A bible of performance art activity.
Martha Wilson
Emergency INDEX: An Annual Document of Performance Practice, vol. 10
Emergency INDEX Contributors
December 2023
The pages of Emergency INDEX are open to all who work with performance. In each annual volume, contributors document works made in the previous year. By including performances regardless of their country of origin, genre, aims, or popularity, INDEX reveals the breathtaking variety of practices used in performance work today. Each volume features a comprehensive index of terms used by contributors in describing and discussing their own work. Begun in 2011, INDEX is a lens for seeing the field of contemporary performance from the ground up. Issue 10/+, encompassing 2020-2021, is Ugly Duckling’s concluding issue before the series moves to a new home.
About the Author
For a list of contributors and more information for each volume, see the Emergency INDEX website here.
If you have a performance venue you may wish to become a Partner Organization and share INDEX with your colleagues; please email emergency@uglyducklingpresse.org for more information.
Praise
This is a bible of performance art activity. And if you are, like I am, a believer in performance art and the value of this ephemeral art activity to change the hearts and minds and consciousness of people, then you need to have this bible in your life. The end.
Martha Wilson
We've been seeing performance art materialize around us, but without feeling that there was a context for such ideas. Artists have been doing such pieces for a long time without much recognition that in fact their ideas are related. Now, with Emergency INDEX, we get the sense of a magical secret shared among many artists. Emergency INDEX is a profoundly important publication. It guides us to a new place.
Robert Ashley
Publication Details
ISBN: 978-1-946604-10-1
Trade Paperback
600 pp, 6.25 x 8.25 in
Publication Date: December 01 2023
Distribution: Asterism Books (US), Inpress Books (UK)
Series: Emergency INDEX #10