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Performance poetry

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

an opera / Williams, Emmett., 1986

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Identifier: CC-61977-62738
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A text-score signed, ("The libretto in this Hundertmark Edition is original from 1960...") an original photo and a magnifier. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Art / Power / Works / Lischke A ; Williams E ; Noel A ; Radzinski R., 2002

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Identifier: CC-46964-49702
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Russell Radzinski edited the catalogue and contributed an introductory essay "Art/Power/Works and the Approach to Conceptual Art." For the exhibition Emmett Williams presented a new version of his Alphabet Symphony. It was conducted by his wife Ann Noel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Emmett Williams im Gutenberg Pavillon Mainz / Williams, Emmett ; Patterson B ; Higgins D ; Knowles A ; Page R ; Spoerri D ; Maciunas B ; Filliou R ; Kopcke A ; Spoerri D ; Ben., 2001

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Identifier: CC-54908-990326
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Emmett Williams writes about his creation of the Alphabet Symphony for the Festival of Misfits in London in 1962. The performance was one of the first Fluxus events even before the name Fluxus was used. It was preceded by the first Festum Fluxorum the previous month in Weisbaden with Williams and Ben Paterson as the only certified Fluxus artists. Paterson contributed an essay and conducted Williams' alphabet performance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

futura: Rotapoems. No.12 / Emmett Williams., 1966

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Identifier: CC-27469-28517
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Rotapoems, dedicated to Dieter Roth, are in fact 6 versions of a poem in Roth's lyrical collection "Scheisse," Providence 1966. They are a return to a form Williams first used in his book "Konkretionen," Krefeld 1959, and the "Litanies for Alison Knowles," placed in a musical landscape by Dick Higgins in 1966. The vowels of Roth's original poem are shifted progressively from version to version, resulting in constant sound changes and frequent alterations in sense. They are meant to be read aloud." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966