Emergency INDEX: An Annual Document of Performance Practice, Vol. 7

Emergency INDEX Contributors

Edited by Yelena Gluzman, Sophia Cleary

PERFORMANCE, PERIODICAL  |  $30 $25

December 2018
OUT OF PRINT

A bible of performance art activity.

Martha Wilson

INDEX Vol. 7 presents 260 works from 51 countries performed during 2017, documented in the words of their creators.

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 key 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.

ISSN 2376-4287

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

About the Editor

Yelena Gluzman is a founding member of Ugly Duckling Presse where she is the editor of the Paperless Book Department, curates the Emergency Playscript series, and co-edits Emergency INDEX. Initially studying and working in neuroscience, Yelena began making theater works in 1997 as a continuation of her interest in the mechanisms underlying human behavior. Since 1999, under the initiative called Science Project, Yelena conducts research, makes theater works, performance art works, and site-specific social experiments. In New York, she has shown her works at The Performing Garage, Theater for a New City, the Old American Can Factory, The Collapsable Hole, the Prelude Festival, etc.

Sophia Cleary is a performer and choreographer. She curates the Rehearsal series. She co-edits Emergency INDEX.

 

Links

INDEX history and the release of INDEX 6 at the Kitchen, in whitehot magazine.

Yelena Guzman on editing Emergency INDEX, in Contemporary Theater Review.

 

Submissions

Lifetime subscriptions

Unbound (additional UK distributor)

Publication Details

ISBN: 978-1-946433-21-3
Trade Paperback
Perfect-bound. 560 pp, 6.25 x 8.25 in
Publication Date: December 01 2018
Distribution: Coach House Books via Publishers Group Canada (Canada), Inpress Books (UK), SPD
Series: Emergency INDEX #7