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Vik

Vik is a Spanish rigger.

Era: 2020s

RIGGER · TEACHER

Barcelona-based shibari/kinbaku rigger, teacher and performer, working with partner Gala as Vik & Gala. Began exploring both roles before preferring the rigger side. Together they developed a non-dogmatic, emotionally intense semenawa-oriented approach, perform internationally, were invited to Milan to participate in the Kinbaku Lab research group, created Kinbaku Lab Barcelona with other riggers and bottoms, and run Shizen Studio Barcelona. EURIX 2026 presenter.

School: Independent

Collaborators: Gala.

Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: Shizen Studio Barcelona, Kinbaku Lab Barcelona, EURIX 2020s, Kakumei Kan, Shibari Camp Poland, Danish Shibari Festival, Shibari Mon Amour.

Bakushi Map BETA

An interactive genealogy of bakushi and kinbaku — the Japanese rope traditions that grew from Edo-period hojōjutsu through twentieth-century SM magazines into today's global shibari scene.

People: 343
Entities: 269
Connections: 1546
Eras: 9

Each record is sourced from public material — Nawapedia, ShibariStudy, festival rosters, interviews, archived studio pages — and curated by a single researcher.

Beta — structure and interface are public; data is still being expanded and corrected.

How to read it

Vertical position is time: the 1800s at the top, the 2020s at the bottom. Cards are coloured by school or lineage; lines between them carry the relationship type:

deshi — direct apprenticeship
influence — peer study, mentorship
thinner colours — venue, magazine, production
card colour = school / lineage

Click a card to open its bio, antecedents and descendants. Filters in the top bar narrow by era, entity type, or relationship.

Caveats

Inclusion is selective: a person or studio appears only when there's enough public evidence to anchor them meaningfully. Missing birth years are deliberate — many practitioners don't publicise them. Errors and gaps will exist; corrections welcome at pussynawa@proton.me.

Methodology Sources

Thanks to RopeMarks, Asiana, RomKnots, Nick Freerider, Aleksei Kalatsky, Federico Kirigami, bluefeathers

Bakushi Map by Vsevolod Moreuton · · facts CC0 · text CC BY-SA · pussynawa@proton.me