ModCon3 Video Excerpt: Leg Branding and Flesh Removal. (Patreon)

Still trying to figure out the functionality of things here- both with Patreon and with Dropbox (where we store the videos that we can't host on YouTube) to see how everything works together. 

This is a weird one to share; when Shannon Larratt and I came up with the idea for what would become the MODCON events in 1998, the idea was that it was by and for people interested in surgical genital modification and other more extreme procedures, with notable exceptions. "Basic" implants and tongue splittings, which by that point were by no means common but were a sign of the upcoming nodal shift in the extreme modification community (older folks doing self-surgery for sexual or fetishistic reasons being overtaken by younger folks more interested in public facing aesthetic procedures) and, as such, not necessarily who we were courting for attendance, wouldn't get you through the door. 

Documentation of that first event was put in the hands of a young Toronto photographer named Philip Barbosa after Larratt infamously attempted to get Joel-Peter Witkin to shoot it- under the condition that Witkin surrender the negatives and rights to BME, which ended up going about as well as you would imagine. Aside from my personal camera, and before the advent of high quality cameras embedded in the small frame of a smart phone, no outside photography was allowed at the invite only event, though we did catch a practitioner sneaking photos several times. I was against the book/VCDs release; the idea of ModCon as an experiential event was important to me, and the idea of something sellable was important to Shannon. Like a lot of the disagreements we had over the years, he ended up winning. 

Over the course of five events, three books, a VCD, and a CD-ROM documenting the events would be released for sale to the general public, with one volume (MODCON: The Secret World of Extreme Body Modification) even had material included that wasn't taken at the events, featuring people who wouldn't have been invited. 

So sharing a scarification (which wouldn't have gotten you an invite to the first MC event) from a publicly available DVD of footage taken at the 3rd MC event... its an odd fit. 

That said- this collaborative, multi-disciplinary scarification project was one of two procedures led to the creation of the ScarWars events; different artists using different styles of scar-making on a single cohesive piece (line cutting, flesh removal, and branding) planted the seed that grew into three organized cutting/branding events, so... enjoy?