Parma Ham is a London based artist challenging normative notions of gender and the body. Let us know your thoughts, opinions and questions in the comments section on Facebook. The exhibition will feature new work by artists mostly known through Instagram, and explores how the body is desecrated, destroyed and transformed, through our fantasies, yes alien aesthetics will be featured heavily! CAPTION: Parma Ham in Oil Spill dress by Nullo, their new fashion design venture. There’s a link in my bio for tickets to the night
(First published in Archer Magazine 12/10/19) Alison Bennett is a neuroqueer artist, activist, and academic. He's risen to infamy in the media because of his heavily tattooed body—which is almost entirely shaded in with black ink. (Photo by Damien Frost, 2019) MERCHANDISE FOR SALE: See 6 items listed below. For London based artist, Parma Ham, pushing boundaries has become their raison d’être. Carol Bonarde, who is an incredible band photographer, is our resident photographer and we are busy creating zines to document the work and the people of our group. message Fred … Read extracts from my articles featured in FOREVER MORE: The New Tattoo, including interviews with Kelly Violet, Miriam Frank, Indomito, the Brutal Black Project and Expanded Eye. In addition to shading in his skin black, he also has sclera tattoos and regularly bleaches his facial hair, eyebrows and eyelashes. I think in these parameters you can make the best and purest art, unadulterated by money and power.
He posted a series of photos with his crotch bandaged up and included a video emptying his own catheter bag on Instagram. To a lot of people my very existence is a provocation, but that problem is with that audience, and not me. I’m happy to go by them/they to make things easy for others, but just referring to me as Parma Ham is preferable. This is the Brutal Black Project, and they’ll “ruin your life”. We make and produce work for ourselves and for our immediate subculture / community. She’ll be covered in filth, her mouth full of tampons and blood, she’s covered in shit and her heads all wrapped up; she’s crying, and she’s distraught, and everything’s so disgusting—everything’s just out. It’s only fitting that sex and sexuality is also updated to accommodate our desires in newfound realities. Or has it already been done, but better?”, if the answer is yes, I disregard and move on. The Forensic Analysis of Tattoos and Ink is a pioneering work detailing the methodology of this process. @instagram nobody likes your platform … However, body mods often take their individuality to an entirely different level—investing in extreme surgeries that make them "beyond human." (First published in Forever More: The New Tattoo) Upon starting, they work independently, a technique reminiscent of surrealist André Breton’s ‘exquisite corpse’, where artists collaborate while completely in the dark of their partner’s progress.
They were also all very much geared towards men, with half naked women legs apart with barely any tattoos on the cover.". You can feel sick, faint, or you can feel happy and blissful. The groundwork and desire to do this has always been around. Republished in INKED, issue 45) Ahead of VICELAND’s 2017 series, Needles and Pins, Grace talks about her experiences in front of the lens, riding around LA on quad bikes with Venice Bad Boys, and what it’s like to be an ambassador for contemporary tattoo culture.
I identify as agender, meaning lacking gender. Archaniol was quick to notify his growing online fanbase of the surgery and let his fans know that it was a success.
I work based on what I would like to see and what I need. I think due to social media and the accessibility and ease of photoshop style apps a new form of (digital) body modification has gained huge popularity. This is an interview with the book's author, Dr Michelle Miranda. Not rituals in a spiritual or religious sense, but as a way to story tell, express identity and experiences, and reaffirm our subculture by bringing people together. Upcoming Wraith Event. It was two shops but it was the same. In their design project, Nullo (a term describing an individual that voluntarily removes their genitals), Ham and Salvia manufacture a haunting alien aesthetic that encourages nebulous boundaries between physical and digital realities to create and accommodate an updated augmented sexuality. He'd traveled to the Jardines Hospital in Guadalajara, Mexico to have the procedure done—thousands of miles away from his home. 75.2k Followers, 993 Following, 390 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Parma Ham (@parma.ham) Needless to say none of them appealed to me, they were very much aimed at men and none of them featured tattoos that I like or would suit me and my tastes. parma.ham [ANNOUNCEMENT] I’m super excited to show everyone Nullo ( @nulloes ) which I have been working on with @salvjiia . We are putting on a runway style presentation to show a collection of strapons which is called SISSYSLUT. They truly created their own universe, and there’s many sides of both their work and their life that inspires and pushes boundaries. Despite being asexual, he still has a normal sex drive and is in a relationship with a transgender woman named Veronica Carol Blades.
Although tattoos in the West are becoming increasingly mainstream, the pain accompanying a session usually remains something to be tolerated at best, or completely mollified through the consumption of analgesics at worst.
I spend a day in Malawi’s biggest refugee camp, Dzaleka, where by chance I meet the camp’s tattooist. Artwork by Hila Angelica. The skins of counter-culture groups like the black resistance, gay liberationists, and women’s rights advocates were adorned with tattoos embodying their identities of dissent. (Published in Skin Deep UK) Love Shakthi Om, to be launched in the first week of May, will produce limited works of art to be sold with profits donated to charity. Alongside their own band Cult of the New Flesh, resident performers Salvia and WenZhelini offer revellers an evening of bloodletting, sadism, ritual, sex acts, and lurid hedonism.
(Published in INKED issue 42) “That was Ricky’s right above Pinky’s. I’m not sure if it’s the healthiest way of going about things, and for many years I held myself back, because I thought there was no way I could create work as good as some of the great thinkers of our times. Imbued is a critique of binaries and exploration of sexuality that transgress the limits of the body to build new ways of experiencing it. They just liked names that had that “icky” sound and I just happened to be there at the right time.”. (Published in VICE 12/06/2019) With the brutal chaos of blackwork tattooist, 3Kreuze, and meticulous manipulation of pioneering body modifier, Yann Brenyak, Feris Tergo sessions are designed to explore the murky and macabre space between what unites tattoo, body modification, and BDSM. This underpins my event Wraith, which is a platform for myself, my friends and the alt scene in London. (Published in DAZED & CONFUSED, 13/12/17) MoMA's recent exhibition, Items: Is Fashion Modern? (Published in VICE 14/11/2018) With a history purportedly stretching back into the late 1800s, The Number is one of the world's oldest gangs, maintained with an intricately complex hierarchy that spans across three factions—the 26s, 27s, and 28s. Nullo is a subculture within the extreme body modification community where men with phalluses surgically remove their genitals. The movement is dependent on new technology and the way it’s distributed, so that’s why it’s suddenly appeared at once in a cohesive manner. "We strongly believe this life is about karma, sharing love, traditions, and cultures. I never understood why writers, artists or musicians put work out that ultimately wasn’t anything new or doesn’t challenge or compete against what else is already out there.