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Performance poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

22 Light Poems / Mac Low, Jackson., 1968

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Identifier: CC-47580-68589
Scope and Contents

The poems in this book were composed by chance operations through a chart made up of words denoting of all kinds of light. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

A Vocabulary For Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim / Mac Low, Jackson., 1968

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Identifier: CC-47565-68574
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The verso is a calligraphic text explaining how the print was made, the exhibition of it and instructions for performing the piece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

A Vocabulary For Sharon Belle Matlin / Mac Low, Jackson., 1973

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Identifier: CC-06771-6890
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive owns the prints (paper, cloth) of the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

A Vocabulary For Sharon Belle Mattlin / Mac Low, Jackson., 1973

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Identifier: CC-47560-68569
Scope and Contents

This is the first of several visual scores created by making words from the letters of a person's name, in this case the title name. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

An Introspective / Hansen, Al ; Hoffmann H ; Cage J ; Artaud A ; Brecht G ; Brus G ; Conz F ; Martin H ; Corner P ; Dine J ; Friedman K ; Ginsberg A ; Hendricks G ; Higgins D ; Hutchinson P ; Kaprow A ; Knowles A ; MacLow J ; Tardos A ; Oldenburg C ; Ox J ; Saito T ; Spoerri D ; Tot E ; Werwerka S ; Whitman R ; Young L ; Zarzeela M., 1996

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Identifier: CC-52526-73654
Scope and Contents This catalogue includes a large number of ephemeral visual/verbal announcements and photographic documentation of happenings. There are several brief essays by artists, poets, and collectors celebrating the life of Hansen who died in 1995. Wikepedia: Alfred Earl "Al" Hansen (5 October 1927 -- 22 June 1995) was an American artist considered as one of the most important Fluxus figures. He was a Norwegian American. Born in New York City, he was a member of the Fluxus art movement and friend to Yoko Ono and John Cage. While serving in Germany in World War II Hansen pushed a piano off the roof of a five story building. This act became the foundation of one of his most recognized performance pieces, the Yoko Ono Piano Drop and inspired artists like Nam June Paik. Hansen was a frequent visitor to The Factory, Andy Warhol's studio in New York. Hansen also studied with and worked with the composer John Cage at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Hansen was perhaps best...
Dates: 1996

Letters For Iris Numbers For Silence; Thanks II / Mac Low, Jackson., 1964

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Identifier: CC-06788-6907
Scope and Contents

Published in Fluxus 1, 1964 although loose sheet is dated 1961. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

LINEbreak. No.10 / Jackson Mac Low ; Charles Bernstein ; Andrews B., 1996

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Identifier: CC-49138-70178
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The recording consists of an interview between Charles Bernstein and Jackson Mac Low who also did a reading. Stored in box containing tape cassette periodicals of Linebreak, Recorthings and Tellus. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Stanzas for Iris Lezak / Mac Low, Jackson ; Ginsberg A ; Burroughs WS., 1971

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Identifier: CC-37917-39797
Scope and Contents

Iris Lezak was Mac Low's lover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

The Pronouns; A collection of forty dances for the dancers / Mac Low, Jackson ; Moore P ; Monk M., 1979

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Identifier: CC-47572-68581
Scope and Contents

Peter Moore took 14 b&w photographs of the dancers that are reproduced in this book. The poems provide loose instructions for dances. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

The Pronouns; A collection of forty dances for the dancers / Mac Low, Jackson ; Moore P ; Monk M., 1979

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Identifier: CC-47573-68582
Scope and Contents

Peter Moore took 14 b&w photographs of the dancers that are reproduced in this book. The poems provide loose instructions for dances. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Two Ensemble Works / Basinski, Michael; MacLow J., 2005

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Identifier: CC-52349-73472
Scope and Contents

The poems in this work are entitled "Elephants Ensembled Poem" and "80th Birthday Event for Jackson Mac Low." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005