Georg Barkas
Vancouver-based intimacy educator, researcher, performer and author of a book on language and erotic rope bondage, who studied with Osada Steve and teaches online and in person through Karada House.
Georg Barkas, who also appears simply as Barkas, is a rope bondage educator, performer and writer based in Vancouver, Canada. Karada House describes Barkas as an educator and researcher whose work examines norms around kink, intimacy and sexuality and draws on academic study. The profile uses the pronouns they/them.
Teaching and ideas
The Queerope 2022 biography describes Barkas as an educator, performer and writer interested in nonverbal forms of language. The same biography credits Barkas with Ranboo and the teaching concept “The City of Kinbaku” and says Barkas helped organize “Queer Practices/Queer Embodiment”. In a 2020 Karada House interview, Barkas described almost a decade studying with Osada Steve and discussed getting to know another person through rope. The same interview mentions an upcoming event titled “Barkas’ Kinbaku City in Berlin”.
Publications
The Karada House profile names Barkas as the author of the book Archaeology of Personalities: a linguistic approach to erotic rope bondage and of several articles for international magazines. The Queerope bio refers to an interview metaphor from that book.
Recent and current classes
- Hybrid class, July and August 2025. Karada House listed “It’s Not the TK’s Fault if it’s Boring or Unsafe” on 27 July and 3 August 2025, online by Zoom with an in-person part at Studio Allegory in Vancouver.
- Online series, 2026 to 2027. The Karada House profile lists virtual evening sessions from 10 November 2026 to 9 February 2027, including “Kink is Political”, “Communicating with Ropes” and “Rope for Sex”. Karada House lists Addie Tahl, Georg Barkas and Andrea Rimon as facilitators for the “Kink is Political” sessions.
Espacio Nos
The Barcelona studio Espacio Nos lists Georg Barkas among its past and occasional collaborators, as an artist, shibari instructor and writer who gave special workshops in 2021 and 2023.