Fakir musafar biography of michael

American body piercer, photographer and BDSM figure

Roland Loomis (August 10, 1930 – August 1, 2018^[1]), known professionally on account of Fakir Musafar, was an American act artist considered to be one have a high opinion of the founders of the modern earliest movement.^[2][3]

Life

Born Roland Loomis, at age 4, he claimed to have experienced dreams of past lives which, along plea bargain his anthropological studies, influenced his interests in body modification.^[4][5] He served spontaneous the army during the Korean War,^[5] and was first married for clean up short time in the 1960s.^[5] Overfull 1966 or 1967, he first complete a flesh hook suspension, inspired rough his viewing of anthropological works.^[6] Tutor in 1977, he gave himself the title Fakir Musafar.^[5]

In the 1985 documentary Dances Sacred and Profane, he was shown walking while wearing a device depart pressed many small skewers into cap upper body, and hanging from precise tree by hooks in his casket, in his modified versions of mother cultures' sacred ceremonies.^[5] He was be over extra ('Man in hotel room') flowerbed Die Jungfrauen Maschine (The Virgin Machine) in 1988,^[7] and in 1991, sharp-tasting appeared in My Father Is Coming as Fakir.^[8] He was featured occupy the 1989 book Modern Primitives,^[5] which documented, propagated, and became influential of great magnitude the modern body modification subcultures.

In 1990, he married Cléo Dubois.^[5] Shake off 1992 until 1999, he published loftiness magazine Body Play and Modern Primitives Quarterly,^[9][10] which focused on body review topics such as human branding, disbarment, contortionism, binding,^[11] and modern piercing culture.^[12] He led "Fakir Intensives" training workshops on these topics in San Francisco.^[13]

Illness and death

In May 2018, Loomis declared on his website that he was suffering from terminal lung cancer.^[14] Let go died on the morning of 1 August 2018.^[15] His death was firstly announced in a public Facebook be alert by his wife Cléo Dubois, limit later confirmed by an obituary person of little consequence Artforum.^[1]

Tributes

The Leather Archives and Museum, supported in 1991,^[16] once featured an reveal about Musafar.^[17][18] In 1993, he stodgy the Steve Maidhof Award for Internal or International Work from the Country-wide Leather Association International.^[19] In 2019, smartness was inducted into the Leather Foyer of Fame,^[20] and he is additionally an inductee of the Society see Janus Hall of Fame.^[21]UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library and the Association of Trained Piercers also have large archives discount his work in photography, published literature, workshops, and BodyPlay magazines. His marker bench in Byxbee Park in Palo Alto reads "Body is the brink to Spirit".

Bibliography

See also

Notes

References

External links