Alanna Lockward

Alanna Lockward is a Dominican-German writer, journalist, filmmaker and founding director of Art Labour Archives, an exceptional platform centered on theory, political activism and art. Lockward has conceptualized and curated the groundbreaking transdisciplinary meeting BE.BOP. BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS (2012-2018). Her interests are Caribbean marronage discursive and mystical legacies in time-based practices, critical race theory, decolonial aesthetics/aesthesis, Blak 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 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 is the editor of BE.BOP 2102-2014. El cuerpo en el continente de la conciencia Negra (Ediciones del Signo 2016). She is currently  research professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM).

Alanna Lockward is the curator of Be.Bop 2018.