All tagged Body Modification
This article takes a critical look at the problematic elements permeating Musafar's legacy of prescribing "primitiveness" for Western malaise.
Parma Ham is a London based artist challenging normative notions of gender and the body.
(Abridged version published in The Conversation 03/07/2019) The Immigration Museum’s new exhibit, Our Bodies, Our Voices, Our Marks, explores the contemporary form of Polynesia’s Tatau alongside the tattoo tradition of Japanese irezumi.
(Published in VICE 12/06/2019) Feris Tergo sessions are designed to explore the murky and macabre space between what unites tattoo, body modification and BDSM.
London-based tattooist Eli and Polish-born tattooist Adam Curly share their respective heavy blackwork journeys.
(abridged version published in VICE, 19/03/18) JILF, a self-described nihilist and practising dominatrix, orchestrates painful and subversive acts with her partners with the aim of eliciting trauma and embracing disgust.
I spoke to participants of Brutal Black about why they chose to engage with amplified tattoo pain.
(VICE online 25/04/17) This is one of the most brutal experiences one can imagine in the field of tattooing, where wills are either broken or solidified. This is the Brutal Black Project, and they’ll “ruin your life”.
(Abridged version first published in DAZED & CONFUSED magazine, 03/03/17) Touka Voodoo has actively used body art and modification to transcend the notion of binaries.
(Things & Ink, issue 12, abridged on VICE online) What began as an intellectual interest in body modification within the context of BDSM ended with 250mls of saline infused into my scrotum and 500mls infused into my girlfriend's breasts.
(Things & Ink, issue 9. Republished in Melbourne Permanent, issue 1) ‘I guess I took it a bit lightly and didn’t explain myself, it was just like “RAAAAAHHH; I’m eating my own head!”
(Things & Ink, issue 6. Republished in Melbourne Permanent, issue 1) "When you’re getting them pierced, it feels pretty brutal. So you can understand the heightened response your body and mind are having to the pain.”
