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** [http://www.contramare.net/site/pt/decolonial-aesthetics/ "Estética Descolonial"], ''contramare.net'', 7 Jun 2017; [https://triplovblog.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/cultura-152.pdf#page=9 repr. in] ''Cultura: Jornal Angolano de Artes e Letras'' 152, Jan 2018, 9-11. {{pt}}
 
** [http://www.contramare.net/site/pt/decolonial-aesthetics/ "Estética Descolonial"], ''contramare.net'', 7 Jun 2017; [https://triplovblog.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/cultura-152.pdf#page=9 repr. in] ''Cultura: Jornal Angolano de Artes e Letras'' 152, Jan 2018, 9-11. {{pt}}
 
* with Dalida María Benfield, Raúl Moarquech Ferrera Balanquet, Pedro Pablo Gómez, and Miguel Rojas-Sotelo, [https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/inter/2012-n111-inter0103/66639ac.pdf "Décolonialité et expérience esthétique: une approximation"], trans. Jérôme Delgado, ''Inter: art actuel'' 111: "Espace public", 2012, pp 35-39. {{fr}}
 
* with Dalida María Benfield, Raúl Moarquech Ferrera Balanquet, Pedro Pablo Gómez, and Miguel Rojas-Sotelo, [https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/inter/2012-n111-inter0103/66639ac.pdf "Décolonialité et expérience esthétique: une approximation"], trans. Jérôme Delgado, ''Inter: art actuel'' 111: "Espace public", 2012, pp 35-39. {{fr}}
* [https://socialtextjournal.org/periscope_article/black-europe-body-politics-towards-an-afropean-decolonial-aesthetics/ "Black Europe Body Politics: Towards an Afropean Decolonial Aesthetics"], in ''Decolonial AestheSis'', eds. Walter Mignolo and Rolando Vázquez, Social Text, Jul 2013; repr. in ''Afroeuropean Cartographies'', ed. Dominic Thomas, Newcastle upon Thyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, pp 132-146. Earlier presented as [https://dutchartinstitute.eu/page/1635/shift-in-my-thinking a lecture] for DAI Arnhem, Oct 2011 [http://idea.ro/revista/pdf/idea39.pdf#page=100 (transcript)]. {{en}}
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* [https://monoskop.org/images/3/39/BE.BOP_2012.pdf#page=5 "Decolonial Diasporic Aesthetics: Black German Body Politics"], in ''BE.BOP 2012. Black Europe Body Politics'', eds. Alanna Lockward and Walter Mignolo, Berlin: Kultursprünge im Ballhaus Naunynstraße, 2012, pp 9-12. {{en}}
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* [https://socialtextjournal.org/periscope_article/black-europe-body-politics-towards-an-afropean-decolonial-aesthetics/ "Black Europe Body Politics: Towards an Afropean Decolonial Aesthetics"], in ''Decolonial AestheSis'', eds. Walter Mignolo and Rolando Vázquez, Social Text, Jul 2013; [https://monoskop.org/images/2/2b/BE.BOP_2013_Decolonizing_the_Cold_War.pdf#page=10 shortened repr. in] ''BE.BOP 2013. Black Europe Body Politics. Decolonizing the "Cold" War'', eds. Alanna Lockward and Walter Mignolo, Berlin: Kultursprünge im Ballhaus Naunynstraße, 2013, pp 10-11; repr. in ''Afroeuropean Cartographies'', ed. Dominic Thomas, Newcastle upon Thyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, pp 132-146. Earlier presented as [https://dutchartinstitute.eu/page/1635/shift-in-my-thinking a lecture] for DAI Arnhem, Oct 2011 [http://idea.ro/revista/pdf/idea39.pdf#page=100 (transcript)]. {{en}}
 
** [http://idea.ro/revista/pdf/idea39.pdf#page=100 "Estetica decolonialæ diasporicæ: soma-politica Europei negre"], ''IDEA'' 39, Cluj: IDEA, 2011, pp 98-99. {{ro}}
 
** [http://idea.ro/revista/pdf/idea39.pdf#page=100 "Estetica decolonialæ diasporicæ: soma-politica Europei negre"], ''IDEA'' 39, Cluj: IDEA, 2011, pp 98-99. {{ro}}
 
** "Politique du corps dans l’Europe noire: vers une esthétique afropéenne décoloniale", ''Tumultes'' 48:1, 2017, pp 103-115. [https://www.cairn.info/revue-tumultes-2017-1-page-103.htm] {{fr}}
 
** "Politique du corps dans l’Europe noire: vers une esthétique afropéenne décoloniale", ''Tumultes'' 48:1, 2017, pp 103-115. [https://www.cairn.info/revue-tumultes-2017-1-page-103.htm] {{fr}}
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* [https://monoskop.org/images/4/48/Truth_Is_Concrete_A_Handbook_for_Artistic_Strategies_in_Real_Politics_2014.pdf#page=90 "Unveiling the Whip: Decoloniality and the 'Unintended Liberating Dimension' of Enslavement"], in ''Truth Is Concrete: A Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real Politics'', eds. steirischer herbst and Florian Malzacher, Berlin: Sternberg Press, and Graz: steirischer herbst, 2014, 86-95. {{en}}
 
* [https://monoskop.org/images/4/48/Truth_Is_Concrete_A_Handbook_for_Artistic_Strategies_in_Real_Politics_2014.pdf#page=90 "Unveiling the Whip: Decoloniality and the 'Unintended Liberating Dimension' of Enslavement"], in ''Truth Is Concrete: A Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real Politics'', eds. steirischer herbst and Florian Malzacher, Berlin: Sternberg Press, and Graz: steirischer herbst, 2014, 86-95. {{en}}
 
* [https://issuu.com/centroleon/docs/libro_arte_contemporaneo_dominicano/93 "Arte desde Saint-Dominique: ecos diasporicos en el 'continente de la conciencia Negra'"] [Saint Domingue Kins in the Continent of Black Consciousness"], in ''Trenzando una Historia en Curso: Arte Contemporáneo Dominicano en el Contexto del Caribe'', Santiago De Los Treinta Caballeros: Centro León & JP Morgan, 2014, pp 181-238. {{es}}
 
* [https://issuu.com/centroleon/docs/libro_arte_contemporaneo_dominicano/93 "Arte desde Saint-Dominique: ecos diasporicos en el 'continente de la conciencia Negra'"] [Saint Domingue Kins in the Continent of Black Consciousness"], in ''Trenzando una Historia en Curso: Arte Contemporáneo Dominicano en el Contexto del Caribe'', Santiago De Los Treinta Caballeros: Centro León & JP Morgan, 2014, pp 181-238. {{es}}
* [https://artlabourarchives.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/ca_125_column.pdf "Decolonising the (''White'') Gaze, 1/4: Who Is Whipping? / Dekolonisierung des (''weißen'') Blicks, 1/4. Wer peitscht?"], trans. Wilfried Prantner, ''Camera Austria International'' 125, 2014, pp 65-66. Column. [https://camera-austria.at/zeitschrift/125-2014/] {{en}}/{{de}}
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* [https://artlabourarchives.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/ca_125_column.pdf "Decolonising the (''White'') Gaze, 1/4: Who Is Whipping? / Dekolonisierung des (''weißen'') Blicks, 1/4. Wer peitscht?"], trans. Wilfried Prantner, ''Camera Austria International'' 125, 2014, pp 65-66; [https://monoskop.org/images/9/91/BE.BOP_2014_Spiritual_Revolutions_and_The_Scramble_for_Africa.pdf#page=6 repr. in] ''BE.BOP 2014. Black Europe Body Politics. Spiritual Revolutions & The "Scramble for Africa"'', eds. Alanna Lockward and Jeannette Ehlers, Berlin: Kultursprünge im Ballhaus Naunynstraße, 2014, pp 9-10. Column. [https://camera-austria.at/zeitschrift/125-2014/] {{en}}/{{de}}
 
* [https://artlabourarchives.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/ca_126_column.pdf "Decolonising the (''White'') Gaze, 2/4: Gordon Parks’s Whip and the “Unintended Liberating Dimension” of Enslavement / Dekolonisierung des (''weißen'') Blicks, 2/4. Gordon Parks' Peitsche und die »ungewollt befreiende Dimension« der Versklavung"], trans. Wilfried Prantner, ''Camera Austria International'' 126, 2014, pp 65-66. Column. [https://camera-austria.at/zeitschrift/126-2014/] {{en}}/{{de}}
 
* [https://artlabourarchives.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/ca_126_column.pdf "Decolonising the (''White'') Gaze, 2/4: Gordon Parks’s Whip and the “Unintended Liberating Dimension” of Enslavement / Dekolonisierung des (''weißen'') Blicks, 2/4. Gordon Parks' Peitsche und die »ungewollt befreiende Dimension« der Versklavung"], trans. Wilfried Prantner, ''Camera Austria International'' 126, 2014, pp 65-66. Column. [https://camera-austria.at/zeitschrift/126-2014/] {{en}}/{{de}}
 
* [https://artlabourarchives.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/ca_127_column.pdf "Decolonising the (''White'') Gaze, 3/4: Healing Sara Bartman in the “Continent of Black Consciousness” / Dekolonisierung des (''weißen'') Blicks, 3/4. Die Heilung Sara Baartmans auf dem Kontinent schwarzen Bewusstseins"], trans. Wilfried Prantner, ''Camera Austria International'' 127, 2014, pp 65-66. Column. [https://camera-austria.at/zeitschrift/127-2014/] {{en}}/{{de}}
 
* [https://artlabourarchives.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/ca_127_column.pdf "Decolonising the (''White'') Gaze, 3/4: Healing Sara Bartman in the “Continent of Black Consciousness” / Dekolonisierung des (''weißen'') Blicks, 3/4. Die Heilung Sara Baartmans auf dem Kontinent schwarzen Bewusstseins"], trans. Wilfried Prantner, ''Camera Austria International'' 127, 2014, pp 65-66. Column. [https://camera-austria.at/zeitschrift/127-2014/] {{en}}/{{de}}
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** [[Media:Lockward Alanna 2017 Spiritual Revolutions Afropean Body Politics and the Secularity of the Arts.pdf|"Spiritual Revolutions: Afropean Body Politics and the “Secularity” of the Arts"]], in ''Regimes of Invisibility in Contemporary Art, Theory and Culture: Image, Racialization, History'', eds. Marina Gržinić, Aneta Stojnić, and Miško Šuvaković, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp 103-122. [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-55173-9_8] {{en}}
 
** [[Media:Lockward Alanna 2017 Spiritual Revolutions Afropean Body Politics and the Secularity of the Arts.pdf|"Spiritual Revolutions: Afropean Body Politics and the “Secularity” of the Arts"]], in ''Regimes of Invisibility in Contemporary Art, Theory and Culture: Image, Racialization, History'', eds. Marina Gržinić, Aneta Stojnić, and Miško Šuvaković, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp 103-122. [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-55173-9_8] {{en}}
 
* "Striving for Self-Education, Consciousness and Knowledge. A Dialogue with Jeannette Ehler", in ''Jeannette Ehlers: Say It Loud!'', eds. Lotte Løvholm and Ida Højgaard Thjømøe, Copenhagen: Nemo, 2016. [http://butik.forlagetnemo.dk/product/say-it-loud] {{en}}
 
* "Striving for Self-Education, Consciousness and Knowledge. A Dialogue with Jeannette Ehler", in ''Jeannette Ehlers: Say It Loud!'', eds. Lotte Løvholm and Ida Højgaard Thjømøe, Copenhagen: Nemo, 2016. [http://butik.forlagetnemo.dk/product/say-it-loud] {{en}}
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* [https://monoskop.org/images/6/6d/BE.BOP_2016_Call_and_Response.pdf#page=3 "Introduction"], in ''BE.BOP 2016. Black Europe Body Politics. Call & Response'', eds. Alanna Lockward and Walter Mignolo, Berlin: Art Labour Archives, 2016, pp 5-9. {{en}}
 
* "Recio, Raúl (1965- )", in ''Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography'', eds. Franklin W. Knight and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Oxford University Press, 2016. [http://www.oxfordreference.com/abstract/10.1093/acref/9780199935796.001.0001/acref-9780199935796-e-1746] {{en}}
 
* "Recio, Raúl (1965- )", in ''Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography'', eds. Franklin W. Knight and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Oxford University Press, 2016. [http://www.oxfordreference.com/abstract/10.1093/acref/9780199935796.001.0001/acref-9780199935796-e-1746] {{en}}
 
* "Oquet, Charo (1952- )", in ''Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography'', eds. Franklin W. Knight and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Oxford University Press, 2016. [http://www.oxfordreference.com/abstract/10.1093/acref/9780199935796.001.0001/acref-9780199935796-e-1549] {{en}}
 
* "Oquet, Charo (1952- )", in ''Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography'', eds. Franklin W. Knight and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Oxford University Press, 2016. [http://www.oxfordreference.com/abstract/10.1093/acref/9780199935796.001.0001/acref-9780199935796-e-1549] {{en}}
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* essay in Karen Miranda Rivadeneira, ''Other Stories / Historia Bravas'', London: Autograph, 2018. [https://shop.autograph-abp.co.uk/books/other-stories] {{en}}/{{es}}
 
* essay in Karen Miranda Rivadeneira, ''Other Stories / Historia Bravas'', London: Autograph, 2018. [https://shop.autograph-abp.co.uk/books/other-stories] {{en}}/{{es}}
 
* [[Media:Lockward Alanna 2018 Kaliman.pdf|"Kalimán"]], in ''Sin pasar por go: narrativa dominicana contemporánea'', ed. Rita Indiana, Ciudad de México: Elefanta, 2018. {{es}}
 
* [[Media:Lockward Alanna 2018 Kaliman.pdf|"Kalimán"]], in ''Sin pasar por go: narrativa dominicana contemporánea'', ed. Rita Indiana, Ciudad de México: Elefanta, 2018. {{es}}
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* [https://monoskop.org/images/b/b9/BE.BOP_2018_Coalitions_Facing_White_Innocence.pdf#page=8 "A Respectable Maroon"], in ''BE.BOP 2018. Black Europe Body Politics. Coalitions Facing White Innocence'', ed. Alanna Lockward, Berlin: Art Labour Archives, 2018, pp 14-30. An autobiographical essay. {{en}}
  
 
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Photo: Miguel Gomez, 2016. (Source)
Born March 23, 1961(1961-03-23)
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Died January 7, 2019(2019-01-07) (aged 57)
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Alanna Lockward (1961, Santo Domingo - 2019, Santo Domingo) was a journalist, ballet dancer, writer, filmmaker and contemporary art curator. She was the founding director of Art Labour Archives, a platform for theory, political activism and art (1996). Lockward had conceptualized and curated the trans-disciplinary meeting BE.BOP (Black Europe Body Politics; 2012–2018). Her interests included Caribbean marronage discursive and mystical legacies in time-based practices, critical race theory, decolonial aesthetics/aesthesis, Black feminism and womanist ethics.

Lockward received her PhD from Humboldt University Berlin for her thesis on the Black Theology of Liberation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), following degrees in Art in Context at the University of the Arts Berlin, and Communications Science at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, Mexico City (1979-1983). She was a Research Professor at the Center of Caribbean Studies, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) as well as a guest lecturer at the Decolonial Summer School Middelburg and Dutch Art Institute, the Netherlands; Malmö Art Academy, Sweden; University of the Arts, Humboldt University, and Transart Institute, Berlin.

Lockward was appointed Director of International Affairs at the Museo de Arte Moderno (Santo Domingo) (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).

In 2016 she premiered her documentary film, Allen Report. Retracing Transnational African Methodism (FONPROCINE 2013), later nominated for the La Silla Awards (2017). This was the first Dominican film invited to the prestigious 24th New York African Film Festival (2017).

Lockward published Apremio: apuntes sobre el pensamiento y la creación contemporánea desde el Caribe (Cendeac, 2006), a collection of essays, the short novel Marassá and the Nothigness (Partridge Africa, 2016) 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). Lockward edited BE.BOP 2012-2014. El cuerpo en el continente de la conciencia Negra (Ediciones del Signo, 2016), included in the series “El Desprendimiento” initiated and edited by Walter Mignolo from 2004. She was cultural editor of Listín Diario, research journalist for Rumbo magazine, a columnist for the Miami Herald and a columnist for Acento.

She was based in Berlin and Port-au-Prince, Dominican Republic. She previously lived in Mexico, Haiti, the United States, and Australia.

Film

  • Allen Report: Retracing Transnational African Methodism, 2016, 76 min. Documentary. [1] [2]

Publications

Books, journals, dissertations

Catalogues

Other curatorial projects without printed catalogue

Poetry

  • "Noticias de Clara", Vetas 3:23, Santo Domingo, Oct 1996. [22]

Essays, reviews

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Interviews

  • Caroline Trouillet, "Une afropéanité décoloniale, un regard caribéen", Africultures 99-100, 2014, pp 330-335. [47] (French)
  • more

Links