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Georg Barkas
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In kink and intimacy education, we are often confronted with the same disadvantages that any unquestioned pedagogy comes with. A lack of critical thinking is not the fault of the participants but rather the product of normative structures and mechanisms that are similar in many different educational contexts. This two-part workshop focuses on one particular...
Ranboo, literally translated means stormy, overwhelming, wild. About 10 years ago, Barkas developed Ranboo as a way of rejecting a static and often seemingly boring practice of rope bondage. A wild dance while tying with each other is the result. Ranboo is characterized by a large amplitude of variation of distance, speed, and intensity, paired...
The discourses that accompany intimacy, kink, and sexuality are taking several concepts for granted and mark them as needs, as these inescapable, biologized authorities that we are bound to obey. Security/safety is one of those concepts that we are not allowed to question. Everyone needs safety in a kink space and everyone strives for security...
Rope Bondage exists in space and time. We need to necessarily tie somewhere but this somewhere is not obvious. Every point in space implies a time, a situation, as well as an orientation, which, in turn implies a direction. In this workshop series we will look at the different spatial and temporal aspects of tying....
In this 3 part online series, Barkas will present important aspects of ropes that go beyond mere rope techniques or a specific style. We will discuss the differences between important styles and schools of rope and their compatibilities and incompatibilities. We will also learn about learning, teaching, and sharing rope skills. The goal of...
Poetics of rope bondage takes the participants on a journey through the contexts of tying and how we can use them to improve our tying as well as our understanding of tying. In a narrative, specifically created by Barkas for a new pedagogy of rope, concepts like aesthetics, patterns, suspensions, and floorwork are deconstructed through...
Barkas and Addie usually teach with the goal of separating the practice of rope from inherent expectations or assumptions of sexual contact. But that does not mean that they do not practice and enjoy sexual rope as well! This 3-part-workshop-series will focus on rope techniques for sex and ideas on how to sexualize ropes....
Arms-behind-the-back positions are common in bondage but many people find them difficult to get into or uncomfortable to maintain for a number of reasons: tight shoulders, rotator cuff issues, muscle or fat density, hypermobility, spine or shoulder alignment, blood flow, etc. This class explores two shoulder-friendly techniques for bringing the arms behind the back, working...
Urawaza (裏技) are the techniques in the back, the ones that an outside observer barely notices, those secret tricks. Urawaza applied to Kinbaku in the proper way can have an immense effect on the person in ropes. They are at the intersection between tying skills and communication techniques. They are the reason why it...
The Takate Kote, short just TK, and its variations is one of the most tied structured patterns in the rope world. No matter if hands in the front or in the back, if you tie a stemless TK or one with a stem, whether you have Kannukis or not, the TK is for sure...
While a lot of thought and energy and practice and so on and so forth can be put into tying, we are also all facing challenges in our everyday lives that are less and less bearable. Ropes can also be used to forget about all that shit out there, all the fascism, the economy, the...
Next year will mark 10 years since Archaeology of Personalities was published. It introduced the concept of "the interview" as a metaphor in rope bondage to a wider audience and is still the only book that discusses rope bondage through the lens of western philosophical tradition. How do we think about rope today, compared to...