Mark De Viate

Mark De Viate is an Australian rigger.

Era: 2000s

RIGGER · TEACHER · ORGANIZER

Sydney-based shibari educator, performer and community organizer, publicly active through DV8House from 2001 and Studio Kink Sydney from its 2015 formation. Studio Kink presents Mark as a co-founder and instructor, a shibari educator / performer, a 2005 Austin Ropecraft Symposium presenter and later ShibariCon educator whose rope work was refined through Osada Steve mentorship in Japan and grounded in Akechi Denki tradition context. The ShibaRicon 2015 programme gives the stronger 2006 Osada influence wording, places his rope style in Akechi Denki lineage context, notes time tying with Hajime Kinoko, Akechi Kanna and Yukimura Haruki, and records an invited 2011 Toubaku performance trace. Studio Kink's online program includes Mark's Introduction to Shibari, Fundamentals and DV8 Hishi TK courses.

Influences (mutual or directional): Osada Steve, Nawarei.

Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: Studio Kink Sydney, ShibariCon, Austin Ropecraft Symposium, Toubaku, ROPECRAFT.