In Pursuit of Otherwise Possibilities (Queer Performance Pedagogy and Feedback) is an educational, artistic research platform exploring how art spaces can better foster queer artists and practices. Established in 2021 by its coordinators, Elioa Steffen and Szymon Adamczak, and in collaboration with choreographer alex blum, the project has organized three editions of its experimental, communal Queer Feedback Sessions at the Academie voor Theater en Dans. Sessions hosted established, emerging and student-artists from the fields of performing arts, design, visual arts, artistic researchers and film directors. 
 
Through workshops and teach-ins IPOP offers conceptual and practical frameworks to approach feedback from need-based perspectives. IPOP explores a dearth of pedagogical practices designed for the specific needs and worldviews of LGBTQ+ students. "Queering Artistic Feedback" (2022) is IPOP's first publication and can be read for free at IPOP's website. In 2025 a handbook based on our pedagogical approach is scheduled for a release.

About the facilitators: 
alex blum (she/her, DK) is a choreographer, political educator, somatic activist, and writer based between Copenhagen and Amsterdam, where she graduated from the School for New Dance Development. In her artistic work, alex looks for sensuous detours from identity politics by means of touch and voice work. Through dance performances, somatic workshops, and text, alex explores (dis)enfranchisement through (dis)embodied listening and (non)consensual touch. By questioning who is afforded a voice, whose bodies are witnessed, cared for, mourned and commemorated, alex explores the (im)possibility of trans* embodiment and the refusal of genocide. 
 
Szymon Adamczak (he/him, PL/NL) is a dramaturg, writer, theatre and performance maker working across disciplines and social contexts. Alumni of DAS Theatre and THIRD, a postgraduate program for artistic research. He works as an co-artistic director of IPOP, a platform for queer performance pedagogy and feedback. Szymon is a board member and collaborator of Queer Museum in Warsaw and has a vital interest in HIV-related culture. In his dramaturgical work he supports choreographers and various artists and amateurs who do not have prior stage experience. In his archival research, Szymon explores stories of transnational activism, processes of westernization and strategies for queer survival after 1989.

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