Alanna Lockward

Alanna Lockward
Born(1961-03-23)23 March 1961
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Died7 January 2019(2019-01-07) (aged 57)
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
EducationUniversidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, Mexico City
Berlin University of the Arts
Known forauthor, curator, and filmmaker
MovementDecolonial aesthetics
Websitealannalockward.wordpress.com

Alanna Lockward (23 March 1961 – 7 January 2019) was an author, curator and filmmaker based in Berlin and 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, particularly through an Afropean lens, along with Teresa María Díaz Nerio, Jeannette Ehlers, Quinsy Gario, and Patricia Kaersenhout.[1][2]

  1. ^ Lockward, Alanna (2 July 2019), Robinson, Hilary; Buszek, Maria Elena (eds.), "Call and Response: Conversations with Three Women Artists on Afropean Decoloniality", A Companion to Feminist Art (1 ed.), Wiley, pp. 419–435, doi:10.1002/9781118929179.ch24, ISBN 978-1-118-92915-5, S2CID 203053113, retrieved 12 January 2023
  2. ^ Lockward, Alanna (2017), Gržinić, Marina; Stojnić, Aneta; Šuvaković, Miško (eds.), "Spiritual Revolutions: Afropean Body Politics and the "Secularity" of the Arts", Regimes of Invisibility in Contemporary Art, Theory and Culture: Image, Racialization, History, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 103–122, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-55173-9_8, ISBN 978-3-319-55173-9, retrieved 12 January 2023