On this episode of Beneath the Skin we talk about the weird 2000s trend of tattoo advertising. 

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On this episode of Beneath the Skin we start our new series on the the different artists and movements that have influenced modern tattooing. 

Tattooing as a medium owes a lot to other forms. From painting to sculpture, from art high low and in between, its all influenced tattooing in some form

We'll be covering artists like Ralph Bakshi and HR. Giger, and movements like expressionism, post modernism and others. On this first episode we're covering the history of the Pin Up

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On this episode of Beneath the Skin we give a brief intro into the history of tattooing in China 

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On this episode of Beneath the Skin we talk to Body Art archivist, documentarian, and contextualizer, Shawn Porter. Many of you will know Shawn from his archive projects Occult Vibrations and Sacred Debris where Shawn collects and preserves artefacts from body modifications, tattooing and more. You may also know Shawn from his time as one of the founders of Body Modification E-Zine (or BME for short). 

We cover a lot in this episode, like Shawn's friendship with Jack Yount, the early body mod scene, and Shawn's work preserving the history of all things weird and wonderful.  

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On this episode of Beneath the Skin we talk about the life of early queer icon Joe Castairs

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On this episode of Beneath the Skin we spoke to Egyptologist Dr. Anne Austin about her work discovering tattooed bodies in the Egypt and debunking what we previously thought about tattooing in the region. 

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On this episode of Beneath the Skin we speak to Damon Murray and Mark Vincent about the Russian Criminal Tattoo encyclopaedias and their new book The Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive 

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This is a recording of Adam's presentation from the recent Inked Up Marked Out Conference on the interdisciplinary study of tattooing.

Adam is a tattooist currently working in Manchester at Flesh Tattoo, and independent researcher. He completed his practice-based PhD in design in 2021 at The University of Sunderland in partnership with Triplesix Studios, where he began his tattoo apprenticeship in May 2017. This was the world's first to utilise tattoo practice as a research methodology and was described by external examiners (including Matt!) as "the most in-depth, detailed and considered first-person account of tattoo practice in the academic literature".

In this talk Adam draws upon six autoethnographic written accounts of encounters he had as a tattooist between 2018 and 2020, themed around his understanding of the tattooists occupational role. In addition to arguing the role of the practitioner being the provision of tattooing as a creative medium, he argues that the non-material facet of the tattooists role is the provision of service, and offer a framework for how that may be understood and the discipline specific nuances that are entailed. Through this, he sought to demonstrate that there is more to tattooing than just 'tattooing', so that future academic inquiry can be framed and conducted in a more empathetic and meaningful way.

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