Fakir & Cleo were last seen in the UK at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1995, where they took part in the Rapture series. This remarkable series of events and performances brought together different artists working with their bodies, including Ron Athey, Franko B and Orlan.Fakir also appeared alongside these other artists in a South Bank Show special on Body Art in 1998.
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Since then body-based Live Art has grown in popularity, with the emergence of a new generation of artists including Kira O’Reilly, Lee Adams and Dominic Johnson -- some of whom will be taking part in a discussion about live aert at the Chelsea theatre during this tour.
"My body is mine to use. It is my media, my own personal living canvas, living clay – to mould and shape and mark as an artful expression of the life-energy that flows through it." Fakir in 1998
Fakir Musafar is the father of the Modern Primitives movement. He is famous worldwide for his sixty years of research and personal exploration of primitive body decoration and rituals. Fakir has introduced concepts and practices for the "body-first" approach to exploring spirituality in art, body modification, SM and what he calls "body play".
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