An intriguing international resource for performers:<div><div class="gmail_quote"><br>PLEASE DISSEMINATE WIDELY.<br>
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Ugly Duckling Presse hereby introduces Emergency INDEX, a new print publication documenting performance events, in the words of their creators.<br>
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Based on the assumption that performance practice transcends disciplines, Emergency INDEX documents performances of every kind, from any genre, and for any purpose. It is an ambitious attempt to create a durable, print document of the “state of the field” of performance, as practiced by actual works.<br>
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Performances are documented by the creators themselves via an image and description of the piece. Descriptions do not represent the experience of each performance work, but address the structural or tactical aspects of the work. The descriptions are also indexed by keywords. The index links disparate works, and is itself a document of the language used to describe performance.<br>
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Emergency INDEX is modeled after the “Artist’s Chronicle” of the now-defunct art magazine High Performance (1978-1997). In the pages of High Performance, in the 1970s, early performance art defined itself through actual works, as reported by the artists who made them. Emergency INDEX proposes that performance, a field that has exceeded its origins in theater and visual art, is being practiced in various disciplines, using wildly different logic, tactics, structures, and materials. INDEX is an attempt to document and disseminate the variety of performance being made today.<br>
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The inaugural volume of Emergency INDEX is forthcoming in 2012. To capture changes and advances in the field, a new volume of INDEX will be published yearly.<br>
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The editors are currently accepting submissions describing performance works created and performed in 2011. Additionally, if you are interested in participating in an editorial capacity, or making the printed volume of INDEX available at your school, library, or art center, please contact the editors.<br>
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See the website for more information: <a href="http://www.emergencyindex.com" target="_blank">www.emergencyindex.com</a>.<br>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">T. Nikki Cesare<br>Assistant Professor</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Graduate Centre for Study of Drama</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">University College Drama Program</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Associate Member, Graduate Faculty, Faculty of Music</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">University of Toronto</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Critical Acts Editor, TDR: The Drama Review<br><a href="http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/dram" target="_blank">http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/dram</a><br>
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