Amanita

Amanita is a Portuguese rope artist.

Era: 2020s

ROPE ARTIST · PERFORMER

Portugal-born, nomadic rope artist and performer working publicly as Amanita / @amanitaropes. She started rope in 2019 and has been based in Barcelona since 2023. Her site frames the work as Rope Art and Ritual: contemporary shibari, ritualism, movement in restriction, contact improvisation, butoh, self-tying and self-suspension. Public performance and event traces place her work in Barcelona, Madrid, Berlin, Milan, Salzburg and Portugal contexts including Waking Life, The Fool, Spazio Arteria, Sala de Luz, R.A.R.E Collective and Dr.Flow. Source-backed collaborations and learning contexts include Alberto Noshibari / NoShibari, Stuart / @a.veces.cuerdas.3, Vik / @victor.shizen, Hajime Kinoko, VÆGABØUND, Tatiana Limati, Laodai, Riccardo Wildties, Lola Sapieha and Rüdger Schestag. Public Instagram identifies @amanitaropes as a rope ritual + performance artist, rope switch, self-suspension and movement practitioner. No certification, rank, deshi or formal-school claim is asserted.

Influences (mutual or directional): Alberto Noshibari.

Collaborators: Hajime Kinoko, Martin Oskar Kramer, Carnivore, Alberto Noshibari, VÆGABØUND, Vik, Riccardo Wildties, Stuart, Tati Limati.

Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: Sala de Luz, Dr.Flow, Spazio Arteria, Shibari Camp Poland, Atelier Misiu, MadridRopes.