Index

Introduction                                       1  
          Douglas Kahn
    1 The World Began With A Sound                 47 
          Stephen Muecke
    2 Imaginary Energies: The Arts Of Perpetuity   57 
          Steven Connor
    3 Photography As Photoenergy                   87 
          Daniel Hackbarth
          James Nisbet
    4 Illuminating Energy And Art In The Early     127
    Twentieth Century And Beyond: From Marcel
    Duchamp To Keith Sonnier
          Linda Dalrymple Henderson
    5 Giacomo Balla's Sound-Images                 171
          David Mather
    6 Leroi-Gourhan's Hall Of Gestures             193
          John Tresch
    7 Energies In The Early Works Of Takis         239
          Melissa Warak
    8 Entropies                                    263
          Caroline A. Jones
    9 Joan Brassil: "The Energy Of The Life        309
    Game"
          Susan Ballard
    10 Book Of Tono-Rhythmology                    331
          Milford Graves
    11 Milpirri: Activating The At-Risk            351
          Jennifer Loureide Biddle
    12 On The Potential For Change: The Play Of    373
    Forces In The Work Of Mario De Vega
          Daniela Silvestrin
    13 Energy Field Performance: Peter Blamey      397
          Douglas Kahn
    14 A Place Where The Unknown Past And The      423
    Emergent Future Meet In A Vibrating
    Soundless Hum: Thoughts On Energy And The
    Contemporary
          Marcus Boon
    15 Mooning Texas                               439
          Michael Taussig
List Of Contributors                               461
Index                                              465