Jackson Mac Low

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Jackson Mac Low (born September 12, 1922 in Chicago , † December 8, 2004 in New York City ) was an American poet , composer and exponent of Fluxus , phonetic poetry and concrete poetry .

life and work

Jackson Mac Low studied from 1939 to 1943 at the University of Chicago and from 1955 to 1958 at Brooklyn College , where he graduated with a bachelor's degree. In 1963 Jackson Mac Low was a participant in the Festum Fluxorum Fluxus in Düsseldorf. He worked with John Cage several times . Mac Low taught as visiting professor at Mannes College of Music in New York City and was professor at New York University from 1966 to 1973 . He lectured at numerous universities. From 1992 to 1993 Jackson Mac Low worked at the “Schule für Dichtung” (School for Poetry) in Vienna.

Jackson Mac Low was a composer, wrote essays and was a representative of sound poetry , concrete poetry, performances . He created several radio plays that were produced by WDR . The marriage with the painter Iris Lezak lasted from 1962 to 1978, the couple had a son in 1963 and a daughter in 1966. From 1964 to 1980 he took part in the Annual Avant Garde Festival of New York , which was organized by Charlotte Moorman . From the early 1980s to 2004, Mac Low worked with his second wife, the multimedia artist Anne Tardos , with whom he married in 1990. In November 1998 he released For Dick Higgins with Anne Tardos in New York. He worked with the composer Pauline Oliveros on some projects, for example Homage to Leona Bleiweiss .

Dialog Among Poets (produced by WDR in 1982) was shown at documenta 8 in Kassel.

“Dialogue among poets”: an acoustic collage of ten randomly edited texts by American and German poets and a Tibetan mantra by Jackson Mac Low . Mac Low is using his experience with the "simultaneities" he has developed since the 1950s for the first time in the radio play, combined with multi-track technology . "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b poets Jackson Mac Low accessed on September 14, 2015 (English)
  2. ↑ a b c New York Times Jackson Mac Low, 82, Poet and Composer, Dies accessed on September 16, 2015 (English)
  3. ↑ New Wilderness Foundation Audiographics Artists Cassettes: 70s - 80s accessed on September 17, 2015 (English)
  4. ↑ The Guardian Pioneer of sound poetry and of multimedia performance art accessed on September 16, 2015 (English)
  5. ↑ documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 336; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Mac Low, Jackson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poet, composer and exponent of Fluxus, phonetic poetry, and concrete poetry
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 2004
Place of death New York City