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Monks – The Transatlantic Feedback, documentary film by Dietmar Post and Lucia Palacios, 2006




A barber – surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head, Jacob Cats, Wellcome Library, Londra, 1787


Monks (Roger Johnstone, Gary Burger, Larry Clark, Eddie Shaw, Dave Day)

“Even the Christian monks’ tonsure is said to be a relic from the time when they were trepanned.” Exhibition leaflet, Amanda Feilding, Heartbeat in the Brain, Film and Forum, Suydam Gallery, New York City, 1978


Man Ray, Tonsure (Marcel Duchamp), 1984


Julie Felix, Brain Blood Volume,
Changes, Fontana records, 1966

It was lost and now it's found again
Don't drive it underground again
Brain blood volume
They call it love and heaven above
Some take it for the hell of it
That's sugarlack
Brain blood volume
It's you, it's me, it's good. Understood?
Brain blood volume.
It's what the poets have written for
Painters have painted for
Priests have prayed for
Prisons have filled for
Soldiers have killed for
Brain blood volume
It's what the holes have been through for
Oceans are still for
Holes will be drilled for
Brain blood volume
It's what the pipes have been smoked for
Witches have been cloaked for
Headstands have been done for
The whole thing was begun for
It's what the world was made for
The price must be paid for
Brain blood volume

Experimental haircut by Bohdan Vasylkov (@bohdan.vasylkov)  


Detail of a priest with a tonsure, The Extraction of the Stone of Madness / The Cure of folly, Hieronymus Bosch, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1501-1505