BE.BOP 2016 Press Release Copenhagen
BE.BOP 2016.
BLACK EUROPE BODY
POLITICS.
CALL & RESPONSE.
5-7 June 2016
Trampoline House
& Copenhagen
University, Copenhagen
The fourth edition of BE.BOP, a
production of Art Labour Archives, brings together this year artistic
practices and scientific contributions under the thematic framework of CALL
& RESPONSE. The designation CALL & RESPONSE describes
the antiphony effect, characteristic to African musical legacies in which the
audience responds to a leading voice at systematic intervals. BE.BOP also
operates as a safe space, a quintessential maroon category, and as such has
become an utterly rewarding collective experience. It starts with a three day
intense program at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin and continues
in Copenhagen at the Trampoline House and the University of Copenhagen.
BE.BOP brings into focus once again, a historical
perspective on the racialized inequalities during the periods of imperial
expansion and colonization. Access to social and physical mobility was firmly
organized, similar to the rigidity of the system of apartheid in South Africa.
Mobility – who is mobile and how, who is permitted to go where, and who is
considered a migrant, 'expat' or 'tourist' etc. - is still founded on a
structural coloniality that is evident in citizenship statuses of various
migration regimes. The event fosters a discussion of the possibilities to
overcome currently enduring colonial inequalities and "uneven
mobilities" (Mimi Sheller), as well as new forms of conviviality in the societies
of our globalized world. In view of the current crisis of European societies,
this is an evident and pressing issue and in the tradition of the ancestors,
BE.BOP summons you to bear witness, experience healing hands and to participate
in the timeless rejuvenating ritual of story.
PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS + GUESTS
BE.BOP 2016 introduces international guests, artists, activists
and scholars: Sandra Abd’Allah-Alvarez Ramírez + Laura Alegre + Dalida María
Benfield + Gurminder K. Bhambra + Manuela Boatca + Erna Brodber + Lesley–Ann
Brown + Artwell Cain + Kjell Caminha + Augustus Casely-Hayford + Mathias
Danbolt + Teresa María Díaz Nerio + Yoel Díaz Vázquez + Frank Dragtenstein +
Rebecca Drammeh + Simmi Dullay + Jeannette Ehlers + Fatima El Tayeb + Quinsy
Gario + Cristel Gbaguidi + Pedro Pablo Gómez + Gillion Grantsaan + Adler
Guerrier + Ylva Habel + Sasha Huber + Malcolm Momodou Jallow + Jane Jin Kaisen
+ Patricia Kaersenhout + Nazila Kivi + Krudas Cubensi + Napuli Langa + Mette
Moestrup + Mwangi Hutter + Patrice Naiambana + Tone O. Nielsen + Tanja Ostojic
+ Zulma Palermo + Malena Pestellini + Anne Ring Petersen + Tuleka Prah + Rod
Sachs + Moritz Schramm + Robbie Shilliam + Helle Stenum + Javier Tapia + Ovidiu
Tichindeleanu + Rolando Vázquez.
Sunday June 5 at Trampoline
House. The day begins with SESSION I: FREE WOMEN OF COLOR IN/AND SCANDINAVIA. THE LEGACY OF NELLA LARSEN a panel discussion featuring Lesley-Ann Brown + Anna Neye + Jane Jin Kaisen
and moderated by Patricia Kaersenhout. This is followed by SESSION II: CHALLENGING SANCTIONED IGNORANCE IN/AND
COLONIAL AMNESIA. A WORKSHOP ON SELF-NAMING BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS IN SCANDINAVIA with
Simmi Dullay + Ylva Habel + Helle Stenum + Javier Tapia. Moderated by
Gillion Grantsaan. The day ends with a screening “Allen Report. Retracing
Transnational African Methodism” by Alanna Lockward.
Monday June 6 at Trampoline
House. Keynote by Gurminder K. Bhambra, a professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK.
She is also Guest Professor of Sociology and History at the Centre
for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Linnaeus
University and the 2016 Boaventura de Sousa Santos Chair in the Faculty of
Economics, University of Coimbra. Her research addresses how the experiences
and claims of non-European “others” tend to be rendered invisible to the
standard narratives and analytical frameworks of social science. Moderated
by Rolando Vázquez. This will be followed by SESSION III: DENMARK VS. SWEDEN. BETWEEN THE
HYPERVISUALITY OF 'ISLAM' AND THE INVISIBILITY OF AFROPHOBIA with Malcolm
Momodou Jallow, Mette Moestrup , Julia Roth, Nazila Kivi, Kjell Caminha.
Moderated by Quinsy Gario.
Tuesday June 7 at the University of Copenhagen. The 3rd
and last day begins with a performance by Rebecca Drammeh, an actress in sign language. She studied at Stockholm
University of Arts for three years. She has written the play "Jainaba will
not stop dreaming” about a girl with a
big dream, whose life is changed when she hears Whitney Houston. Her dream is
to be a singer, but she is deaf and deals with both singing and identity.
Rebecca has acted in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark. This will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Alanna Lockward (curator), a Keynote by Walter
Mignolo, moderated by Moritz Schramm. This is followed by a
performance by Patrice Naiambana, The Man
that Committed Thought, winner of the Edinburgh Fringe First Award. Our last panel is on Jeannette Ehlers' upcoming publication with
contributions by Mathias Danbolt, Alanna Lockward and Rolando Vázquez. Moderated by Anne Ring
Petersen.
Alanna Lockward + Curator
Walter Mignolo + Advisor
Julia Roth + Commissioned Works
Coordinator
Elena Quintarelli + Curatorial Assistant
Partners: Humboldt
Universität zu Berlin, Center for Global Studies and the Humanities + IDEA.
Arts + Society + Transnational Decolonial Institute + Art, Culture and Politics
in the ‘Postmigrant Condition' (Danish Council for Independent Research). +
Ediciones del Signo + Trampoline House + University of Copenhagen
Sponsored
in Denmark by the Danish Arts Foundation
Sunday
June 5
Trampoline
House
11:00-13:00
SESSION I
FREE WOMEN OF COLOR
IN/AND SCANDINAVIA. THE LEGACY OF NELLA LARSEN
Lesley-Ann Brown + Anna Neye + Jane Jin Kaisen
Moderated by Teresa Maria Díaz Nerio
13:00-15:00 BREAK
15:00-17:00
SESSION II
CHALLENGING
SANCTIONED IGNORANCE IN/AND COLONIAL AMNESIA. A WORKSHOP ON SELF-NAMING BLACK
CONSCIOUSNESS IN SCANDINAVIA.
Simmi Dullay + Ylva Habel + Helle
Stenum + Javier Tapia
Moderated by Alanna Lockward
18:00- 20:00
Screening
of Allen Report. Retracing Transnational African Methodism.
Moderated by Julia
Roth
Monday June 6
Trampoline House
11:00-13:00
Keynote by Gurminder K. Bhambra
Moderated by Dalida Maria Benfield
13:00-15:00 BREAK
15:00-17:00
SESSION III
DENMARK VS. SWEDEN.
BETWEEN THE HYPERVISUALITY OF 'ISLAM' AND THE INVISIBILITY OF AFROPHOBIA
Malcolm Momodou Jallow + Mette
Moestrup + Julia Roth + Nazila Kivi + Kjell Caminha
Moderated by Quinsy Gario
Tuesday June 7
University of
Copenhagen
11:00-12:00
Performance by Rebecca Drammeh
Q & A moderated by Alanna Lockward
12:00-12:30
BREAK
12:30-13:30
Keynote by Walter Mignolo
Moderated
by Moritz Schramm
13:30-14:30 BREAK
14:30-15:30
Performance by Patrice Naiambana.
The Man Who Committed Thought
15:30 – 15:45 BREAK
15:45-17:00
Panel on Jeannette Ehlers' upcoming
publication with contributions by
Mathias Danbolt, Alanna Lockward and Rolando Vázquez.
Moderated
by Anne Ring Petersen