As you’ll see there’s an interview with me and also with Nina Russ about BOUND in this issue: Founded six years ago, Sang Bleu proposes multidisciplinary investigation of the body. With an eponymous magazine at center, the project encompasses a range of artistic activity spurred by the interests of its members. Fashion, fetish culture, visual …
BROADCAST SCHEDULE Webcam sessions: Nina Russ & MaYa Homerton Tues, 3 Dec 2013, 18:00 GMT (13:00 EST, 10:00 PST) Weds, 4 Dec 2013, 19:00 GMT (14:00 EST, 11:00 PST) Tune in here!
The mutual back-slapping “if you haven’t got anything nice to say, don’t say anything” forum culture creates a very warm and lovely rose-tinted world. However, I feel it has a very negative side. It inflates egos, allows myths to be perpetuated, creates false prophets, risks unsafe examples being emulated without caveats and encourages complacency. For …
It is good to have one’s thoughts confirmed by others. As the regulars will know, I have drawn constant parallels between dance and shibari. Here is something from ShigonawaBingo, translated by Rida. [private] ダンスDance 感情や意思)の伝達、表現、交流などを目的とした、一定の時間と空間内に展開されるリズミカルな身体)動作。 Rhythmical Body movements performed in a given space and in a give time frame, as a way to exchange, share …
Here’s an interesting post from Rope Springs Eternal which might cause some controversy Rope bondage in the Japanese style is popularly thought of by its practitioners in Japan and elsewhere as an art form, but as such it is practically unknown by the artworld, meaning bondage has never been defined or validated by some agency …
Ever wondered how to do kinbaku with no rope? IMHO, this is as close as you can get and if you can exude this energy with a piece of rope, you are as close as you can get to real kinbaku! Now try to imagine this performance with the dancers stumbling mechanically through their steps …
Now I have finally overcome the blown Firewire issue with my DV cams, I have been able to capture some video from Boundcon. The first is an ad hoc session I did with the beautiful Aliya from eastern Russia on the British Bondage stage, shot by Boris Mosafir. You will have to forgive the odd …
Don’t forget The Knot is on this Sunday, my mentored shibari peer workshop (click here for more info and to book). This event is unlike the usual rope peer workshop we find in the UK, which can have over 100 people. Although this can be great from a social point of view, it can be …
Hot off the press! My ‘Man in Japan’, NuitDeTokyo, has just written to me from Kanna’s studio to say that he “looks very much to be at your festival.“. So, pending dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s, it seems we will have Kanna and, assuming his diary is OK for the first weekend in …
I know everyone is dying for news of the 2012 festival. We have been hanging on to see if Kinoko is available this year but plans to open a new club mean he is unable to commit. However, the latest from him during his classes in Rome is that he will do all he can …