A bible of performance art activity.
Martha Wilson
Emergency INDEX: An Annual Document of Performance Practice, vol. 9
Emergency INDEX Contributors
Edited by Zoe Guttenplan
December 2020
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.
INDEX Vol. 9 presents 310 works from 55 countries performed during 2019, documented in the words of their creators.
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
Zoe Guttenplan works as an editor, designer, and letterpress printer. Her interest in archiving performance was sparked when studying communes throughout history, and their stagings of Shakespeare’s plays. She co-edits Emergency INDEX.
Links
To see back issues of INDEX and search across annual volumes by terms, performers, geography, and more, please see the new Emergency INDEX website.
INDEX history and the release of INDEX 6 at the Kitchen, in whitehot magazine.
Yelena Guzman on editing Emergency INDEX, in Contemporary Theater Review.
INDEX has an annual call for performance descriptions to be included in the next issue. Please click here for more information: INDEX Submissions
Bookstores in the UK may find copies distributed by Inpress and Unbound, or order directly from Ugly Duckling Presse at standard discounts.
Publication Details
ISBN: 978-1-946433-84-8
Trade Paperback
Perfect-bound. 672 pp, 6.25 x 8.25 in
Publication Date: December 15 2020
Distribution: Asterism Books (US)
Series: Emergency INDEX #9