The Amsterdam-based queer pedagogy and feedback platform In Pursuit of Otherwise Possibilities (IPOP) has developed an approach to working with feedback based on the needs of creative individuals. This approach, which is experimental and performative in its methodology, draws on community-based work, informed consent, somatic work—that is, work that engages the body and mind—and queer knowledge. Since 2021, the IPOP team has organized four cycles of experimental Queer Feedback Sessions in the Netherlands and Belgium, during which approximately 50 artists identifying as LGBTQ+ developed and tested approaches that support their artistic practice.

The workshop aims to support both individual artists and self-organized groups in developing their own tools for giving and receiving feedback. The practice is based on co-designing feedback sessions and building alternative ways of learning. The two-day hands-on workshop will be facilitated by the co-authors of the handbook: Szymon Adamczak, Elioa Steffen, and alex blum. 

The workshop will be accompanied by the Polish premiere of the publication.

Please note! On January 16, the workshop will end at 3:00 PM.

*As part of our accessibility policy, we are offering 3 free tickets to artists who identify as LGBTQ+ and have limited financial resources. Please send applications to: kontakt@pawilontanca.pl
. Applications will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis.

A speculative artist and facilitator working in dance, visual arts, and curatorship, based in Amsterdam. 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 queer belonging – an effort to entangle with others and the world beyond the normative structures we have inherited.

(she/her, USA/NL)

An artist, writer, and interdisciplinary theater and performance maker. A graduate of Das Arts/DAS Theatre and THIRD artistic research. With experience in art organization and programming, he is interested in the proximity of artistic practice and civic engagement. As a dramaturg and pedagogue, he frequently collaborates with LGBTQ+ artists in theater, dance, and performance. His practice is intertwined with AIDS/HIV activism.

(he/his, PL/NL)

A choreographer, political scientist, somatic activist, and writer based between Copenhagen and Amsterdam, where she/they graduated from the School for New Dance Development. Since 2025, alex has served as the artistic leader of the HAUT residency center in Copenhagen. Through dance performances, somatic workshops, and texts, alex explores exclusion through embodied listening and (non)consensual touch. By questioning whose voices are heard, whose bodies are seen, cared for, mourned, and commemorated, alex seeks sensual detours from identity politics to free the moving body from its political fixations of 'gender' and 'whiteness'.

(she/they, DK)