Briki
Rope bottom and rope switch with a background in contemporary dance and yoga, who is billed alongside the rigger Tamandua at workshops and live performances in Zurich and London.
Briki works as a rope switch and bottom and collaborates with rigger Tamandua. The Zurich venue sihl13, run by the label luhmen d’arc, presents the two on a shared artist page, and the Barcelona studio Espacio Nos lists Briki as a shibari model and contemporary dancer.
Background
On the luhmen d’arc artist page, Briki describes a knowledge of the body that comes from yoga and from work as a contemporary dancer. The same text says that for some years Briki has worked in the border zone where performance art meets the rope community. Briki describes an interest in communication and power dynamics in rope performance. Briki also names bottomhood as an interest, meaning the practical knowledge that builds up in the person being tied and the care of the body over a lifetime.
The Anatomie Studio listing also describes Briki’s background in contemporary dance and yoga.
Workshops and performance with Tamandua
The luhmen d’arc page keeps a past-events list for the pair at sihl13 in Zurich. It includes a Tormenting Kinbaku masterclass in July 2021, a Body in Ropes masterclass on suspension and play in February 2022, and shibari live drawing performances in July 2021 and February 2022, in which the two presented their joint rope work to people drawing. For 2023 the venue announced a series of four progressive workshops taught by Tamandua and Briki, one weekend every three months, opening with the principles of suspension work.
Anatomie Studio in London listed a class called Sensual Tying with the pair for 9 June 2023. Its description centers on floor work, and it asks participants to bring a tying partner they already know. Espacio Nos records that Briki collaborated with Tamandua on a workshop in 2022.