The Kinbaku Salon x NYC Edition

with Discover Kinbaku

The Kinbaku Salon is an invitation. It is for everyone who wants to know more about the origins and history of Japanese Bondage, Kinbaku, or Shibari, who like underground arts and culture – and who wants to socialize in an inspiring environment.  It is an interactive space where we use multimedia, speech, pictures, and video. It opens the possibility for education, exchange, and entertainment.

Lecture and Q/A

Rope Bondage in East & West: Phantasies, Visualisations, Projections, Ambiguities

In this keynote, Alexander MA will speak about how we “in the West” receive and absorb (German: rezipieren) the knowledge about Kinbaku as culture in Japan. He critically asks how much our own (individual) culture informs what we perceive as the true nature of Kinbaku and how much we project. Doing so we travel (in speed) through 250 years of erotisizing torture (an ambiguity in itself!) in Europe and Japan.

Tickets are $45 per person, going on sale on 4/5 at 11am

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CANCELLATION POLICY: you can reschedule once or ask for a refund up to 48 hours before the event. If you would like a refund, please email us at temple.nyc.bushwick@gmail.com , and we will take care of it with you. A processing fee of 5% will be subtracted from all refunds. No refunds will be issued with less than 48 hours notice of cancellation.

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