Description
An issue on the nature of the index as a form, as an operation to be performed, as an ordering relation, a repertoire or register, rubric or catalogue. An issue that explores the use of indexes as a means of recording and generating through alphabetic, numerical or colour schemas; or through measurement, linking, adjustment, tracking and navigation. An issue that explores what indexes can tell us about the textual and performance forms that they relate to, explores their use as something visible, evident or revelatory that gives grounds for believing in the existence or presence of something else. An issue that looks into the index as a means of restriction or censorship of particular readings or performances, or organizes the terms under which performance is debated, discussed, conducted, written about and constructed.
Editorial
Ric Allsopp, David Williams
pp. 3 – 4
Index and the Body of Philosophy: On Derrida’s ‘Performances Without Presence’
Luka Bekavac
pp. 4 – 11
Empty Entries [artist’s pages]
Ric Royer
pp. 12 – 14
Preserving the Performance: Scholarship as Art [Aufführung und Aufzeichnung – Kunst der Wissenschaft?]
Gabriele Brandstetter
pp. 15 – 23
Indexing Death in Seven Xingwei and Zhuangzhi Pieces
Meiling Cheng
pp. 24 – 38
Triple Cased Content: In tandem with a puppet partner [artist’s pages]
Teresa Grimaldi, Mark Leahy
pp. 39 – 42
Deborah Hay: A performance primer
Jim Drobnick
pp. 43 – 57
An Encyclopaedia of Performance Art
Wagner-Feigl-Forschung/Research
pp. 58 – 66
Start where you are: Graphic ordering influences improvisational dance
Katherine Gillieson, Alexis Andrew, Elizabeth MacKinnon
pp. 67 – 74
Inflecting Particles: Locating generative indexes for performance in the interstices of dance and computer science
Norah Zuniga Shaw, Matthew Lewis
pp. 75 – 86
Dividing, Defending, Ordering: Definitions and repercussions of belonging in the term ‘Dancer’
Ralph Buck, Mark Harvey, Alys Longley
pp. 87 – 94
The Vanishing, or Little Erasures without Significance?
Susan Melrose
pp. 95 – 107
The Culture of Performance, Performing and Performance Arts [artist’s pages]
Boris Nieslony
pp. 108 – 109
Directions for Leaving (Part 2)
Michelle Tupko
pp. 110 – 114
A Manifesto for a New Walking Culture
Wrights & Sites
pp. 115 – 122
A Dictionary of Re-received Ideas (Part 2)
pp. 123 – 136
The Case for Bengt af Klintberg: A supplement to re-received ideas
Ken Friedman
pp. 137 – 144
Performance Review: Melting Away
Una Bauer
pp. 145 – 147
Notes on Contributors
pp. 148 – 150
