Alanna Lockward | |
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| Born | 23 March 1961 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
| Died | 7 January 2019 (aged 57) Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
| Education | Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, Mexico City Berlin University of the Arts |
| Known for | author, curator, and filmmaker |
| Movement | Decolonial aesthetics |
| Website | alannalockward |
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.
Lockward was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on 23 March 1961. She came 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-Xochimilco, Mexico City. She completed her postgraduate Master's Degree in Art at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. Her thesis was a review of articles from the renowned German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. Her focus here was on the linguistic construction of Black identities ("Counter-reflection of a word field on the daily mirror"). Lockward was appointed Director of International Affairs at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Santo Domingo in 1988 and served on several occasions as selection and award jury in national as well as international biennials.
Allen Report, Retracing Transnational African Methodism. received the production prize FONPROCINE 2013.
She died on 7 January 2019 in Santo Domingo.
