When Bogotá Shibari Week first reached out, they asked me what the festival theme could be. If it were inspired by my work. I made a suggestion. They came back with Conversaciones Silenciosas. Silent Conversations.
It was better than what I had proposed. It named something I’d been circling for a long time.
What do bodies say when words lose their meaning? What conversations happen between tension and release, between tying and being tied? I’ve been asking this for years. In rope, in photography, in film. And now a whole week in Bogotá runs under that exact question.
That made me thoughtful, and got me looking at my own work with different eyes. What am I actually doing here? What do I want to say? What conversations am I trying to have?
And then the other direction: what happens when I bring these questions to Bogotá? To Colombia. To a community I’m still getting to know and curious about. It goes both ways — what I bring, and what I take back. What I learn. Where this practice leads me next.
Where I’ll Be
Varieté: Between Pink & Blue · May 18
A performance collaboration with Azul Ropes on opening night. The title says something about where bodies are allowed to exist — between the colors we’re assigned, in the space that’s supposedly empty.
Opening Conversatorio · May 18
¿Cuerpos que conversan sin palabras? — A panel discussion to open the week.
Workshop: Kimé · May 19
Emotional impact in rope sessions. Moments of peak intensity in a session: not necessarily the most extreme physical moment, but the one where something shifts. How do we recognize it? How do we hold it? How do we come back from it?
Workshop: Body, Movement & Rope Connection · May 20
Rope as a sensory and relational system. What does it mean to let the rope moves with a body rather than simply constrain it?
Workshop: Edge & Play · May 20
Erotic exploration through rope — for couples.
Workshop: Solo-Flow · May 21
Atad@ a mí mism@. Tied to oneself. For participants who come alone — a space for practicing rope as a relationship with your own body, without a partner as intermediary.
Shibari for Photography · May 21
Both sides of the rope. Both sides of the lens.
Rope Triptych — Collaborative Art · May 22
Three perspectives, one visual structure. A collaborative art session that takes rope out of the session context and into something explicitly compositional. Artistically inspired by the cover art work of ’Ritual de lo Habitual‘ from Jane’s Addiction.