Andy is a teacher of European and Japanese rope bondage, a medical massage therapist, a former organizational coach, a conscious kinkster and a student of theatre and tea. During his twenty years of BDSM, he has been an owned slave, a leather daddy, a hedonist, a purist, a magician, and a princess slut. His work aims to create magical rooms where people can rest, heal and grow. Andy loves that the world is allowed to be complicated because that makes every meeting unique. In between making a living from teaching, Andy spent most of his recent time writing the book ‘Rituals and Paradoxes: The Intimacy of Belonging in Sadomasochism and Esoteric Eroticism’ while studying the way of tea (chado) and flowers (kado) in the Japanese countryside. In the stillness between moments, life happens. Pause, witness.
co-presented by: Chiseling Clouds (Lun Ário & GubbiAnn)
Berlin-based “Chiseling Clouds” are Lun Ário and GubbiAnn. They play improvised electronic music creating noise and ambient soundscapes using instruments ranging from DIY oscillators, infra-red detectors, contact mikes, circuit bending or salvaged tape recorders, going through live sampling and mangling. Sometimes there are performative elements added. Collective project open to collaborations, chance meetings, failures and propagation.
https://chiselingcloudsberlin.bandcamp.com/
SADOMASOCHISTIC CEREMONIES
Sadomasochism offers many modalities to explore and master, such as swinging a flogger and knotting a rope. And many philosophies to understand, such as the distinction between submission and surrender and the cognitive dissonance of being both cruel and loving. However, philosophies and modalities are fundamentally very doing-focused, as if there is something to achieve. Of course, one can spend a lifetime perfecting increasingly obscure techniques or uncovering increasingly radical theories. Sadomasochism offers plenty of them—why it’s a literal candy shop for us nerds. But there is another way—a way to practice being dominant and submissive by simply being—by learning through experience. These are the sadomasochistic ceremonies.
ceremony /sĕr′ə-mō′′nē/
noun
- A formal act or set of acts performed as prescribed by ritual or custom. “a wedding ceremony; the Japanese tea ceremony.”
- A conventional social gesture or act of courtesy. “the ceremony of shaking hands when introduced.”
- A formal act without intrinsic purpose; an empty form. “ignored the ceremony of asking for comments from other committee members.”
- Strict observance of formalities or etiquette. “The head of state was welcomed with full ceremony.”
Through example and experience, this space will break down the ceremonial elements of generic sadomasochistic play—to understand the details that carry great importance—or, in other words, to decide what details should carry great importance. In a power dynamic, I, as the dominant party, don’t need to control everything—but I would rather have one undeniable detail that clearly communicates our hierarchy, serving as a constant reminder of how things are. It may be as cliché as controlling the gaze of the submissive—eyes open, gaze down—or the way they may talk, or not—the words they use. Or it may be more abstract. Or symbolic. Or humorous. Or degrading—cementing the power dynamic.
Through shape and rhythm, this space will invite you to participate in the idea of communal play—the reasons for bringing sadomasochism out of the bedroom and into a celebratory setting—where your internalized forbidden fantasies are planted as seeds for the desire to be shared with others. By practising directing one’s attention, attraction and rejection can be communicated without a doubt. Triangles represent choice, and lines inevitable meetings. Circles are the centre of attention, and squares are to be locked inside. Eventually, gradually, they’ll also transform into bondage and restriction, pain and suffering, and all the other experiences often associated with sadomasochistic play.
The audiative aspects of the space will be curated by Berlin-based “Chiseling Clouds” (Lun Ário and GubbiAnn). They play improvised electronic music, creating noise and ambient soundscapes using instruments ranging from DIY oscillators, infrared detectors, contact mikes, circuit bending or salvaged tape recorders, going through live sampling and mangling. Sometimes, there are performative elements added. Collective project open to collaborations, chance meetings, failures and propagation.
During these days, Andy Buru will recreate some of his favourite ceremonial play scores, like The Art of Submission, the Art of Rejection, Hunt/fuck/kill, the Washing, communal suffering, the fetishization of Passivity, and maybe some more. If you are expecting a traditional dungeon, prepare to be disappointed. At the most basic level, Andy works with bodies. In the present moment. Inviting them to participate in a new experience that may transcend into the spiritual. His modalities include conscious and consensual sadomasochism, esoteric eroticism, Japanese rope bondage, European theatre studies, medical massage therapy, and neuro-somatic teamwork, each representing an important period of his life. But most importantly, Andy believes in dedication to ‘the way’—the way of being. In Japanese, it is dō. Over the years, He studied sado, the way of tea; kado, the way of flowers; and aikido, the way of directing energy while in motion. It’s the same way walked in the many Eastern mystery schools. But don’t worry dear unknown friend, it’s fundamentally ritual and practical, and you probably won’t notice unless you want to.
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