#emergencyindex

[spikow]

I was super pumped to get the newest volume of @Emergency_Index I love this publication. I love that it doesn’t try to take a curatorial stance on the hierarchy of performance art, it doesn’t even try to define what performance art is, it just gives artists a chance to share their performance documentation in the form of writing. There are performances submitted from all over the world. You can travel the world through the lens of performance art from reading these pages. These volumes come out each year. But this particular volume is special to me because many people I think are awesome have work in it! @intheshowersorry @upspiralcreative @cosmicmoustachecomics and @future.clint @laurencsudbrink and of course how special to have Spikow2 in this volume. I had to privilege of being part of a lot of incredible performances in 2019 - it was impossible to decide which one to submit. But Spikow2 was such a weird and magical event that involved so many important people to us. I felt compelled to put it out there into the world and declare to the world we will find away to produce Spikow3 the reenactment opera in 2024. I have missed live performance so much this year. Which is why I was so excited to get this book and read and dream about time based art. I think I decided that a 2021 goal for me is to read a performance in this book everyday and maybe even respond to some. Note: Kat Burke is listed as a performer for my performance #spikow2 in this publication. After this performance was submitted to the publication Kat changed their name is Jasper Rose! :) @incisorz #performanceart #performance #artpublication #emergencyindex #emergencyindexvolume9 #artists #magic https://www.instagram.com/p/CJXrNxWBnKs/?igshid=j9613heer1y7

[spikow]

Well this is my new favorite book! I am so excited that the performance @lady_thunder_maker and I did at @thebldg is featured in @emergency_index vol. 8 (yellow) along with a performance my amazing former performance student and intern @incisorz did (purple) -(3 @artacademyofcincinnati alums! ) also my fabulous friend and former classmate @cuquitathecubandoll ‘s performance (green)that she did @pique.gallery last year ( 2 @saicfashiondesign alums!) #performanceart #documentarion #performance #emergencyindex #gallery #artists #amazing #book #artbook #greatminds https://www.instagram.com/p/B6MXcvdhObF/?igshid=19rec1wot6xbd

[localinda]

Yo. My name is in both of these. ⚡🌟🙌 Emergency Index published #rhiannonaarrons & Sheree Rose' @msrosebush performance, Illegal Operation. I was a Nurse in the performance 🏥 With @dulcinea.circelli.official @kayla.tange @bob.marie_loose.boobs_scarlet Artist, Art, and Story is a yearly collection of stories by artists coordinated by Karrie Ross. My story about my piece PRISM is in this year's book. 👸💗🌟👑 . . . . . . . . . . #emergencyindex #artistartandstory #karrieross #illegaloperation #alizabejarano #published #losangelesartist #performanceart #collection #arte #contemporaryart #writing https://www.instagram.com/p/Bur8Ji4Fb0-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=d5v3gjlvkd8e

[nathanielwyrick]

Just got back from Canada and I got my copy of @emergency_index Volume 6. My performance is documented among some really great performance artists around the globe! And I’m so excited to be in such great company with many wonderful artists I know personally. Everyone should go purchase a copy from @uglyducklingpresse so you can enjoy and read up on some really wonderful performance art documentation. #documentation #performanceart #emergencyindex #supportart #supportartists (at Nathaniel Wyrick Studio)

[dreamtigering]

In August 2015, Emergency Index published its 4th volume, with a contribution by DREAM TIGERS titled “CONVERSING UNDER A BLANKET WITH A PATCH OF SKY STUCK IN A MIRROR,” which chronicles their performance in November of 2014 at the Failure Festival in Boulder, CO:

“DREAM TIGERS sought to perform a conversation of failure within the context of the 2014 Failure Festival curated by HOARDED STUFF, who said of FF: “This is a celebration and an acknowledgment of the fact that when things inevitably don’t go as we plan, somehow, we must adapt.” We learned to adapt.

Just as a book begins with its Table of Contents, we listed and mapped out the arrangement of materials on the table for our performance. We considered what would go on top of the table, underneath it; what would be bagged, dropped, and discarded into a suitcase.

In preparing for the performance, we realized that the performance itself was in a continuous state of preparation. In this way we never began. We faced the paradox of the plan: how does one prepare to fail? Furthermore, how does one perform failure?

We set out to perform for 3 hours (the length of one festival night); the actual duration became closer to 5 hours in total. Recordings of previous conversations of failure were to play continuously throughout the performance. The disembodied voices became an object – a prop.

On the day of the festival, we were informed that we could no longer hold the space in the parking lot. This failure would precipitate the nature of the rest of the performance as a series of trials and errors. By eliminating that space, everything became our space.

Every thirty minutes a timer would go off and be restarted. We would announce “DREAM TIGERS WILL BEGIN IN 30 MINUTES,” while writing these words in charcoal on sheets of butcher paper. We would get undressed and redressed in front of mirrors. We became acutely aware of time within our bodies: it was only through duration and repetition that we were able to predict when the timer would go off.

We utilized a table with wheels - this meant that the demarcations of time were also demarcations of space. Time affected our mobility. For each increment, we mapped out a “station” on the periphery of the Madelife building where we would attempt to trace our shadows in charcoal: one of us would hold a floodlight while the other attempted to trace their silhouette.

The audience members initially participated before becoming the directive force of the performance. They decided our props were their props; they decided our bodies were props. The conversational aspect of the performance was abandoned in favor of direct interaction. A failure to be silent allowed the performance a voice of its own.

In the end the performance performed us. The performance of failure and planning to fail inevitably invites more failure. As if the performance could exist both inside and outside of a beginning, in a perpetual state of becoming.”

[junablog]

My art practice isn't doing so bad either. Catch the conclusion to my one year project at my first solo show at Defibrillator Gallery on Tues. Nov. 26, 8pm! Details: http://bit.ly/junaDFB #published #emergencyindex #performanceart #chicago #books #art (at Defibrillator Gallery)