What is Fakir Musafar?
{{Infobox person | name = Fakir Musafar | other_names = | image = Fakir Musafar.JPG | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = Roland Loomis | birth_date = {{birth date|1930|08|10}} | birth_place = [[Aberdeen, South Dakota]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|mf=yes|2018|8|1|1930|8|10}} | death_place = [[Menlo Park, California]], U.S. | known = | occupation = | title = | religion = | spouse = Cléo Dubois | partner = | children = | relations = | website = [http://www.fakir.org www.Fakir.org] | footnotes = }} '''Roland 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.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sHuXQtYrNPYC&dq=fakir+musafar&pg=PT201 | title=Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology | isbn=9780262731584 | last1=Wilson | first1=Stephen | date=28 February 2003 }}</ref> He worked with and taught [[body modification]] techniques such as [[body piercing]], [[tightlacing]], [[scarification]], [[tattooing]], and [[flesh hook suspension]]. In May 2018, Musafar announced on his website that he was suffering from terminal [[lung cancer]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fakir.org/letterfromfakir.html|title=Farewell from Fakir|website=www.fakir.org}}</ref> He died from the disease on August 1, 2018 in [[Menlo Park, California]], aged 87.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://infinitebody.com/blogs/news/r-i-p-fakir-musafar|title=R.I.P. Fakir Musafar|website=Infinite Body Piercing, Inc.}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/taboo/ National Geographic documentary Taboo] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060111090000/http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/taboo/ |date=2006-01-11 }} * [http://www.bodyplay.com/fakir/ Biography] * [http://www.bmezine.com/news/people/A10101/fakir2.html Body Modification E-zine interview] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090904012