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.
20.11.25
21.11.25
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: Orienter dig i programmet herunder og tilmeld dig de moduler der vækker din nysgerrighed og kan bidrage med nye perspektiver.
Thursday – TALKS about a needs-based and queer feedback
In the morning, 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.
Warm and vegetarian lunch.
After lunch Elioa Steffen from the Amsterdam-based platform In Pursuit of Otherwise Possibilities (IPOP) to 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
In the morning, 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.
Warm and vegetarian lunch.
After a warm lunch HAUT's artistic director Alex Blum will lead 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
Elioa Steffen
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 Elioa’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.
Szymon Adamczak
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 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.
Marie Mors
Marie Mors (she/her) holds a MA in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Copenhagen and specialized in artistic development processes in performing arts. She has worked as a dramaturg and process consultant at several theatres. For several years, she was an artistic process consultant at the Royal Ballet, where she worked with artistic and organizational development and has subsequently been vice-rector at the Danish National School of Performing Arts. Her development practice focuses on process design, artistry development and artistic collaboration processes.
Mette Tranholm
Mette Tranholm (she/her) is Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Copenhagen, freelance dramaturg and responsible for BETTY UDVIKLER at the Betty Nansen Theatre. She researches contemporary performing arts, performance collectives and acting techniques from a new materialist perspective. Her dramaturgical practice centers on the concept of the open work and experimental narrative forms.
About the seminar
PERSPECTIVES ON pushes the performing arts forward through thinking and knowledge.
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.