Clarinda Mac Low at Ciné tonight

You might know Clarinda Mac Low as the daughter of well-known mid-to-late-20th-century poet, composer and playwright Jackson Mac Low. Although her art varies in structure and medium, his influences have generated and fueled her passion for performance art. She started dancing at an early age for her father’s performances and got hooked:

Some of my earliest coherent memories are of performing with Jackson, the adrenaline surge etching the moment into my brain. The performing hasn’t stopped yet, and this is the gift I take with me—a fascination with the immediate and electric connection between me and the audience, the delight in events unfolding in real-time, communally. I mark my life with Jackson in performance intervals

Although her artistic manifestations involve more performance and less poetry than her father's, her art stays within the same philosophical canon. Both Clarinda and Jackson strive to redefine artistic boundaries and find ways to engage in various forms of conversation with the audience, whether it be through the spoken word or physical movements. Clarinda describes her intentions as a performer:

To me, performance is a form of conversation. I aim to make situations where viewer and viewed are mutually affecting and create experiences that wake up body and mind. I do this through reframing our relationship to architectural space and urban public interaction, with interventions into everyday life and infiltrations into unexpected sites in a wide variety of communities

In her latest interactive performance piece, "Cyborg Nation", she wears a costume with a built-in miniature camera, microphone, amplifier, and video projector. The Ciné web site describes the project as an investigation of how “technology both extends and limits our senses by combining remote communication in the form of email and phone messages with one-to-one conversation, providing a twenty-first-century version of the Socratic dialogue." ICE (Ideas for Creative Exploration) presents "Cyborg Nation" in Athens at Ciné. The performance will begin at 7 this evening and last till 9. Admission is free.