Fwd: Emergency INDEX

[T. Nikki Cesare]

An intriguing international resource for performers:

PLEASE DISSEMINATE WIDELY.


Ugly Duckling Presse hereby introduces Emergency INDEX, a new print
publication documenting performance events, in the words of their creators.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

See the website for more information: www.emergencyindex.com.

T. Nikki Cesare
Assistant Professor
Graduate Centre for Study of Drama
University College Drama Program
Associate Member, Graduate Faculty, Faculty of Music
University of Toronto

Critical Acts Editor, TDR: The Drama Review
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/dram

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