I’m excited to bring you this podcast with one of my dearest friends and collaborators, Elioa Steffen. Elioa was an essential part of the Time Zone Research Lab, but our friendship goes back many years before that all the way to the early days of facilitating Power of Hope youth camps. At the Time Zone Elioa’s nickname was the obsidian blade because she is so sharply insightful. You will hear that sharp intelligence shining through this interview, balanced with a truly heart-felt sense of inclusion and a tender and poignant personal experience. In this podcast she is talking about a book she co-authored called A Queer Feedback Handbook, Experiments in Otherwise Arts Education. It really is a handbook, full of useful frames and activities.

To learn more about her work, or to buy the handbook, visit https://www.elisteffen.com.

Elioa Steffen (She/They, USA/NL) is an artist and researcher working in the fields of performance, writing, and social practice. Her work focuses on the intersection of communal narratives, cultural norms, and systemic violence. In 2021, Elioa co-founded In Pursuit of Otherwise Possibilities, Queer Performance Pedagogy and Feedback (IPOP) an educational, artistic research platform exploring pedagogical strategies for supporting queer artists. She is also an Associate Researcher at ATD Lectorate and works in several collaborative constellations exploring trans-feminine voice in religious ecstasy and the pedagogical possibilities of madness.

Elioa’s performances commissioned and produced by The Warp, DOOResidency, (Amsterdam) Gay City, On the Boards, Studio Current, (Seattle), Risk/Reward (Portland), Dixon Place (New York), and Vashon Center for the Arts (Vashon Island) among others. For more www.elisteffen.com