Editing Fakir Musafar (section)

{{Short description|American body piercer, photographer and BDSM figure}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Fakir Musafar
| other_names        = 
| image              = Dances-kavadiBIG.jpg
| imagesize          = 
| caption            = Musafar in 1982
| birth_name         = Roland Loomis
| birth_date         = {{birth date|1930|08|10}}
| birth_place        = [[Aberdeen, South Dakota]], U.S.
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|mf=yes|2018|8|1|1930|8|10}}
| death_place        = [[Menlo Park, California]], U.S.
| known              = 
| occupation         = [[Performance art]]ist
| title              = 
| spouse             = Cléo Dubois
| partner            = 
| children           = 
| relations          = 
| works               = ''[[Body Play]]''
| movement           = [[Modern primitive]]
| website            = [http://www.fakir.org www.Fakir.org]
| footnotes          = 
}}

'''Roland Loomis''' (August 10, 1930 – August 1, 2018<ref name=artforum>{{cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/news/fakir-musafar-1930-2018-76131|title=Fakir Musafar (1930–2018)|work=ArtForum|access-date=3 August 2018|date=2 August 2018}}</ref>), known professionally as '''Fakir Musafar''', was an American performance artist considered to be one of the founders of the [[modern primitive]] movement.<ref>[http://gauntlet.ucalgary.ca/story/5541 Gauntlet – decorating the Modern Primitive] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20070520193215/http://gauntlet.ucalgary.ca/story/5541 |date=2007-05-20 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sHuXQtYrNPYC&q=fakir+musafar&pg=PT201 |title=Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology - Stephen Wilson - Google Books |isbn=9780262731584 |access-date=2020-04-24|last1=Wilson |first1=Stephen |year=2002 |publisher=MIT Press }}</ref>