The details of the workshop are yet to be defined, but it will revolve around Ranboo (Barkas' personal style), dynamic play and partial suspensions.
$500 per couple, max 7 couples
$200 for observers
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The workshop will be taught in English by Barkas and Addie.
--ADDIE--
Addie stumbled into rope several years ago and quickly got hooked. She loves the range and creativity possible with such an adaptable medium. These days she wears many hats – bottom, rigger, self-suspender, educator, performer, advocate, and amateur in the old sense of the word. She has spent the past couple years adventuring, learning, and teaching with her partner Barkas at events around the globe, where her focus has been on supplementing his teachings with bottoming information and education. She has had the immense good fortune of spending time with some fantastic people on her tumble down the rabbit hole, and is happy to have the opportunity to pass on some of what she has learned along the way.
--BARKAS--
Barkas is a bondage educator, performance artist, and writer. He is a licensed Osada Ryu and Yukimura Ryu instructor, and his contributions to the bondage narrative include the development of Ranboo and the Interview Metaphor.
Originally from Vienna and now residing in Vancouver, he is the cofounder and caretaker of TheSpace2. In addition to ongoing teaching locally, he continues to travel, perform, and give workshops internationally; some highlights include Shibaricon (‘14 & ‘15 & ’16) in Chicago, Moscow Knot, Kannawa Kai in Tokyo, West Coast Bound in Vancouver, FIRE in Orlando, Bondage Expo Denver, Place des Cordes in Paris, and EURIX (’14 & ’18).
One of Barkas’ focuses is the implementation of philosophical, sociological, mathematical, and historical ideas to develop a deeper understanding of erotic rope bondage. This pursuit lead to the development of the Interview Metaphor – a mindset that prioritizes individuality, attention, and the interaction of the persons tying. As he often says, don’t tie people, tie with people. In 2016 Barkas collected these and other thoughts, and published them in “Archaeology of Personalities; A Linguistic Approach to Erotic Rope Bondage.”
“When I tie, it’s past directed. It has nothing to do with the future and it has nothing to do with the presence. It is something, that shows me the past – of me as well as of my partner’s past. Tying is an interview for me. I ask questions. The questions I ask, with my rope, with different tensions, different distances, different exposures and so on and so forth, aim for answers in the past. The physicist in you (and in me, too!) now yells at me and says “No way! Even if the answers are built with symbols that have been learned, you get the answers now, ie in the presence!” Well, from the perspective of time as a coordinate, you are right. But I don’t experience a Kinbaku scene as a mathematical physicist. I rather see it as a pervert linguist and historian – one could say as an archeologist of personalities.” - Barkas, 2016
