Clairvoyance (for Those in the Desert)

Joanna Frueh is a performance artist, writer, scholar, and teacher. For more than twenty-five years, she has performed one-woman shows throughout the United States and abroad. She is Professor of the Practice of Art at the University of Arizona and Professor of Art History Emerita at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the author of Swooning Beauty: A Memoir of Pleasure; Monster/Beauty: Building the Body of Love; Erotic Faculties; and Hannah Wilke: A Retrospective. She is a coeditor of Picturing the Modern Amazon; New Feminist Criticism: Art, Identity, Action; and Feminist Art Criticism: An Anthology. Her art, essays, and criticism have appeared in many publications, including Art Journal, New Art Examiner, Art in America, Artforum, Hypatia, and High Performance. Frueh lives in Tucson, Arizona.Jill O’Bryan is an independent scholar and artist. She is the author of Carnal Art: Orlan’s Refacing.

• Acknowledgments ixNota Bena xvFucking Hot: An Introduction / Jill O'Brien 4Joanna Frueh's Writing The Concupiscent Critic (1979) 51BRUMAS (1982) Lyrics and text by Joanna Frueh, music by Thomas Hochheiser 57Justifiable Anger (1982–83) ) Lyrics and text by Joanna Frueh, music by Thomas Hochheiser 76Dual Conception (1983) Written by Joanna Frueh for a piece to be performed by Frueh and Thomas Kochheiser 93Solar Shores (1984) ) Lyrics and text by Joanna Frueh, music by Thomas Hochheiser 108A Few Erotic Faculties (1985–86) 121Clairvoyance (For Those in The Desert) (1985–86) ) Lyrics and text by Joanna Frueh, music by Thomas Hochheiser 152Breathing (1988) A Proposal for a Performance by Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley, written by Frueh 168Vermilion (1988) 169Mouth Piece (1989) 180Amazing Grace (1990) Written and Performed by Joanna Frueh and Russell Dudley 209Pythia (1994) 225Dressing Aphrodite (1997) 251Sade, My Sweet, My Truffle; or, Giving a Fuck (1999) 278The Aesthetics of Orgasm (2002) 287Voyaging to Cythera (2003) 312The Performance of Pink (2003) 319Ambrosia (2004) 326Shaking out the Dead: An Afterword by Joanna Frueh 337Joanna Frueh Performance Chronology (1979-2005) 353Key Readings from Joanna Frueh's Childhood to the Present 363

“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)