That’s where the Emily Harvey Foundation had a memorial for Emmett in 2007. The “Alphabet Square” was printed on the back of the invitation to the memorial—but cut into four pieces. On the front of the invitation were photos from a 2005 performance by Emmett and his wife Ann Noël of Robert Filliou’s score “13 Ways to use Emmett Williams’ Skull.” Going through old files the other day, I came across the invitation and simply pieced together the four parts of the “Alphabet Square” to scan it whole, per the original, and posted it along with the easily made color inversion..
Hello, Jan,
This is Ann Noel. The “Alphabet Square”was the score for a performance Emmett and I made at the Akademie der Kuenste in Berlin in 1984, where we performed all 28 alphabets, playing games with lists we’d made up or had used before. I made a handwritten book from these scores with the title SPIRALE in 1985. It is now being published by ARGOBOOKS in Berlin. Live long enough! Greetings!
Excellent post. I have known Emmett’s work since my toime at the Emily Harvey Gallery. I was the manager from 1988-92.
That’s where the Emily Harvey Foundation had a memorial for Emmett in 2007. The “Alphabet Square” was printed on the back of the invitation to the memorial—but cut into four pieces. On the front of the invitation were photos from a 2005 performance by Emmett and his wife Ann Noël of Robert Filliou’s score “13 Ways to use Emmett Williams’ Skull.” Going through old files the other day, I came across the invitation and simply pieced together the four parts of the “Alphabet Square” to scan it whole, per the original, and posted it along with the easily made color inversion..
Hello, Jan,
This is Ann Noel. The “Alphabet Square”was the score for a performance Emmett and I made at the Akademie der Kuenste in Berlin in 1984, where we performed all 28 alphabets, playing games with lists we’d made up or had used before. I made a handwritten book from these scores with the title SPIRALE in 1985. It is now being published by ARGOBOOKS in Berlin. Live long enough! Greetings!
Nice to hear from you. It’s been a thousand years. Thanks for the info.