Unruly Rope

Unruly Rope
Name	Unruly Rope
Location	H&D Studio
Date	2026/07/14
Time	14:30—16:30
PeopleOrganisations	Ayse
Type	HDSC2026
Web	Yes
Print	No

Unruly Rope is a rope space devoted to experimenting with touch, dynamics, and the tensions that become apparent when connecting to another person or to yourself with rope, along with the charged expectations or assumptions that can arise within rope bondage. This is an experiment exploring energies and affects, finding out where the body needs and gives energy, and whether this can be used to understand the technologies that surround us those without bodies but with constant energy requirements. Throughout Unruly Rope, we will explore questions like: How do we sense one another? Through direct contact, an ether, action of forces, exchange of words, fluids, particles? What inspires you, as you tie, in the decisions you make? How many kinds of touch exist? What does the exchange of energy entail when touching each other as well as with ropes? How is a change in motion effected? What kind of pressure creates tension, desire, escalation, or de-escalation? What is temperature, and how should we move with the temperature of the body? What do you watch for in the body of another? Do you watch your own body? And what happens when you think of rope bondage, sexuality, or sensuality in this way?

I will provide some ropes; if you have ropes, bring them along.

Max: 9 participants.

Sign up necessary the previous week!

Timeline:

An introduction to the methods i am using, practicing with different kinds of touch, showing some techniques with rope, practicing with rope in groups, after the practice talking about the dynamics that are noticed after rope, and touch. shoawing some other techiques, that are sensual, dominating, receiving, playful, exposing, intimidating and playing over with these, finally moving to the conversation again, and harvest the feedback from the participants alongside the questions that i will ask. So 2 hours, with 15 mn break.

Access

• the practice is accessible to diverse needs, bodies of people, no need to partner up, but it is recommended, and not necessary to be couples, can be threes, fours and more. no pressure to speak, or vocalise. this practice has been done with racialised communities and i will again prioritise and welcome the radicalised and marginalised to the front. Wheelchair accessible, actually i would really like to tie wheelchairs.

Bio:

Ayse is a researcher, community builder, coordinator, and "artist in progress," working with communities on the decentralization of energy systems and communication models for energy transitions from petrocultures to cultures that harvest their own energies. He works at a cultural neighborhood center in Nieuw West, completed his Master's in International Development Studies, and is continuing at the Sandberg Institute to find material and sensible tools for energy transition experimentations.

Practicing rope bondage on and off for the past seven years, Ayse views the discipline as part of a quest to understand the energy of affects. Through tying himself and others, he explores the energy necessary to sustain his own life, believing that this practice helps him continue to inspire both himself and other bodies.