Fakir musafar biography
Roland Loomis (August 10, – August 1, ), known professionally as Fakir Musafar, was an American performance artist considered to be one of the....
Fakir Musafar
American body piercer, photographer and BDSM figure
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 past lives which, along with his anthropological studies, influenced his interests in body modification.[4][5] He served in the army during the Korean War,[5] and was first married for a short time in the 1960s.[5] In 1966 or 1967, he first performed a flesh hook suspension, inspired by his viewing of anthropological works.[6] In 1977, he gave himself the name Fakir Musafar.[5]
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 fro