Beyond Pain

Beyond PainThe practice of body suspension piercing ones own flesh with metal hooks and hanging from them and its uniquely sprawling community challenge our cultural understanding of pain. The suspendees experience physical suffering to trigger altered states of consciousness that help them define and create an enhanced version of the self. Through experimental and practice based methodology, Beyond Pain combines thirteen years of intermittent ethnographical

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