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zzz Bookpresentation: A Queer Feedback Handbook. Experiments in Otherwise Arts Education.
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With an introduction by the ATD Lectorate professor Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca.
Drawing on three years of experiences with developing a queer communal feedback model, the authors of educational and pedagogical platform In Pursuit of Otherwise Possibilities present their first handbook.
This publication proposes a need-based and performative approach to feedback, looking at sessions as experiments co-designed with artists and researchers that empower them to cultivate their desires and foster communal learning within a caring environment. Premiere of “A Queer Handbook” will be an opportunity to reflect on IPOP’s mission so far. Presenters will offer key concepts, such as feedback ecology, promiscuous care and non-identitarian queerness alongside teaching resources and feedback activities to try. This work is an invitation for everyone who in any way supports and nurtures artistic development and is interested to look at a feedback culture through a new lens.
Artists
Elioa Steffen
(She/They, USA/NL) is an artist working in the fields of performance, visual art, and curation. Her work focuses on the intersection of communal narratives, cultural norms, and systemic violence. At the heart of Eloai’s practice is the pursuit of a queer belonging, an effort to entangle with others and the world beyond the normative structures we have inherited. Currently, she is working in several collaborative constellations exploring both trans-feminine voice in religious ecstasy and the pedagogical possibilities of madness. She is an alumni of DAS Theatre. For more at www.elisteffen.com
Szymon Adamczak
(He/him, PL/NL) is an artist, writer, theatre and performance maker working across disciplines. With a background in organizing and programming in the arts, he is interested in the proximity of artistic practice and civic engagement. As a dramaturg he has been supporting a number of LGBTQ+ artists in the field of theatre and dance, specializing with the notions of auto-representation and self-determination. Szymon has a vital interest in HIV-related culture and is conducting an ongoing research on transnational queer activism as seen from the perspective of Poland and post-soviet space at large. He is a board member of Queer Museum in Warsaw and an alumni of DAS Theatre and THIRD. www.szymonadamczak.com
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