PERSPECTIVES ON: Weird / Strange / Queer Feedback
Explore strategies for feedback spaces that are based on the independent performing artist and their needs, desires and curiosity.
10:00 - 16:00 (both days)
THORAVEJ 29, KØBENHAVN NV
Participation in the event is FREE, but please reserve a ticket as seats are limited. You can book your ticket here:
Frame
Have you ever received feedback that felt just right?Feedback that fed into your artistic process rather than evaluated it in terms of an established aesthetics or curated concerns?
In this seminar, HAUT in collaboration with Toaster invite you to explore feedback as a Needs-based and performative strategy to sustainable performing arts. Rather than sticking to methods that lead to polite, conflict-averse and inconsistent feedback, we wish to chart communal practices for feedbacking performing arts to sustain the artists’ processes and practices.
With this two-day seminar, we invite arts professionals from Northern Europe to engage in necessary conversations about care, sustainability and fair practice in feedback. Through keynotes, panel discussions and workshops, we will explore strategies for feedback spaces that are based on the independent performing artist and their needs, desires and curiosity. By rethinking feedback as an act of care, for which both consent and boundaries must be negotiated, we invite reflections on intersectional and queer practices in the Danish performing arts landscape.
TICKET BOOKING: It's possible to register for either full days or half days; choose the ticket that suits you best. You can also use the ticket booking system to register for the free lunch and purchase In Pursuit of Otherwise Possibilities (IPOP)'s new handbook: A Queer Feedback Handbook: Experiments in Otherwise Arts Education.
PROGRAM: Check out the program below and sign up for the modules that spark your curiosity and can give you new perspectives.
Thursday – TALKS about a needs-based and queer feedback
10:00 - 12:30 Mette Tranholm and Marie Mors will discuss their book ‘Feedback in Performing Arts Processes’ from 2022 to contextualize the work on feedback in Danish performing arts. The conversation it followed by a collective reflection.
12:30 - 13:30 Vegetarian lunch.
13:30 - 16:00 Elioa Steffen from the Amsterdam-based platform In Pursuit of Otherwise Possibilities (IPOP) will give a presentation based on their new handbook on queer feedback, which can be bought at the seminar. Elioa and IPOP will demonstrate a Queer Feedback Session with an artist who has been in a HAUT residency. Here, we will co-create a feedback space that nourishes the artist's practice and process.
Since 2021, IPOP has investigated needs- and pleasure-based feedback in three cycles of Queer Feedback Sessions, where approximately 30 LGBTQ+-identifying artists have developed and tested feedback methods that nurture their artistic practice.
Friday – Guided workshops about care and feedback
10:00 - 12:30 Dramaturg Szymon Adamczak from the Amsterdam-based platform In Pursuit of Otherwise Possibilities (IPOP) will introduce their new handbook on queer feedback as a tool. Szymon will invite you to use exercises from the book to reflect on feedback as an ecosystem for both artists and institutions. Based on own reflections, we will enter into a conversation about how to create the best feedback conditions for artistic research within the independent scene of Danish performing arts.
12:30 - 13:30 Vegetarian lunch.
13:30 - 16:00 HAUT's artistic leader Alex Blum will facilitate a workshop on care practices in artistic feedback. Based on Alex's own work with consent rehearsals, participants will be invited to work with their own, embodied needs for care in artistic research. We will spend time together filling in a ‘care rider’ template developed by the artist body_hacker/Sall Lam Toro. A ‘care rider’, much like the tech rider, can contribute to an overview of the artist's needs in both artistic residencies and production.
Artists / contributors
Springing from the question: "what is needed right now in order for the artists and the field to develop?" we invite new thoughts and discourses into the Danish performing arts landscape to inspire, provoke and act as a catalyst for artistic development.
PERSPECTIVES ON is a platform for knowledge-sharing, conversation and learning, and is programmed by HAUT in collaboration with national and international co-curators.