Lison Vincent
Lyon visual artist and performer trained at the Beaux-Arts de Sète and ENSAD Nancy who runs shibari initiations, classes and themed workshops (self-tying, self-suspension, rope and movement) in Lyon and on trips to other French cities.
Lison Vincent is a visual artist and performer in Lyon who teaches and performs shibari alongside work in photography, video, graphic design and illustration. The site gives studies at the Beaux-Arts in Sète and at ENSAD Nancy, and presents rope as one strand of a multidisciplinary practice: Vincent ties, and photographs the people being tied when they wish.
Teaching
Vincent runs beginner initiations, regular or one-off classes for individuals and pairs, and small-group sessions for beginners and people who already tie. In Lyon the workshops take place from time to time, often together with local associations or venues for performance and visual art. Vincent also teaches while traveling, naming Paris, Montpellier, Strasbourg, Lille and Quebec, and invites associations and collectives to book a session in their city. The initiations cover first knots, tension, communication, consent and setting a frame for a session.
The themed workshops, described as laboratories for research and practice, have covered self-tying, self-suspension, the aesthetics of letting go, rope and movement, and play and improvisation. The site presents self-tying and self-suspension as a way to explore one’s relationship with oneself through rope.
Approach and performance
The site calls shibari a language of rope, bodies, looks and silences, and an art of slowness, connection and presence. Vincent describes the approach as relational, grounded in listening, communication and mutual respect, and says the rope work can be gentle or intense, simple or highly graphic, meditative or performative, with room for humor and tenderness next to technical rigor.
Vincent performs shibari publicly in art and event settings, often with music, and collaborates with photographers, dancers, musicians, painters and video makers. The site cites Vincent’s rope work in a music video for the song “Pyromane” by the French band Bandit Bandit.