User:Rafapetunia/sandbox

Alanna Lockward (born March, 23, 1961) is an author, Curator and filmmaker based in Berlin and Santo Domingo. She is the founding director of Art Labour Archives, a platform spiraling consistently on theory, political activism and art since 1996. Lockward has conceptualized and curated the trans-disciplinary meeting BE.BOP. BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS (2012-2016)

Early life and education
Lockward was born in Santo Domingo D. N., Dominican Republic on March 23, 1961. She comes from a family of famous intelectuals, 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(de). She was a student at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, Mexico City from 1979 to 1983. She completed her post-graduate Masters in Art in Context at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. Her thesis was a critical compilation of 100 articles from the mainstream German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, there she focus on searching for how Black identities are constructed linguistically "Counter-reflection of a word field on the daily mirror".

Career
Lockward was appointed Director of International Affairs at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Santo Domingo in 1988 and has served in several occasions as selection and award jury in national as well as international biennials.

Curator
+Goethe Institut Lomé, Togo +Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Berlin +Art Basel, Miami Beach +Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo/Dominican Republic
 * "Call & Response" BE.BOP.2016 at the Berlin Theater Volksbuehne.
 * Spiritual revolutions and "The Scramble for Africa" BE.BOP.2014 at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse.
 * Decolonizing the “Cold” War. BE.BOP.2013 Roundtable and screening program Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin, May 20th–23rd
 * BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS BE.BOP.2012. Roundtable and screening program Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin May 4th-6th
 * 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 15th-June 5th
 * Truestories.Truesuccess (2009)Freies Museum Berlin October 31st– November 19th
 * Naturaleza Intervenida (Intervened Nature 2008)Espacio Iniciarte, Seville With Juan Ramón-Barbancho, Nilo Casares and Andrés Isaac Santana, November 16th -December 20th 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
 * Pares & Nones (Evens & Odds)(2002-2008) Contemporary Photography from Haiti and the Dominican Republic
 * 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".
 * Marassá and the Nothingness (Partridge Africa 2016).
 * Un Haití Dominicano. Tatuajes fantasmas y narrativas bilaterales (1994-2014)(Santuario 2014)
 * 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).

Films
Allen Report, Retracing Transnational African Methodism. received the production prize FONPROCINE 2013.

Awards

 * Allianz Cultural Foundation
 * Danish Arts Council
 * Nordic Council of Ministers

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. P. 23-24.
 * Towards a Utopian Archeology. Moving-image, Decolonization and Continuities in Haiti,Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. In: Videoarte en Latinoamérica: Una visión crítica. Barcelona: Brumaria. 2008. P. 81-89.
 * Pares &amp; 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. P. 16 / P. 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. P. 30-33 / P. 66-71 / P. 106-110.