Text from Emmett Williams Interview
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EM: But look at all the festivals of Europe this year and how hard it was to raise a dime in New York for the thirtieth anniversary.
LM: You’re looking at the guy who doesn’t have a dime…[?]
EM: Well, in Europe the museums take the time and other people take the time…[?]
How can an individual, how can you or I take the time out to be propagandists or organizers of these events. I can’t do it.
LM: I only came in contact with Fluxus in ‘69.
EM: But I know through your friendship with George Maciunas that, well, you’re hard core [laughs] ‘cause George was very, very fond of you and your ideas and your role in Fluxus. I remember, I told you the other day, that on his death-bed he was talking about anyone who would ever write about him [?]…you’d be one of them. Ben Vautier and myself, Bob Watts. I felt very good about that, but you were one of those.
LM: Not to wax sentimental, but I certainly loved George and Bob, of course, and the whole thing for me – Fluxus – is people.
“Conversation with Emmett Williams,” which was shot on September 6, 1992 in Wiesbaden, Germany at Michael Berger’s Fluxeum.