Alanna Lockward

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Alanna Lockward
Born(1961-03-23)23 March 1961
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Died7 January 2019(2019-01-07) (aged 57)
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
EducationUniversidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, Mexico City
Berlin University of the Arts
Known forauthor, Curator and filmmaker
MovementDecolonial aesthetics
Websitealannalockward.wordpress.com

Alanna Lockward (23 March 1961 – 7 January 2019) was an author, curator and filmmaker based in Berlin and Santo Domingo. She was the founding director of Art Labour Archives, a platform for theory, political activism and art since 1996. Lockward had conceptualized and curated the trans-disciplinary meeting BE.BOP (Black Europe Body Politics; 2012–16).

Biography[]

Lockward was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on March 23, 1961. She comes from a family of famous intellectuals, her grandfather was George Augustus Lockward Stamers, a historian, university professor, philologist, writer, journalist, cooperativist and Gideon Society member. He is the award-winning author of the history of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) and other Protestant congregations in the Dominican Republic (“Historia del Protestantismo en Dominicana”). Her great-uncle was the singer and songwriter Juan Lockward.[citation needed]

From 1979-83, she was a student at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, Mexico City. She completed her postgraduate Master's Degree in Art at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. Her thesis was a review of articles from the renowned German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. Her focus here was on the linguistic construction of Black identities ("Counter-reflection of a word field on the daily mirror").[1] Lockward was appointed Director of International Affairs at the in 1988 and has served in several occasions as selection and award jury in national as well as international biennials.

Works[]

Curator[]

  • "Call & Response" BE.BOP.2016 at the Berlin Theater Volksbuehne.[2][3]
  • Spiritual revolutions and "The Scramble for Africa" BE.BOP.2014 at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse.[4]
  • Decolonizing the "Cold" War. BE.BOP.2013 Roundtable and screening program Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin, May 20–23.[5]
  • BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS BE.BOP.2012. Roundtable and screening program Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin, May 4–6.[6]
  • Filipa César – The Embassy Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2011), Berlin solo show in the series Labor Berlin conceived by Valerie Smith, Director of the Visual Arts Department April 15-June 5
  • Truestories. Truesuccess (2009), Freies Museum, Berlin, October 31– November 19.
  • Naturaleza Intervenida (Intervened Nature, 2008) Espacio Iniciarte, Seville. With Juan Ramón-Barbancho, Nilo Casares, and Andrés Isaac Santana, November 16 -December 20. Commissioned by Junta de Andalucía.
  • In His Shoes (2007), Prague Quadrennial performance by Nicolás Dumit Estévez. In cooperation with Franklin Furnace, New York.
  • F-Files (2005), Universität der Künste, Berlin Documentation Exhibition. Commissioned by the Institute for Art in Context.
  • Días Hábiles–Noches Hábiles (Working Days- Working Nights, 2001), Museo del Hombre Dominicano, Museo de Arte Moderno, International Performance Showcase, Santo. Commissioned by the III Festival Internacional de Teatro.
  • 3 Idos, 3 y 2 (Three Gone Ones, 3 y 2, 2001), Museo X-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City Contemporary Art from the Dominican Republic. Commissioned by the Dominican Embassy in Mexico.

Books[]

  • BE.BOP. 2012–2014: El Cuerpo en el Continente de la Conciencia Negra (The Body in the Continent of Black Consciousness) Ediciones del Signo, Buenos Aires, collection "El Desprendimiento".[7]
  • Marassá and the Nothingness (Partridge Africa, 2016).[8]
  • Un Haití Dominicano. Tatuajes fantasmas y narrativas bilaterales (1994–2014) (Santuario, 2014)[9]
  • Apremio. Apuntes sobre el pensamiento y la creación contemporánea desde el Caribe (In Haste. Notes on Thinking and Contemporary Creation from the Perspective of the Caribbean)(Cendeac, 2006).[10]

Films[]

Allen Report, Retracing Transnational African Methodism.[11] received the production prize FONPROCINE 2013.

Awards[]

  • Allianz Cultural Foundation[12]
  • Danish Arts Council
  • Nordic Council of Ministers[13]

Essays[]

  • "Wild at Hair. IngridMwangiRobertHutter: Masks and Skin Politics as a German DeColonial Knowledge Production". In: ReARTIKULACIJA. Artistic-Political-Theoretical-Discursive Platform 10, 11, 12, 13. Marina Grznic (ed.), Belgrade, December 2010, pp. 23–24.
  • "Towards a Utopian Archaeology. Moving-image, Decolonization and Continuities in Haiti, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic". In: Videoarte en Latinoamérica: Una visión crítica. Barcelona: Brumaria, 2008, pp. 81–89.
  • "Pares & Nones: (In) Visible Equality". In: Small Axe. A Journal of Criticism 24, Department of Anthropology Columbia University, New York, 2007, 5 pages.
  • "Elia Alba / Nicolás Dumit Estévez". In: Voces y Visiones. Highlights from El Museo del Barrio´s Permanent Collection. Museo del Barrio, New York, 2006, pp. 16–24.
  • Elia Alba. Los Quehaceres del Agua (Water´s Endeavours) / Mónica Ferreras. La Verticalidad del Círculo (The Verticality of the Circle) / Charo Oquet. Una Sirena en el Reino de este Mundo (A Mermaid in the Kingdom of this World). In: Arte Contemporáneo Dominicano. Casa de América-Turner. Madrid, 2002, pp. 30–33, 66-71. 106–110.

Death[]

She died on 7 January 2019 in Santo Domingo.[14][15]

References[]

  1. ^ Alanna Lockward, "SCHWARZ-BLACK-AFRO — Widerspiegelung eines Wortfeldes im Tagesspiegel 2004-2006", derbraunemob.de; accessed 20 January 2019.(in German)
  2. ^ Berlin, Volksbühne. "Volksbühne Berlin". Archived from the original on 2016-08-18. Retrieved 2016-07-13.
  3. ^ "In Cooperation: BE.BOP 2016. Black Europe Body Politics. Call & Response. curated by Alanna Lockward, 1-3 June 2016, Volksbühne". Africavenir.
  4. ^ "Ballhaus Naunynstraße – BE.BOP. 2014 – Black Europe Body Politics spirituelle Revolutionen und der „Wettlauf um Afrika"".
  5. ^ "Ballhaus Naunynstraße – Be.Bop 2013 Black Europe Body Politics".
  6. ^ "Ballhaus Naunynstraße – Be Bop 2012 Black Europe Body Politics".
  7. ^ "BE.BOP 2012–2014: El Cuerpo en el Continente de la Conciencia Negra". Archived from the original on 2019-07-31. Retrieved 2016-07-13.
  8. ^ Lockward, Alanna (12 February 2016). "Marassa and the Nothingness: Bilingual Edition". PartridgeAfrica – via Amazon.
  9. ^ Whigham, Kerry. "e12.1 Review -Alba Un haití dominicano". Archived from the original on 2016-05-03. Retrieved 2016-07-13.
  10. ^ "Cendeac. Apremio. Apuntes sobre el pensamiento y la creación contemporánea desde el Caribe".
  11. ^ "Allen Report". wordpress.
  12. ^ "Allianz – BE.BOP 2012 Black Europe Body Politics". Archived from the original on 2016-08-17. Retrieved 2016-07-13.
  13. ^ "Baltic Art Center – CRR 2011: Michelle Eistrup, Alanna Lockward & Samuel Olou".
  14. ^ "Fallece la periodista y escritora Alanna Lockward". www.diariolibre.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  15. ^ "Alanna Lockward (1961–2019)". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 24 January 2019.

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