EmmettWilliams

Biography
Emmett Williams (1925 Greenville, South Carolina, USA – 2007 Berlin, Germany) was an American poet and performer of experimental poetry. In 1962, he took part in the “Fluxus Internationale Festspiele Neuester Musik” in Wiesbaden and since then regularly participated in Fluxus concerts and events. The later unconventional autobiography My Life in Flux – and Vice Versa (Stuttgart: Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 1991) brings together documents and anecdotes from Williams’s journey between the United States, Europe, and Asia, providing precise and unique documentation of his participation in the Fluxus movement. Returning to the United States in 1966, he became editor-in-chief of Something Else Press until 1970, collaborating on some of the publishing house’s most essential works, including Claes Oldenburg’s Store Days (1961), and editing the outstanding Anthology of Concrete Poetry (1967). In 1982, while living in Berlin with his wife Ann Nöel, Williams had an exhibition at the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, titled Schemes and Variations, which was attended by Francesco Conz and members of Fluxus. The relationship of sincere friendship and mutual esteem between Williams and Conz resulted in unique works produced in Asolo and Verona over the course of almost thirty years of collaboration. Williams' works have been exhibited in numerous international museums, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris (1983), the Berlinische Galerie in Berlin (1996), and the Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund (2005). Emmett Williams’s archive is currently part of the Getty Research Institute.
Artworks (69)
- Emmett Williams
Fluxus Alchemy, 1990 - Emmett Williams
Stained Glass Windows for the Fluxus Cathedral, 1988 - Emmett Williams
Soldier, 1970, 1983 - Emmett Williams
Fifth Malindi Concrete Poem, 1990 - Emmett Williams
Sondern 4, 1980 - Emmett Williams
Pagoda, 1956, 1983 - Emmett Williams
Mississippi, A Marching Song in the Shape…, 1966,1989 - Emmett Williams
Sense Sound, 1955, 1989 - Emmett Williams
Reflections on Gertrude Stein's 100th birthday, 1983 - Emmett Williams
Alphabet Square, 1956, 1983 - Emmett Williams
Untitled, 1989 - Emmett Williams
A What Is It? - Emmett Williams
Meditation #1, 1983-1986 - Emmett Williams
Hello Out There, 1989 - Robert Watts, Emmett Williams
Fun With Fluxus, 1984, 1985 - Emmett Williams
Second Malindi Concrete Poem, 1990 - Emmett Williams
What happened to finger, father? - Emmett Williams
She Loves Me Not, 1966, 1983 - Emmett Williams
Second Malindi Concrete Poem, 1990 - Emmett Williams
Twenty-one Proposals for the Stained-glass…, 1991 - Emmett Williams
Untitled, 1957 (1989) - Emmett Williams
Seventh Malindi Concrete Poem, 1990 - Roy Adzak, Anna Banana, Roberto Comini, Robert…
20 Jahre Rainer Verlag, 1986 - Emmett Williams
Grappa Williams, 1992 - Emmett Williams
Red Blue, 1958, 1988 - Emmett Williams
The Four Seasons, 1983 - Emmett Williams
She Loves Me, 1966, 1983 - Emmett Williams
African Fiesta, 1990 - Emmett Williams
Meditation n° 1, 1958, 2001 - Emmett Williams
Stained Glass Windows for the Fluxus Cathedral, 1988 - Emmett Williams
African Fiesta, 1990 - Emmett Williams
Sense Sound, 1954, 2001 - Emmett Williams
E, 1956, 1983 - Philip Corner, Alain Gibertie, Eilen Gruber,…
Fun With Fluxus, 1984, 1992 - Emmett Williams
First Love, 1983 - Emmett Williams
Art... Life, 1975, 1983 - Emmett Williams
Sense Sound, 1990 - Emmett Williams
Sixth Malindi Concrete Poem, 1990 - Robert Watts, Emmett Williams
Fun With Fluxus, 1984, 1989 - Emmett Williams
Banana Piano (instructions), 1988 - Emmett Williams
Tangrams in Flux I + II, 1980, 1981 - Emmett Williams
She Loves Me, 1966, 1983 - Emmett Williams
16 Lovers: A Little Autobiography for F.C., 1990 - Emmett Williams
Untitled - Emmett Williams
Fifth Malindi Concrete Poem, 1990 - Emmett Williams
Guess what this is! - Emmett Williams
First Love, 1983 - Emmett Williams
Stained Glass Windows for the Fluxus Cathedral, 1988 - Emmett Williams
A German Opera for 38 Marias, 1962, 1988 - Emmett Williams
She Loves Me Not, 1966, 1983 - Emmett Williams
Art... Life, 1975, 1983 - Emmett Williams
Fluxus Ist, 1988 - Emmett Williams
Second Malindi Concrete Poem, 1990 - Emmett Williams
Sixth Malindi Concrete Poem, 1990 - Emmett Williams
Meditation n° 1, 1958, 2001 - Emmett Williams
First Malindi Concrete Poem, 1990 - Emmett Williams
Stained Glass Windows for the Fluxus Cathedral, 1988 - Emmett Williams
Seventh Malindi Concrete Poem, 1990 - Emmett Williams
Untitled, 1995 - Daniel Spoerri, Various artists, Emmett Williams
Six Variations Upon a Spoerri Landscape, 1973 - Emmett Williams
Untitled, 1993 - Emmett Williams
First Malindi Concrete Poem, 1990 - Emmett Williams
First Malindi Concrete Poem, 1990 - Emmett Williams
Ezra Loomis Pound, 1958/1989, 2001 - Emmett Williams
Reflections on Gertrude Stein's 100th birthday, 1983 - Emmett Williams
This is the negative Banana Piano, 1989 - Emmett Williams
Happy Ending Bad, 1990 - Emmett Williams
Fifth Malindi Concrete Poem, 1990 - Emmett Williams
Stained Glass Windows for the Fluxus Cathedral, 1988