A Body To Live In - LIMITED Fakir Musafar Collage Shirt

Extremely limited online sale.

Shirt design commissioned by Angelo Madsen for his film: A Body to Live In. All images come from scans of archival materials relating to Fakir Musafar.

Shirts are printed on super-soft 100% cotton Bella Canvas blanks in three colors: Natural, Newsprint Gray, and Lilac.

A Body To Live In is a feature film that traces the life and work of legendary photographer, performer, and "Gender Flex" cultural icon, Fakir Musafar (1930-2018). Through investigating the body modification movement and the trajectory of Fakir’s art career and philosophy, A BODY TO LIVE IN uncovers a controversial and riveting facet of queer history. Using Fakir’s early experiments in body play and his photographic works from the 1940s and 50s as a springboard, the film traces the body modification movement as it emerged in LGBT subculture in the early 1970s. The film introduces us to early collaborative experimentation at gay underground BDSM parties, leading to the first piercing shop, moving through the radical faerie movement and the role of body modification during the AIDS epidemic, the emergence of body-based performance art, and the rise of an entire subculture. Insights from key figures including Annie Sprinkle, Ron Athey, Cléo Dubois, Jim Ward, Midori, and others provoke deeper reflections about art making, surviving AIDS, and the questionable collaging of various spiritual and cultural practices to build a philosophy. Captured in static 16mm film portraits, A BODY TO LIVE IN unfolds conversationally between Fakir’s archive of 100+ hours of unseen footage, and the voices of the canonical elders of this movement, to create intergenerational dialog, question cultural responsibility, and provoke larger ideas about the drive to transcend the limits of the body.

​Featuring: Fakir Musafar, Cléo Dubois, Ron Athey, Annie Sprinkle, Jim Ward, V. Vale, Paul King, Midori, Yossie, Ganymede, Sam and Rig.​