March 12, 2007

Crush My Soul, Make Me Feel

Still from “Happiness in Slavery” “Crush my soul, make me feel” definitely applied to Bob Flanagan. He was a BDSM performance artist; Wikipedia says BDSM stands for “bondage & discipline,” “dominination & submission,” and “sadism & masochism.” I know virtually nothing about these things, and what little I’ve seen of Flanagan’s work makes me wince....