Emergency INDEX: An Annual Document of Performance Practice | Vol. 2

Editors: Yelena Gluzman and Sophia Cleary

Publisher: Ugly Duckling Prese (2013)

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.

"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