to curator Laura Trippi, "The installation is designed like a crazy stage set of a children's residential hospital, replete with a torture chamber lurking amidst the institutional cheer." In 1996, Flanagan received the Steve Maidhof Award for National or International Work from the National Leather Association International. Music videos Flanagan is featured in the widely banned music video for the song "Happiness in Slavery" by Nine Inch Nails. In the video, a nude Flanagan is bound to a mechanical torture device which pierces his flesh, pulls on his nipples and penis with pincers, crushes his genitals with a paddle, and ultimately kills him. Apart from his onscreen "death", all of the acts inflicted on Flanagan in the video are unsimulated. In 1993, Flanagan appeared in the video for the Danzig song "It's Coming Down". In the uncensored version of the video (near the ending), Flanagan pierces his upper and lower lips together and then he hammers a nail through the head of his penis before bleeding on the lens of the camera recording him. Flanagan also had a small role in Godflesh's "Crush My Soul" video, as an upside-down suspended Christ, hoisted on to the ceiling of a church by Sheree Rose. Selected works Visiting Hours: An Installation by Bob Flanagan in collaboration with Sheree Rose, Santa Monica Museum of Art and the New Museum, 1994 A Matter of Choice, in collaboration with Sheree Rose, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, July 1992 Bob Flanagan at the Movies, Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, April 18, 1992 Bob Flanagan's Sick, Art in the Anchorage, New York, August 1991 Tell Me What to Do: An Improvisational Reading and Performance, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice, August 14, 1987 Partial bibliography The Kid Is the Man (1978) The Wedding of Everything (1983) Slave Sonnets (1986) Fuck Journal (Hanuman Books, 1988) A Taste of Honey with David Trinidad (1990) Bob Flanagan: Supermasochist (1993) (interviews) Pain Journal (1996) The Book of Medicine (manuscript, never published) References External links Obituary: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries: Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose Collection Excerpts from Flanagan's Pain Journal Why (poem answering the question of Flanagan's lifestyle) Bob Flanagan in the Video Data Bank (in French) Philippe Liotard, "Bob Flanagan: ça fait du bien là où ça fait mal, Quasimodo, n°5, 1999 1952 births 1996 deaths BDSM writers BDSM people American performance artists Deaths from cystic fibrosis American erotica writers