Ontario SusCon 2025!
Hey hook fam, it’s been a very long time, and I’m sorry for that. Today I just want to share that up here in Canada, the wonderful Ontario Suspension Collective, of which I’m a member, is hosting our first ever Suspension Convention this March. It is set to be an amazing event, modelled after the Dallas SusCons of yore, with education as the driving force, and with the intention of (re)building community, and reminding the world that Ontario has historically been a powerhouse of suspension activity.
I will be giving a presentation around the history of body suspension around the Ohio/Great Lakes/KY area, basically the old stomping grounds of this blog and the ihung team over it’s life, focusing on 2000-2010. It will be a lot of “listen to the old man talk about the old days” but I’m hoping the information and timelines and advancements/milestones will help connect some of the dots between Fakir Musafar doing private stuff to body suspension being somewhat mainstream.
Anyhow, I hope to see familiar faces at the event!
Obsolete Body: Suspensions Sequel by Stelarc and PS Media
Look, a new post! Despite being quiet for quite an obscene length of time, we are indeed still around and still doing stuff sporadically. But that’s a post for a different time.
I’m writing today to implore all of you to go and support a new CrowdFunding campaign to get a sequel to Stelarc’s fantastic Obsolute Body: Suspensions book printed. For those of you who don’t know, Obsolute Body: Suspensions has been out of print for ages, and was a rather niche run to begin with, meaning that getting your hands on a copy nowadays will run you over $500 for a paperback, and over a grand for the hardbound! Which leads me to this book. It’s a sequel of sorts, since the first book didn’t contain enough of Stelarc’s suspension experiments to sate the current generations appetite for knowledge on body suspensions. This book promises to include more information on Stelarc’s early work, and then build on that with his body suspension experiments since then, such as Ear and Arm, and also his projects with the Wings of Desire folks in Oslo and Dallas.
Speaking of the WoD folks, they are also the masterminds behind PS Media who have worked tirelessly to both engage Stelarc in the modern suspension community as well as to get this book off the ground. If you’ve ever worked with, or seen any of the work that WoD and Pain Solution do, you already know that they set a very high bar in all of their endeavours. This latest book appears to be no different.
So please, if you are into performance art, art history, body modification, body suspension, supporting independent artists, etc, then head over to IndieGoGo and contribute. I’ve not seen the book yet, but I can attest that every other book from PSMedia is gold, and this will certainly raise the standard.
Sunday Funday with Only Flesh
Anyone who follows ihung knows about our relationship with the band/performance art group/suspension team that is Only Flesh. On 4 May, Only Flesh will be hosting a day of private suspensions in the Pittsburgh, PA area. If this interests you, head on over to the Facebook Event page and sign up.
From that page’s description:
An all day event of flesh suspensions and flesh pulls! be it your first time or a seasoned pro, come one come all!
In case you need more convincing, check out a few videos of Only Flesh’s private work below.
