On Afrofobia: Towards Decolonial Cultural Approaches w. Alanna Lockward
Here is the video of Alanna Lockward's recent intervention at ‘On Afrophobia: Towards Decolonial Curatorial Approaches’ . This seminar was held on January 18th, 2016 at Valand Academy in Gothenburg, Sweden. Through interventions by curators, artists and researchers, the event offered different approaches towards decolonial curatorial practices – seeking to acknowledge and promote Afropean knowledge and visibility, hopefully counteracting through art, on the increasing Afrophobia in today’s Europe.
With: Nana Adusei-Poku, Christine Eyene, Alanna Lockward and Christian Nyampeta. Moderated by Kjell Caminha.
The booklet with the abstracts can be seen here http://kjellcaminha.com/
About Alanna Lockward:
ALANNA LOCKWARD is a Berlin based Dominican author and decolonial catalyst. She is the founding director of Art Labour Archives, an exceptional platform centered on theory, political activism and art. Her interests are Caribbean marronage discursive and mystical legacies in time-based practices, critical race theory, decolonial aesthetics/aesthesis, Black feminism and womanist ethics. Lockward is the author of ‘Apremio: apuntes sobre el pensamiento y la creación contemporánea desde el Caribe’ (Cendeac, 2006), a collection of essays, the short novel ‘Marassá y la Nada’ (Santuario, 2013) and ‘Un Haití Dominicano. Tatuajes fantasmas y narrativas bilaterales’ (1994-2014), a compilation of her investigative work on the history and current challenges between both island-nations (Santuario, 2014). She was cultural editor of ‘Listín Diario’, research journalist of Rumbo magazine and columnist of the Miami Herald and is currently a columnist of Acento.com.do. Her essays and reviews have been widely published internationally by Afrikadaa, Atlántica, ARTECONTEXTO, Arte X Excelencias, Art Nexus, Caribbean InTransit and Savvy Journal. In 2014 she was the guest columnist of Camera Austria. At the Museo de Arte Moderno (Santo Domingo) Lockward was appointed Director of International Affairs (1988) and was designated as Selection Jury of the XX Bienal Nacional de Artes Visuales (1996) and as award jury in its 26th edition (2011). She has been a guest lecturer at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, the Decolonial Summer School Middelburg, the University of Warwick, Dutch Art Institute and Goldsmiths University of London and has been a panelist at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (South Africa) and Duke, Columbia and Princeton Universities in the US. She is academic advisor of Transart Institute and is associated scholar of Young Scholars Network Black Diaspora and Germany. She has conceptualized and curated the groundbreaking trans-disciplinary meeting ‘BE.BOP. BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS’ (2012-2014) @ Ballhaus Naunynstrasse. Lockward has been awarded by the Allianz Cultural Foundation, the Danish Arts Council and the Nordic Council of Ministers. Her first documentary project on Black Liberation Theology and the transnational history of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) received the production prize FONPROCINE 2013.
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