Jackson Mac Low | |
|---|---|
 Mac Low, photographed by Gloria Graham during the video taping of Add-Verse, 2003 | |
| Died | December 8, 2004 (aged 81–82) |
| Education | University of Chicago; Brooklyn College |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, performance artist, composer and playwright |
| Spouse(s) |
Iris Lezak (m. 1962–1978) |
Jackson Mac Low (1922 – December 8, 2004)[1] was an American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright, known to most readers of poetry as a practitioner of systematic chance operations and other non-intentional compositional methods in his work, which Mac Low first experienced in the musical work of John Cage, Earle Brown, and Christian Wolff. He was married to the artist Iris Lezak from 1962 to 1978, and to the poet Anne Tardos from 1990 until his death.
An early affiliate of Fluxus[2] (he co-published An Anthology of Chance Operations) and stylistic progenitor[3] of the Language poets, Mac Low cultivated ties with an eclectic array of notable figures in the postwar American avant-garde, including Nam June Paik, Kathy Acker, Allen Ginsberg, and Arthur Russell.[4] His work has been published in more than 90 anthologies and periodicals and read publicly, exhibited, performed, and broadcast in North and South America, Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. He read, performed, and lectured in New York and throughout North America, Europe, and New Zealand, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Asnières, Paris, Bouliac (near Bordeaux), Marseilles, Buffalo, Philadelphia, and New York.
- ^ Margalit Fox (December 10, 2004). "Jackson Mac Low, 82, Poet and Composer, Dies". The New York Times. p. A 39. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ Dumett, Mari (August 22, 2017). Corporate Imaginations: Fluxus Strategies for Living. University of California Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-520-29038-9.
- ^ "Obituary: Jackson MacLow". TheGuardian.com. December 20, 2004.
- ^ "Register of Jackson Mac Low Papers - MSS 180". Archived from the original on June 14, 2012. Retrieved September 25, 2012.