# Alanna Lockward

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**Alanna Lockward** (23 March 1961 – 7 January 2019) was an author, curator and filmmaker based in [Berlin](/source/Berlin) and [Santo Domingo](/source/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). She contributed to the field of [decolonial aesthetics](/source/Decolonial_aesthetics), particularly through an Afropean lens, along with [Teresa María Díaz Nerio](/source/Teresa_Mar%C3%ADa_D%C3%ADaz_Nerio), [Jeannette Ehlers](/source/Jeannette_Ehlers), [Quinsy Gario](/source/Quinsy_Gario), and [Patricia Kaersenhout](/source/Patricia_Kaersenhout).[1][2]

## Biography

Lockward was born in [Santo Domingo](/source/Santo_Domingo), [Dominican Republic](/source/Dominican_Republic), on 23 March 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 to 1983, she was a student at the [Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana](/source/Universidad_Aut%C3%B3noma_Metropolitana)-[Xochimilco](/source/Xochimilco), Mexico City. She completed her postgraduate Master's Degree in Art at the [Universität der Künste](/source/Universit%C3%A4t_der_K%C3%BCnste) in Berlin. Her thesis was a review of articles from the renowned German newspaper *[Der Tagesspiegel](/source/Der_Tagesspiegel).* Her focus here was on the linguistic construction of Black identities ("Counter-reflection of a word field on the daily mirror").[3] Lockward was appointed Director of International Affairs at the [Museo de Arte Moderno de Santo Domingo](/source/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.

## Works

### Curator

- "Call & Response" BE.BOP.2016 at the Berlin Theater Volksbuehne.[4][5]
- Spiritual revolutions and "The Scramble for Africa" BE.BOP.2014 at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse.[6]
- Decolonizing the "Cold" War. BE.BOP.2013 Roundtable and screening program Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin, 20–23 May.[7]
- BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS BE.BOP.2012. Roundtable and screening program Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin, 4–6 May.[8]
- [Filipa César](/source/Filipa_C%C3%A9sar) – The Embassy [Haus der Kulturen der Welt](/source/Haus_der_Kulturen_der_Welt) (2011), Berlin solo show in the series Labor Berlin conceived by Valerie Smith, Director of the Visual Arts Department 15 April – 5 June
- Truestories. Truesuccess (2009), Freies Museum, Berlin, 31 October – 19 November.
- Naturaleza Intervenida (Intervened Nature, 2008) Espacio Iniciarte, Seville. With Juan Ramón-Barbancho, Nilo Casares, and Andrés Isaac Santana, 16 November – 20 December. 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".[9]

- *Marassá and the Nothingness* (Partridge Africa, 2016).[10]
- *Un Haití Dominicano. Tatuajes fantasmas y narrativas bilaterales* (1994–2014) (Santuario, 2014)[11]
- *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).[12]

### Films

*Allen Report, Retracing Transnational African Methodism*.[13] received the production prize FONPROCINE 2013.

### Awards

- Allianz Cultural Foundation[14]
- Danish Arts Council
- Nordic Council of Ministers[15]

### 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](/source/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.[16][17]

## References

1. Lockward, Alanna (2019-07-02), ["Call and Response: Conversations with Three Women Artists on Afropean Decoloniality"](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118929179.ch24), *A Companion to Feminist Art*, 1 ed., Robinson, Hilary (ed.), Wiley, pp. 419–435, [doi:10.1002/9781118929179.ch24](https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118929179.ch24). ISBN 978-1-118-92915-5. [S2CID 203053113](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:203053113), retrieved 2023-01-12

1. Lockward, Alanna (2017), ["Spiritual Revolutions: Afropean Body Politics and the "Secularity" of the Arts"](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55173-9_8), *Regimes of Invisibility in Contemporary Art, Theory and Culture: Image, Racialization, History*, Gržinić, Marina (ed.), Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 103–122, [doi:10.1007/978-3-319-55173-9_8](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55173-9_8). ISBN 978-3-319-55173-9, retrieved 2023-01-12

1. Alanna Lockward, ["SCHWARZ-BLACK-AFRO — Widerspiegelung eines Wortfeldes im Tagesspiegel 2004–2006"](http://www.derbraunemob.de/shared/download/Lockward_Master_Thesis.pdf), derbraunemob.de; accessed 20 January 2019.(in German)

1. Berlin, Volksbühne. ["Volksbühne Berlin"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160818115836/https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/praxis/bebop_2016/). Archived from [the original](https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/praxis/bebop_2016/) on 2016-08-18. Retrieved 2016-07-13.

1. ["In Cooperation: BE.BOP 2016. Black Europe Body Politics. Call & Response. curated by Alanna Lockward, 1–3 June 2016, Volksbühne"](https://web.archive.org/web/20190731164641/http://www.africavenir.org/news-details/article/in-cooperation-bebop-2016-black-europe-body-politics-call-response/print.html). *Africavenir*. Archived from [the original](http://www.africavenir.org/news-details/article/in-cooperation-bebop-2016-black-europe-body-politics-call-response/print.html) on 31 July 2019. Retrieved 1 December 2016.

1. ["Ballhaus Naunynstraße – BE.BOP. 2014 – Black Europe Body Politics spirituelle Revolutionen und der "Wettlauf um Afrika""](http://www.ballhausnaunynstrasse.de/veranstaltung/be.bop._2014__black_europe_body_politics_spirituelle_revolutionen_und_der_wettlauf_um_afrika_13.05.2014)

1. ["Ballhaus Naunynstraße – Be.Bop 2013 Black Europe Body Politics"](http://www.ballhausnaunynstrasse.de/stueck/be.bop_2013_black_europe_body_politics)

1. ["Ballhaus Naunynstraße – Be Bop 2012 Black Europe Body Politics"](http://www.ballhausnaunynstrasse.de/veranstaltung/be_bop_black_europe_body_politics_04.05.2012)

1. ["BE.BOP 2012–2014: El Cuerpo en el Continente de la Conciencia Negra"](https://web.archive.org/web/20190731164652/https://www.edicionesdelsigno.com.ar/el-desprendimiento/be-bop-2012-2014-el-cuerpo-en-el-continente-de-la-conciencia-negra/). Archived from [the original](http://www.edicionesdelsigno.com.ar/el-desprendimiento/be-bop-2012-2014-el-cuerpo-en-el-continente-de-la-conciencia-negra/) on 2019-07-31. Retrieved 2016-07-13.

1. Lockward, Alanna (12 February 2016). *Marassa and the Nothingness: Bilingual Edition*. PartridgeAfrica. ISBN 978-1482825732.

1. Whigham, Kerry. ["e12.1 Review -Alba Un haití dominicano"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160503162438/http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/emisferica-121-caribbean-rasanblaj/alba). Archived from [the original](http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/emisferica-121-caribbean-rasanblaj/alba) on 2016-05-03. Retrieved 2016-07-13.

1. ["Cendeac. Apremio. Apuntes sobre el pensamiento y la creación contemporánea desde el Caribe"](http://www.cendeac.net/es/editorial/catalogo/19)

1. ["Allen Report"](https://allenreportdocumentary.wordpress.com/). wordpress.

1. ["Allianz – BE.BOP 2012 Black Europe Body Politics"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160817010630/https://kulturstiftung.allianz.de/en/projects/visual_arts/project_archive/be_bop_2012/index.html). Archived from [the original](https://kulturstiftung.allianz.de/en/projects/visual_arts/project_archive/be_bop_2012/index.html) on 2016-08-17. Retrieved 2016-07-13.

1. ["Baltic Art Center – CRR 2011: Michelle Eistrup, Alanna Lockward & Samuel Olou"](https://web.archive.org/web/20190731164644/http://archive.balticartcenter.com/crr-2011-michelle-eistrup-alanna-lockward-samuel-olou/). Archived from [the original](http://archive.balticartcenter.com/crr-2011-michelle-eistrup-alanna-lockward-samuel-olou/) on 31 July 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2016.

1. ["Fallece la periodista y escritora Alanna Lockward"](https://www.diariolibre.com/actualidad/fallece-la-periodista-y-escritora-alanna-lockward-AO11795216) (in es-ES). *www.diariolibre.com*. Retrieved 24 January 2019.

1. ["Alanna Lockward (1961–2019)"](https://www.artforum.com/news/alanna-lockward-1961-2019-78370). *www.artforum.com*. Retrieved 24 January 2019.

## External links

- [Art Labour Archives](https://artlabourarchives.wordpress.com/)
- [Adventures in Afro Europe.](http://afropean.com/)
- [Alanna Lockward's Archive – Public Reading Palais am Festungsgraben .](https://www.berliner-herbstsalon.de/en/vierter-berliner-herbstsalon/artist/alanna-lockward/)

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