Fakir Musafar - Wikipedia
WEBRoland 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.
Fakir Musafar, Whose ‘Body Play’ Went to Extremes, Dies at 87
WEBAug 13, 2018 · Fakir Musafar first found pleasure in pain as a teenager named Roland Loomis in his family’s basement in the mid-1940s. It was the beginning of a lifelong passion for piercing, branding,...
About Fakir Musafar
WEBFakir Musafar is known worldwide for his fifty years of research and personal exploration of primitive body decoration and rituals. Fakir introduced concepts and practices for the "body-first" approach to explore spirituality in art, body modifications, SM and what he called "body play".
The untold story behind the father of contemporary body modification is ...
WEBJan 9, 2021 · Many have traced the Western inception of this phenomenon to the iconoclastic spirit of one individual—Fakir Musafar. Born Roland Loomis, the ex-advertising executive turned self-proclaimed shaman took his name from a nineteenth century Sufi who spent eighteen years with daggers piercing his body.
Fakir Musafar - Obituary
WEBFakir Musafar, an icon of the modern body modification culture, died at his home in Menlo Park August 1. He announced in May that he was fighting advanced lung cancer. He was 87.
Fakir Musafar, guru to piercers, tattooers and other ‘body play ...
WEBAug 14, 2018 · Fakir Musafar, a gasp-inducing practitioner and leading advocate of “body play” — the term he used to describe piercing, branding, tattooing, footbinding, corseting, body suspension and...
Fakir Musafar, ad man turned body piercing pioneer, dies
WEBAug 17, 2018 · Musafar, born Roland Loomis and known as a pioneer of body piercing and as the “Father of Modern Primitives,” died Aug. 1 of lung cancer in his Menlo Park home. He was 87.
Fakir Musafar - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
WEBRoland Loomis (August 10, 1930 – August 1, 2018), known professionally as Fakir Musafar, was an American performance artist and early artist of the modern primitive movement. [1] He worked with and taught body modification techniques such as body piercing, tightlacing, scarification, tattooing, and flesh hook suspension .
FAKIR MUSAFAR (1930–2018) - Artforum
WEBAug 2, 2018 · Fakir Musafar, a performance artist, photographer, pain guru, and Silicon Valley salesman who sought transcendence by piercing and constricting his body in extreme ways, has died at age eighty-seven. The cause was lung cancer.
With hooks embedded in his chest muscles, his face seemed ... - WIRED
WEBAug 17, 2018 · Probably the most influential body-art pioneer RE/Search ever encountered was Fakir Musafar, who by his deeds seems to have tried every possible body modification known to mankind – thanks to...
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