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John Fare
John Fare (sometimes John Charles Fare or John Fahey or John Faré) is a fictional performance artist who allegedly used robotic surgery to remove parts of his body onstage as part of his act. His final performance was allegedly suicide by beheading. The story originated in 1968 and is generally considered an urban legend.〔Cramer, Florian (2006). (Sodom Blogging: Alternative Porn and Aesthetic Sensibility. ) ''C'Lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader.''〕〔Drake, Temple; Kerekes, David (2004). ''Headpress Guide to the Counter Culture: A Sourcebook for Modern Readers,'' page 28. Headpress, ISBN 9781900486354〕〔Parfrey, Adam (1990). ''Apocalypse Culture'', Volume 1, pages 95-96. Feral House, 1990 ISBN 9780922915057〕
==Sources for story==
The original version was "The Hand" by N.B. Shein, published in ''Insect Trust Gazette'' in 1968.〔Shein, N.B. (1968). The Hand. ''Insect Trust Gazette'', No. 3, pp. 1-4.〕〔Boston, Richard (1970). ''The Press We Deserve,'' p. 127. Routledge & K. Paul, ISBN 9780710068217〕 In November 1972, Tim Craig published a plagiarized and embellished version of Shein's original story in reply to a letter to the editor of ''Studio International''.[Craig, Tim (November 1972). Correspondence. ''Studio International'' (#949), pp. 160–161.〕 The reader was inquiring about an artist named Fahey who ended his career by having his head amputated onstage.〔''Apocalypse Culture'', Adam Parfrey, Feral House, 1991, 2nd ed., pp. 95–96.〕〔(John Fare )〕〔Shirley R. Steinberg, Priya Parmar, Birgit Richard - 2006 Contemporary Youth Culture: An International Encyclopedia: Volume 2 - Page 317〕 ]
In Craig's embellished and plagiarized version of Shein's original, John Charles Fare was born in 1936 in Toronto and attended Forest Hill College. In 1959 he moved to London to study architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, but soon left to live in Copenhagen. He was briefly held in a mental health facility for exposing himself in public at performances. After his release, he was re-arrested for gluing objects to a car. The car's owner, musician and inventor Golni Czervath, did not press charges and befriended Fare. The two developed a robotic operating table with painter Gilbert Andoff. The first performance was a lobotomy on Fare in June 1964. All performances were performed on a Friday. By the time Fare performed at the Isaacs Gallery in Toronto on 17 September 1968, he "was short one thumb, two fingers, eight toes, one eye, both testicles, and several random patches of skin." The amputated parts were preserved in alcohol. That evening, he had his right hand amputated. Fare's body was fitted with small microphones, which transmitted his pulse and breathing frequency in a distorted fashion. Craig said Fare had performed six more shows between 1968 and 1972.
In 1985 Danny Devos wrote to Isaacs Gallery founder Avrom Isaacs enquiring about John Fare and his supposed performance in 1968. The response included a statement in writing that the story of John Fare "has no factual basis," adding "there was no such person as John Fare as far as I know."〔Isaacs, Av (February 15, 1985) (Personal correspondence ). Via Danny Devos (November 16, 1985). (The Myth of John Fare. )〕〔(A Coil Magazine ), on line, accessed 11-III-2007.〕
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