Emergency Index, Vol. 3
A printed annual from Ugly Duckling Presse that documents performance works staged in 2013, submitted by their makers and arranged as the editors saw fit. The book is part reference, part archive, part admission that most performance disappears unless someone writes it down. The design is functional, the paper is thin, and the entries range from a sentence to several pages of instructions, diagrams, and excuses. It will not teach you how to see performance, but it will prove how much is being made. The cover is plain in the way of small-press documents that spend their budget on pages rather than display.Ideal reader: the artist who keeps a list of works seen and forgotten, or the researcher who needs evidence that contemporary performance is too various for any single theory.
