An Interview with Clarinda Mac Low
“Clarinda Mac Low grew up in the avant-garde arts scene that flourished in New York City during the 1960s and ‘70s. She began performing with her father, the Fluxus poet and composer Jackson Mac Low, at the age of three, and shortly thereafter performed in Meredith Monk’s 1971 Vessel. Upon graduating from Wesleyan University in 1988 with a dual degree in dance and molecular biology/biochemistry, Mac Low began presenting her hybrid art works in New York City. For the past several years her work has focused on site-specific performances and installations with an emphasis on community, collaboration, antimaterialism, and science. Her current project, Cyborg Nation, is an interactive cyborg prototype for performance, one that will allow audience members to participate as co-creators by accessing the cyborg via cell phones or the Internet. A mobile and mutable project, the first installment of Cyborg Nation was presented at the performance party AUNTS and the second installment will be in the home of an audience member…” Continue reading An Interview with Clarinda Mac Low, by Andrea Kleine, NYFA Current.
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