Rated RX: Sheree Rose With and After Bob Flanagan

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&;The thing that people don&;t understand is that Bob was my invention,&; says Sheree Rose, the oft-overlooked partner of the late &;supermasochist&; performance artist Bob Flanagan. Unpacking this statement is at the heart of this important collection, which seeks to recuperate and showcase Rose&;s contributions as performer, photographer, writer, and cultural innovator. While Rose is mostly known for blurring the boundaries between art and lived experience in the context of her full-time, mistress-slave relationship with Flanagan, Rated RX shifts focus from Flanagan to Rose, presenting a feminist project that critically reassesses the artistic legacies of Sheree Rose.   Curated with attention to queer-crip subjectivities and transgressive feminisms, Rated RX includes essays by and interviews with scholars, artists, and Rose&;s collaborators that address gender politics, archival practices, minority embodiment, and disability in Rose&;s work as well as more than eighty photographs and rare archival materials reflecting Rose&;s recent and past performances. Offering a necessary corrective, Rated RX is the first collection to underscore Sheree Rose as a legendary figure in performance art and BDSM subcultural history, reflecting her lifetime of involvement in documenting the underground and the transformative role her work plays in sexual, subcultural, and art exhibitionism.   RATED RX: Sheree Rose with and after Bob Flanagan, Edited by Yetta Howard Half title page Title page Copyright page Dedication Contents Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION · Performing the Minority Body Archive across Time and Sheree Rose’s Legacy in Underground Art History by YETTA HOWARD Documenting the Underground Minority Bodies in Life-Performance Collection Overview and the Archival Politics of Editing Rated RX Works Cited SECTION 1 · WORDS PART 1 · IN HER OWN WORDS Home by SHEREE ROSE Why Not? by SHEREE ROSE “Love Is Still Possible in This Junky World” A Conversation with Sheree Rose about Her Life with Bob Flanagan by TINA TAKEMOTO Why Kirby Dick Is a “Sick” Prick by SHEREE ROSE PART 2 · COLLABORATIONS AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES Performing Again (after Bob) by TANYA AUGSBURG Los Angeles, 1999 A Common Feminist Plight: The Struggle for Recognition Performance Proposal “Safety Precautions” Nailed, Again! at Arizona State University, March 10, 2000 Entering Danforth Chapel The Performance Program Mise-en-scène and Pre-Performance Opening Remarks Nailed, Again!: The Performance I. PROCESSIONAL II. INVOCATION III. TRANSFIGURATION IV. SACRIFICE V. REDEMPTION VI. RECESSIONAL Postscript, 2018 Recorded Leftovers: Digesting Sheree Rose’s Video Archive by LUKA FISHER Sheree, Bob, and Me: Performing Painful Histories by MARTIN O’BRIEN The Scar: A Beginning S Is for Sheree S Is for Slave S Is for Substitute S Is for Sick A Sermon on Sickness According to Martin S Is for Survival Works Cited Rose/Flanagan/O’Brien: The Aesthetics of Resurrection by AMELI A JONES Goodbye Bob The Ascension Works Cited Obliquely Chronophilic: A Dialogue with Sheree Rose and Martin O’Brien on Do with Me as You Will—A 24-Hour Performance by YETTA HOWARD Sheree Rose, the Maternal, and the Erotics of Care by AMBER MUSSER Works Cited “You Always Hurt the One You Love”: Transference, Pain, and Endurance by CHELSEA COON Works Cited Artist’s Statement for An Illegal Operation for Mary Toft by RHIANNON AARONS Sheree Rose, Martin O’Brien, and Rhiannon Aarons on Philosophy in the Bedroom and The Viewing by YETTA HOWARD The Viewing: Supermasochism and Sanctification by RHIANNON AARONS Works Cited PART 3 · PERFORMATIVE WRITING Oatmeal and Shit: Some Notes on Mundanity by MARY ANN DAVIS Works Cited Bob Flanagan Sentenced by HAROLD JAFFE The Duchess of LA by JANE DELYNN Contributors SECTION 2 · IMAGES PART 1 · 1980s–1990s Commitments, Consent, Contracts Public/Private Exhibition(ist)s Visiting Hours (1992–1995) Bobballoon (1996) Music, Literary, and Sexual Subcultures Breathing Space PART 2 · 1999–2018 Nailed, Again! (1999–2000) Do with Me as You Will / Make Martin Suffer for Art (2013) 100 Reasons (2014) Corpse Pose (2014) Dust to Dust (2015) Philosophy in the Bedroom (2016) The Viewing (2016) An Illegal Operation for Mary Toft (2017) The Ascension (2017) SECTION 3 · APPENDICES: Out-of-Print Publications about Sheree Rose by Bob Flanagan Slave Sonnets (1986) by BOB FLANAGAN, COVER BY MIKE KELLEY Fuck Journal (1982) by BOB FLANAGAN January February March April May June July August September October December