Fakir Musafar
Fakir Musafar | |
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Born | Roland Loomis August 10, 1930 Aberdeen, South Dakota, U.S. |
Died | August 1, 2018 Menlo Park, California, U.S. | (aged 87)
Occupation | Performance artist |
Works | Body Play |
Movement | Modern primitive |
Spouse | Cléo Dubois |
Website | www.Fakir.org |
Roland Loomis (August 10, 1930 – August 1, 2018[1]), known professionally as Fakir Musafar, was an American performance artist considered to be one of the founders of the modern primitive movement.[2][3]
Life
Born Roland Loomis, at age 4, he claimed to have experienced dreams of
In the 1985 documentary Dances Sacred and Profane, he was shown walking while wearing a device that pressed many small skewers into his upper body, and hanging from a tree by hooks in his chest, in his modified versions of other cultures' sacred ceremonies.[5] He was an extra ('Man in hotel room') in Die Jungfrauen Maschine (The Virgin Machine) in 1988,[7] and in 1991, he appeared in My Father Is Coming as Fakir.[8] He was featured in the 1989 book Modern Primitives,[5] which documented, propagated, and became influential in the modern body modification subcultures.
In 1990, he married Cléo Dubois.
Illness and death
In May 2018, Loomis announced on his website that he was suffering from terminal lung cancer.[14] He died on the morning of 1 August 2018.[15] His death was initially announced in a public Facebook post by his wife Cléo Dubois, and later confirmed by an obituary in Artforum.[1]
Tributes
The
Bibliography
- Fakir Musafar: Spirit + Flesh, Arena Editions, 2004, ISBN 1-892041-57-X
See also
- Domination & submission (BDSM)
- Risk-aware consensual kink
- Sadomasochism
- Safe, sane and consensual
- Sexual fetishism
Notes
- ^ a b "Fakir Musafar (1930–2018)". ArtForum. 2 August 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
- ^ Gauntlet – decorating the Modern Primitive Archived 2007-05-20 at archive.today
- ISBN 9780262731584. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
- ^ Voices from the Edge (1997), David Jay Brown & Rebecca McCLen Novick
- ^ a b c d e f g "Fakir Musafar: passion for piercing, tattooing and corseting". Smh.com.au. 14 August 2018. Retrieved 2020-04-25.
- ISBN 978-0-940642-14-0
- ^ "Die Jungfrauen Maschine (1988)". imdb.com. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
- ^ "My Father Is Coming (1991)". imdb.com/. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
- ^ "leatherarchives.org". Leather Archive & Museum. Archived from the original on 22 June 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- ^ Daniel E. Slotnik (13 August 2018). "Fakir Musafar, Whose 'Body Play' Went to Extremes, Dies at 87 - The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-04-25.
- ^ "Bodyplay.com". Body Play Magazine's Website. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- ^ Body Play #4, 1992, "The Unique Piercings of Erik Dakota"
- ^ Voices from the Edge (1997), David Jay Brown & Rebecca McCLen Novick
- ^ "Farewell from Fakir". www.fakir.org. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
- ^ Slotnik, D. E., "Fakir Musafar, Whose ‘Body Play’ Went to Extremes, Dies at 87", The New York Times, Aug 13, 2018.
- ^ "About the LA&M - Leather Archives & Museum". Leatherarchives.org. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
- ^ "Exhibitions - Leather Archives & Museum". Leatherarchives.org. Archived from the original on 2010-04-22. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
- ^ "Chicago's Leather Museum Is a Love Letter to a Misunderstood Queer Subculture". Them. 2019-10-29. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
- ^ "List of winners". NLA International. 2019-03-14. Archived from the original on 2020-01-03. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
- ^ "> Inductees". Leatherhalloffame.com. Retrieved 2019-12-31.
- ^ "Society of Janus". Erobay. 2019-07-20. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
References
- Biography
- Body Modification E-zine interview Archived 2009-09-04 at the Wayback Machine
- National Geographic documentary Taboo
External links
- Excerpt of interview - Discusses modern primitives, from RE/Search