“il n'y a pas de hors-texte” - there is no outside of text. Barkas’ approach to Kinbaku or bondage is one that is rooted outside of rope, outside of kink, and even outside of sexuality. It looks for its ideas in architecture, museums, amusement parks, orchestra rehearsals, and public transportation. In this workshop series exclusive...
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Georg Barkas
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Shame, for many, is a constant shadow, a companion that seems to hold the power for great pain as well as for great pleasure. Shame is also used in a vast discourse of understanding cultural differences and even to describe entire societies. And shame is often treated like yet another mere tool for kink...
One cannot not communicate. The smallest hand movements, facial expressions, body positions, and whatnot are adding to a patchwork of communication that is constantly at work between the tied and the tying person. A lot of that is happening subconsciously and we will never be able to mean literally everything we do. But we...
To suspend the other with ropes can offer a huge variety of different experiences at once. It can bring the person in ropes into a completely different state at best and be a stressful and harmful experience at worst. The attraction of suspension rope work presents itself in many ways and it is obvious...
This exploration takes the participation on a journey behind the scenes of “the scene”. We will ask ourselves what it could mean that something seemingly so private could possibly be thought of as political. And in asking that, we will find out that if we study certain practices from a historical perspective, we automatically show...
Join us on a journey into a totally other space and experience a live performance by Barkas & Addie. An experimentation with space, time, and intimacy how Barkas and Addie understand it. Event Details Date & Time: September 1st, 2023, 8pm CET (Berlin time) Format: performance Audience: LGBTQIA+ & FRIENDS Language: English Price: 25 Euros...
In this masterclass, Barkas and Addie will be taking the participants on a journey that goes beyond mere tying. In various sections, we will be looking at the fine details of some advanced techniques, at performances, rope pedagogy, as well as community building, and navigating a fast-paced rope world. This workshop is directed at those...
In this masterclass, Barkas and Addie will be taking the participants on a journey that goes beyond mere tying. In various sections, we will be looking at the fine details of some advanced techniques, at performances, rope pedagogy, as well as community building, and navigating a fast-paced rope world. This workshop is directed at those...
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...
Shame, for many, is a constant shadow, a companion that seems to hold the power for great pain as well as for great pleasure. Shame is also used in a vast discourse of understanding cultural differences and even to describe entire societies. And shame is often treated like yet another mere tool for kink...
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...
The pursuit of ‘connective’ or ‘communicative’ rope is central to the experiences many of us seek in rope bondage. Despite this, connection and communication as concepts are slippery to define, tricky to exemplify, and often tautological in explanation. Connection is not created by a set of actions, by a particular pose, by close proximity,...