ubi Fluxus ibi Motus, Counting Songs
Ganderkesee, Kunstverein, accompanying Wolfgang Hainke's exhibition "Schatzsuche", Treasure Hunting in Alphabetaland
Berlin, RA.M.M.ZATA Theater, Giannozzo Live Festival, Out of Africa, with Garry Williams, Mike Kunsmann, Florian Lühnsdorf, Michael Fazendin and Bwana Nyani
Zurich, Galerie Marlene Frei, Lecture-performance: A Post Flux Look at Flux Post
1991 Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Emmett Williams evening, A Jinji Japsu Sosumnika for the Co-inventor of the Spaghetti Sandwich, Genesis and musica
Berlin, Hotel Inter-Continental Berlin, Kunst Soirée for Guests and Friends of the Hotel, musica
Illasi (Verona), Domus Jani, Istituto internazionale per l'arte totale, African Festival and Malindi Concrete Poems, Out of Africa (with Ann Noël)
Berlin, China Center, Flexus Refluctions (with Ann Noël)
Berlin, Galerie Johannes Zielke, Stummereignis
Ludwigshafen-am-Rhein, Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Dialog der Künste: Wort Bild Wort, musica and Genesis
Heidelberg, Deutsch-Amerikanische Institut (DAI), 5. Festival für experimentalle Musik und Lituratur, musica
Berlin, Petersen Galerie, My Life in Flux - and Vice Versa (reading/installation)
Basel, Kunsthalle, The Boy and the Bird and readings from My Life in Flux - and Vice Versa
1992 Lublin, Cultural Center, Evening with Eric Andersen and Ann Noël during Fluxus and Company exhibition, musica
Malindi, Kenya, Malindi Artists' Proof (Casuarina), readings and performances, with Ann Noël and Sarenco
Wiesbaden, Archivkino Caligari, Fluxus Da Capo, Counting Song No. 11 (with Ann Noël) and musica
Berlin, Palais Podewils, Festival für Sprache und Musik, Out of Africa II (with Thomas Marquard)
Helsinki, Museet för Nutikunst, musica and Out of Africa (with Ann Noël)
Malmö, Sweden, Konsthall, En Klassisk Fluxus Konsert
Copenhagen, Nikolaikirke, An Opera
Berlin, Kunst-Werke, Künstler im Cespräch - (with Dorothy Iannone)
Munich, Praterinsel. Performance Night on the Praterinsel,musica
1993 Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, "In the Spirit of Fluxus", Fluxus as I See-Saw it.
Berlin, Literaturhaus, "Choice and Chance", Faustzeichnungen (with Eberhard Blum)
Seoul, Korea, Seoul Arts Center, An Opera, Out of Africa (with Ann Noël)
Leipzig, Old Town Hall, An Emmett Williams Evening
Bremen, Galerie Beim Steinernen Kreuz, Reading and Performance
1994 London, Tate Gallery, Fluxbrittanica, Fluxus Concert
London, Institute of Contemporary Art, Fluxus Returns
Innsbruck, Siebenkapellenareal, Genesis, Meditation
Copenhagen, Royal Academy of Art, En Garde, Nørgaard
Budapest, /Eurowoodstock, Out of Africa (with Ann Noël)
Berlin, Kunst-Werke, Künstler im Cespräch - (with Ay-O)
Lodz, Artists' Museum, Performance (with Ay-O)
Hannover, Eisfabrik, Genesis
Berlin, Amerika Haus, Out of Africa (with Ann Noël)
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Fluxus Concert
Darmstadt, Matildenhöhe and Modehaus Schrumpf, Life is Art Enough (with Jürgen O. Olbrich)
Linz, Galerie Maerz, Meditation in the Shape of a Diamond and Other Noises
1995 Darmstadt, Keller-Klub im Schloss, Bouillon de Culture, 43rd Birthday of the Artist's Cellar Club.
Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, Construction in Process, Dr. Shekel and Mr. Hide
Berne, Dampf Zentrale, Life is Art Enough (with Jürgen O. Olbrich)
St. Petersburg, Smolny Cathedral, Out of Africa (with Ann Noël)
1996 New York, Crosby Street Project, A Performance or Two (with Ann Noël)
The Hague, Korzo Theater, musica
Moscow, Central House of Artists, Out of Africa (with Ann Noël)
Berlin, Interims Kusthalle, Geschichte der Galerie Wewerka, Hotel Adlon Counting Song (with Ann Noël)
St. Johann im Pongau, Austria, Modehaus Nagel, Out of Africa (with Ann Noël)
Wiesbaden, Fluxeum, George Maciunas Prize presentation to Romuald Hazoumé
Warsaw, Galeria Zacheta, Out of Africa (with Ann Noël)
Hannover, Galerie 13, ABC et cetera, (with Ann Noël)
Zurich, Museum für Gestaltung, Out of Africa (with Ann Noël)
1997 Vienna, Messepalast/Museumsquartier, "Die Wiener Gruppe," The Boy and the Bird
1958 konkretionen, published by Daniel Spoerri as Number 3 of the review "material", Darmstadt. With commentaries on the poems by Daniel Spoerri and Claus Bremer.
1960 Ja, Es War Noch Da, Nota, Munich. German translation by Renate Kirchhoff. Published in English as An Opera by Fluxus, Wiesbaden 1964. Published in Czech (translated by Vladimir Burda) as Opera, Sesìty, Prague 1967.
1961 Cities of Germany, a Stars & Stripes Publication, Darmstadt.
1963 poésie et cetera américaine (editor), Biennale des jeunes artistes, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris
Cities of Europe, a Stars & Stripes Publication, Darmstadt.
1965 13 Variations on 6 Words of Gertrude Stein, Edition Mat-Mot, Galerie der Spiegel, Cologne
1966 rotapoems, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart / London
An Anecdoted Topography of Chance by Daniel Spoerri, translated and further anecdoted by Emmett Williams, The Something Else Press, N.Y.
1967 sweethearts, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart / London, and The Something Else Press, New York
An Anthology of Concrete Poetry (editor), Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart, and The Something Else Press, New York
Claes Oldenburg's Store Days, selected by Claes Oldenburg and Emmett Williams, The Something Else Press, New York
The Last French-Fried Potato and other poems, A Great Bear Pamphlet, The Something Else Press, New York
1968 The Book of Thorn & Eth, bound back to back with Dieter Rot's Noch Mehr Scheisse. Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart / London
246 Little Clouds by Diter Rot, edited and with an introduction by Emmett Williams. Illustrated. Something Else Press, New York. "Corrected version" published by Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart / London 1976.
Anekdoten zu einer Topographie des Zufalls enhaltend die mit Hilfe von Daniel Spoerris gutem Freunde Robert Filliou aufgezeichnete französiche Originalversion und das Anekdotenallerlei seines guten Freundes Emmett Williams aus der amerikanischen Version, alles übersetzt und mit weiteren Anekdoten angereichert von seinem ebenso guten Freunde Diter Rot und verlegt von Luchterhand, Neuwied und Berlin
1969 The Boy and the Bird, first edition, with illustrations by Tom Wasmuth, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart, and Wittenborn, New York
1973 About Spoerri Landscapes, Green Butter and Other Matters, text-booklet accompanying a suite of lithographs, Six Variations Upon a Spoerri Landscape, printed at the Lithography Workshop, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
A Valentine for Noël, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart, and The Something Else Press, New York
Language Happenings in "Open Poetry: Four Anthologies of Expanded Poems". Edited by Ronald Gross and George Quasha, with Emmett Williams, John Robert Columbo and Walter Lowenfelds, Simon & Schuster, New York
1974 Selected Shorter Poems 1950-1970, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart and London; Eaton House Publishers Ltd.; and New Directions Publishing Company, New York
1975 THE VOY AGE, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart and London
1978 Shiga-Kit, edited and published by Koichi Watanabe in Imadate-cho (Fukui): cassettes, films, photographs and other documentation of "A Seminar on Humour With Ay-O and Emmett Williams at Shiga Kogen", in magemono wooden box
1979 The Boy and the Bird, second edition, with 90 illustrations by the author, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart and London, and Eaton House Ltd.
1980 Holdup (with Keith Godard), Works Editions, New York
1981 Schemes & Variations, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart and London; Gemeente Museum, The Hague; and the Nationalgalerie, Berlin
1982 A Little Night Book (with Keith Godard), Works Editions, New York
1983 Faustzeichnungen, with 141 illustrations by the author, Rainer Verlag, Berlin
Faustzeichnungen, paperback reprint without illustrations, Rainer Verlag, Berlin
The Book of Thorn & Eth, photo-mechanical reprint in reduced format of the 1968 edition, Rainer Verlag, Berlin
1984 Chicken Feet, Duck Limbs and Dada Handshakes, illustrated by the author, Western Front Editions, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1985 FIESTA! Petersen Galerie, Berlin. Thirty poems, 4 reproductions, bibliograhy.
schutzengel/l'ange gardien/guardian angel/angelo custode, Edition Hundertmark, Köln
1986 Selbstbildnis ohne Titel, Marlene Frei, Artists Books, Galerie & Edition, Zürich. Box with cassette, texts, illustrations. The Boy and The Bird and musica read by the author; Cellar Song for Five Voices performed by Joan La Barbara, Jolyon Brettingham Smith, Toni Stooss, Eberhard Blum, Roland Pfrengle.
Emmett Williams: Language Happenings, edited by Ann Noël. Texts and photographs of performances at the Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst in Salzburg.
1988 Deutsche Gedichte, illustrated with 63 "light sculptures" by the author, Rainer Verlag, Berlin
1989 La dernière pomme frite et autres poèmes des fifties et sixties, Centre de Gravure Contemporaine, Geneva
1991 sound POESIE sonore, Manuskripte zu "musica" von Emmett Williams und "Vaduz" von Bernard Heidsieck; Textkörper und Körpertext von Michael Glasmeier (deutsch / englisch); CD der Lautdichtungen; NAU Verlag, Berlin
Trenta Fluxaventi, with an introduction by Sarenco, Laser Edition, Illasi (Verona)
My Life in Flux - and Vice Versa, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart and London
My Life in Flux - and Vice Versa, limited edition with two original drawings by the author, Wiens Laden & Verlag, Berlin
1992 My Life in Flux - and Vice Versa, Thames and Hudson, London, and Thames and Hudson, New York
1991 Genesis: A Light Poem, translated into Polish by Piotr Bikont and Andrzej Chetko. Produced by Andrzej Chetko, Bozena Kalinowska and Pawel Tryzno (Correspondance des Arts III), for the International Artists' Museum in Lodz, Poland
1992 13 Variations Nineteen recently discovered leporellos from the book-object published in 1965 by Edition Mat-Mot and Galerie der Spiegel, Cologne (see 1965 entry in this section), repackaged and distributed by Wiens Laden & Verlag, Berlin.
1993 Aleph, Alpha, and Alfalfa, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
1995 An Anecdoted Topography of Chance by Daniel Spoerri done with the help of his very dear friend Robert Filliou and translated from the French and further anecdoted by their very dear friend Emmett Williams, enriched with still further anecdotations by their very dear friend Dieter Roth (translated out of the German for the first time by Malcolm Green), with 100 reflective illustrations by Topor. Atlas Press, London
1996 MR. FLUXUS: Ein Gemeinschaftsporträt von George Maciunas (1931-1978), Aus persöhnlichen Erinnerungen gesammelt von Emmett Williams und Ay-O und montiert von Emmett Williams und Ann Noël. Harlekin Art, Wiesbaden.
1997 MR. FLUXUS: A Collective Portrait of George Maciunas (1931-1978), out of personal reminiscences collected by Emmett Williams and Ay-O and edited by Emmett Williams and Ann Noël.To be published by Thames and Hudson in London and New York in September 1997.
Galerien: Vostell / Wewerka / Galerie beim Steinerneern Kreuz, Bremen / Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin / Galerie Marlene Frei, Zürich
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