Gluwur
Chilean artist and performer in Barcelona (also written Glü Wür) who joined the city's shibari community in 2013, combines contemporary circus with self-suspension and has performed and taught across Europe and the Americas.
Gluwur, who signs as Glü Wür, is a Chilean artist and performer based in Barcelona whose work joins contemporary circus with Japanese rope bondage, especially self-tying and self-suspension. Rope Jam Barcelona lists Glü Wür among the city’s rope teachers.
Background
The art biography on Glü Wür’s site records theatre training in Santiago de Chile from 1995 to 2002, oil painting and drawing from 1999 to 2002, and visual art and jewelry design at the Universidad de Chile from 2003 to 2008, followed by studies in gemmology and high jewelry in Barcelona. The rope page dates the start of aerial circus work to 2009 in Santiago, with trapeze and aerial hoop, and the move into Barcelona’s shibari community to 2013.
Rope training
The same page lists the rope workshops Glü Wür attended: with Nawashi Monko (2013, 2015), Naka Akira in Madrid (2014), a Bondage Erotique workshop at the Armory in San Francisco (2014), Pedro Cuerdas, Osaka Dan and No Shibari (2015), Chelsa Doll for self-suspension (2016), Eurix in Berlin (2016–2017), Nicolas Yoroi in Madrid, Isabelle Hanikamu in Gijón and Barkas in Berlin (all 2017), and a private lesson with Fred RX in Barcelona (2018).
Performance
Glü Wür’s stage pieces mix rope with circus. “Femme Dummy” (2014) played in Santiago, at the Folsom Street Fair and the Armory in San Francisco and at Bound in London; “Big Bag” (2015), a self-suspension in fabric, toured Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, France, the United States, the United Kingdom and Spain, including Eurix and Anatomie Studio. “Siamese Twins” (2016), a double self-suspension with Maya Homerton, was shown at Shibari Athens, Place des Cordes in Paris and Fausto in Barcelona; later works include “Living Flowers” (2017–2021), “Neo Geisha” (2018), which added hot wax and toured to Basel and Strasbourg, a 35-minute piece with Rouse Renoir, described as shibari with many musical instruments, shown at Onawa Asobi in Antwerp and the Luststreifen film festival in Basel (2020–2022), and “La Madeja”, a shibari and dance piece with Patricia Carmona (2015–2024). The site also lists appearances in music videos and documentaries. Glü Wür describes the work as exploring the limits of body and mind, identity, physical diversity and imposed beauty standards.
Teaching
Glü Wür has taught self-tying and shibari in Barcelona at Sex Academy, Fausto, Sala de Luz and La Central de Circ, among others, and in Madrid, Seville, Toulouse, Brussels (Yoroi Dojo), Athens, London (Anatomie Studio), Paris, Bern and Strasbourg, as well as online and, in 2018, classes on shibari for diverse bodies. At Sala de Luz Glü Wür co-teaches course blocks with Aisha Cruz, beginning with shibari structures, and Sex Academy Barcelona has run a four-class beginner course led by Glü Wür. Festival teaching includes Bora Andalucía and the Shibari Freak Camp in Campobasso (2018), Rome Bondage Week (2019), Onawa Asobi in Antwerp (2020), Eurix (2016, 2025) and Rope Link in Rotterdam (2026).