Saturday, February 13
8P through 12A
408 S Spring Street, DTLA 90013
info@lunafactoryla.com
In 2025, we have searched to find a new home for our creative work Suspended Chords — a unique presentation of Japanese Rope Bondage to live, improvised classical piano.
This is your invitation to a special evening we have created on Thursday February 13th, 2025 at 8 pm. We hope that you can join us for an intimate, artistic gathering of like-minded people we respect and admire. Suspended Chords has partnered with us, THE LUNA FACTORY, an art gallery in the historic core of Downtown Los Angeles to foster a new era and collective of artists seeking to present kink and erotica in a new light.
What you can anticipate from this night is a curated selection of art works and wearable pieces from Wade Coggin, Dave Yaden, Simon Sail, Patrick Hannah Studios, Aaron McPolin and Alexx Henry. You will also be able to witness and experience an immersive web installation from Simon Sail while enjoying contemporary cocktails from Rum4Twenty4, a creative events agency that focuses on delicious hospitality. At 9 PM we will be conducting a performance of Suspended Chords performed by Simon Sail, TenInchYaels, and the Grammy Award Winning Dave Yaden.
8 PM: Gallery Opening, Social Hour, Cocktails
9 PM: Performance
9:45 PM – 12 AM: Social Hour, Cocktails
Please note that a percentage of our ticket and bar sales will be donated to the Center for Cultural Innovation — https://cciarts.org/ — in response to the recent fires that ravaged our city.
MORE INFO ON SHIBARI
The word shibari came into common use in the West at some point in the 1990s to describe the bondage art Kinbaku. Shibari (縛り) is a Japanese word that broadly means “binding” or “tying” in most contexts, but is used in BDSM to refer to this style of decorative bondage.
Shibari and Kinbaku focuses on the aesthetics and display of the body. As a result, and due to the manipulation of body parts using rope to achieve this, it is common, though not always required, for models or participants to be fully naked and the art form regularly incorporates aspects of BDSM such as erotic humiliation. It may be used for restraint as well as solely being a visual
Generally recognized as “father of Kinbaku”, Seiu Ito, started studying and researching Hojōjutsu (the art of binding a prisoner of war) and is credited with the inception of Kinbaku, though it is noted that he drew inspiration from other art forms of the time including Kabuki theatre and Ukiyoe woodblock prints. Kinbaku became widely popular in Japan in the 1950s through magazines such as Kitan Club and Yomikiri Romance, which published the first naked bondage photographs. In the 1960s, people such as Eikichi Osada began to appear performing live SM shows often including a large amount of rope bondage, today these performers are often referred to as Nawashi (rope master) or Bakushi (from kinbakushi, meaning bondage master).
Kinbaku has become popular in the Western BDSM scene in its own right and has influenced Western-style bondage.
The aesthetics of the bound person’s position is important: in particular, Japanese bondage is distinguished by its use of specific katas (forms) and aesthetic rules. Sometimes, asymmetric and often intentionally uncomfortable positions are employed. In particular, Japanese bondage is very much about the way the rope is applied and the pleasure is more in the journey than the destination. In this way the rope becomes an extension of the nawashi‘s hands and is used to communicate.
Traditional Japanese bondage techniques use natural vegetable fiber rope (hemp, jute, or linen) exclusively, though contemporary Japanese Masters have been working with a range of rope materials. The natural fibers easily lock to each other which means the bondage can be held together by the friction of twists and turns or very simple knots.
ABOUT THE LUNA FACTORY
The Luna Factory in DTLA is a welcoming space that offers the thriving community of DTLA’s Gallery Row district a warm, safe and inviting space. The gallery is frequented by musicians, artists and is open to all creative spirits. There is a full schedule of weekly events and we welcome you!
408 S Spring St., DTLA 90013