Description
Book SynopsisIncludes sixteen colour photographs; images from Joanna in the Desert, a 2006 collaboration between Frueh and the photographer Jill O'Bryan; and several photographs of Frueh performing.
Trade Review“
Clairvoyance (For Those In The Desert) is an artful, insightful, and important collection of performance texts by artist and scholar Joanna Frueh. Indeed,
Clairvoyance could be considered an essential primer for feminists.” -- Joanna Chlebus * Feminist Review blog *
“
Clairvoyance couples the strength of her words and the stage direction, to give the reader quite a vivid look into the life of this exceptional artist.” -- Jenna V. Loceff * Curve *
“[A] a beautiful and very pink 400-page tome that looks great on a coffee table. . . .
Clairvoyance is a great place to start learning about not just 20th-century performance art, but also about one of the more intriguing and unheralded performance artists of our time.” -- Jarret Keene * Tucson Weekly *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Nota Bena xv
Fucking Hot: An Introduction / Jill O'Brien 4
Joanna Frueh's Writing
The Concupiscent Critic (1979) 51
BRUMAS (1982)
Lyrics and text by Joanna Frueh, music by Thomas Hochheiser 57
Justifiable Anger (1982–83) )
Lyrics and text by Joanna Frueh, music by Thomas Hochheiser 76
Dual Conception (1983)
Written by Joanna Frueh for a piece to be performed by Frueh and Thomas Kochheiser 93
Solar Shores (1984)
) Lyrics and text by Joanna Frueh, music by Thomas Hochheiser 108
A Few Erotic Faculties (1985–86) 121
Clairvoyance (For Those in The Desert) (1985–86) )
Lyrics and text by Joanna Frueh, music by Thomas Hochheiser 152
Breathing (1988)
A Proposal for a Performance by Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley, written by Frueh 168
Vermilion (1988) 169
Mouth Piece (1989) 180
Amazing Grace (1990)
Written and Performed by Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley 209
Pythia (1994) 225
Dressing Aphrodite (1997) 251
Sade, My Sweet, My Truffle; or, Giving a Fuck (1999) 278
The Aesthetics of Orgasm (2002) 287
Voyaging to Cythera (2003) 312
The Performance of Pink (2003) 319
Ambrosia (2004) 326
Shaking out the Dead:
An Afterword by Joanna Frueh 337
Joanna Frueh Performance Chronology (1979—2005) 353
Key Readings from Joanna Frueh's Childhood to the Present 363
