Clarinda Mac Low (they/she) started out working in dance and molecular biology and now creates participatory events investigating social constructs and corporeal experience. They are also a professor in design and technology and a former HIV/AIDS researcher and medical journalist. She is Executive Director of Culture Push, an experimental organization linking artistic practice and civic engagement, and co-founder of Works on Water, a triennial of water art. Mac Low’s work has appeared in NYC and internationally, and includes: “Sunk Shore,” a speculative tour of the future; “Free the Orphans,” spiritual and intellectual implications of intellectual property in a digital age; “Cyborg Nation,” public conversation on the technological body and intimacy; and “The Year of Dance”, a self-ethnography of how unconventional kinship structures form in the NYC dance world. Residencies include MacDowell, Yaddo, and Mount Tremper Arts. Awards include BAX Arts and Artists Award (2004), Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant (2007) and Franklin Furnace grant (2010). Education: BA in Dance and Molecular Biology (Wesleyan University) and MFA in Digital and Interdisciplinary Arts Practice (CCNY-CUNY). From 2022-2024 Mac Low was on staff as an embedded artist at Genspace, a community biology laboratory in Brooklyn, through the Creatives Rebuild New York Artist Employment Program.
photo credit: Hidemi Takagi