Bob Flanagan
Bob Flanagan ( December 27, 1952 - January 4, 1996 ) was an American writer and artist. His life was shaped by the hereditary disease cystic fibrosis : he found his way to counter the pain caused by the disease by using BDSM practices; this confrontation became an essential part of his art. He can be seen as a performance artist in the indexed music video Happiness in Slavery by the band Nine Inch Nails ; he depicts someone who straps himself into a machine that rapes and then kills him. He had a supporting role in the video for Crush My Soul by the band Godflesh , in which he is being hoisted under the ceiling of a cathedral by his wife Sheree Rose hanging upside down as a figure of Christ . The documentation SICK: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist was created about him .
Bibliography (excerpt)
- The Wedding of Everything (1983)
- The Kid is the Man (1978)
- Slave Sonnets (1986)
- Fuck Journal (1987)
- A Taste of Honey (1990)
- Bob Flanagan: Super Masochist (1993) (interviews)
- Pain Journal (unpublished)
Web links
- New York Times obituary, quoted on a private website
- Excerpt from Flanagan's Pain Journal
- Literature by and about Bob Flanagan in the WorldCat bibliographic database
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flanagan, Bob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer and artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1952 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th January 1996 |