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Doings : assorted performance pieces, 1955-2002 / Jackson Mac Low.

by Mac Low, Jackson.

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New York City : Granary Books, 2005.

Mac Low, Jackson

Performance art -- Texts.

Artists' books -- Specimens.

Electronic Resource

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0420/2004016770.html

Electronic Resource

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366257

Electronic Resource

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/498381

1887123709 (alkaline paper)

9781887123709 (alkaline paper) :

266 pages (some folded) : illustrations, music ; 28 cm + 1 compact disc in card stock jacket (13 x 14 cm) and 1 original silkscreen print (24 cm)

CD: MerzMix -- Milarepa Quartet for Four Like Instruments -- Guru-Guru Gatha -- A Piece for Sari Dienes -- The 1st Milarepa Gatha -- Tara Gatha -- Four Vocabulary Gathas in Memoriam Armand Schwerner -- Black Tarantula Crossword Gathas -- A Vocabulary for Sharon Belle Mattlin -- 5th Bluebird Asymmetry -- Refrigerator Defrosting**; Pseudoglossolalia -- Free Gatha 1 and Free Gatha 2 -- Vocabulary for Malcolm Goldstein -- Gatha in C for Theresa Salomon -- Phonemicon from "Hereford Bosons 1".

"Termed 'America's most indefatigable experimental poet' by Publishers Weekly, Jackson Mac Low (1922-2004) was recognized internationally as a master innovator for nearly five decades. Doings: Assorted Performance Pieces 1955-2002 presents a comprehensive collection of the poet's handwritten, drawn, typographic, and musical notations--works composed through non-intentional methods and which operate simultaneously as visual art, literature, and scores for performance. The book includes detailed performance instructions as well as notes on the specific procedures of composition through which the works were created. The curious reader finally has access to some of the most important yet most elusive works within Mac Low's oeuvre, including many examples of the 'Gathas,' 'Vocabularies,' 'Asymmetries,' 'Light Poems' and more. Doings performs the dual task of sourcebook and Baedeker, a looking glass through which to see both where we've been and where we're going as we sift through the radical poetries of the postmodern era looking for renewal, for the inevitable path to the future."--Publisher's website.

Performance scores written, drawn, and composed over 47 years are accompanied by instructions and commentary.

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