Bob Flanagan: Supermasochist
Last copy!
Los Angeles writer and artist Bob Flanagan created performances with partner Sheree Rose which shocked and inspired audiences from Seattle to Boston to Berlin. He combined text, video, and live performance to create a highly personal but universal exploration of childhood, sex, illness, and mortality.
Those who have read the text were overcome by the sincerity, humanity & warmth of Bob Flanagan, R.I.P. In his last days, Bob did a living performance installation at the New Museum in New York City; dozens of people consulted him as a (somewhat humorous) Oracle and Psychiatric Advisor before Cystic Fibrosis took him away…
LAST COPIES! This Book is Very Hard to Find! Bob Flanagan used his body as a laboratory to test out every possible sensation and stimulation! Born in 1952 in New York City, he grew up with Cystic Fibrosis (a genetically inherited, nearly-always fatal disease) and lived longer than almost any other person with CF. The physical pain of his childhood suffering was principally alleviated by masturbation and sexual experimentation, wherein pain and pleasure became inextricably linked, resulting in his lifelong practice of extreme masochism.
