Black Europe Body Politics BE.BOP 2012 BE.BOP 2012 BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS Transdisciplinary Roundtable & Screening African Diaspora Aesthetics comUNITYpromo Ballhaus Naunistrasse AFROTAK TV cyberNomads Afrika Germany Berlin presents
June 23, 2012
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Black Europe Body Politics BE.BOP 2012 BE.BOP 2012 BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS Transdisciplinary Roundtable & Screening African Diaspora Aesthetics comUNITYpromo Ballhaus Naunistrasse AFROTAK TV cyberNomads Afrika Germany Berlin presents
BE.BOP 2012. BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS · BE.Bop 2012 is an international transdisciplinary roundtable and screening program in which the (racialized) fantasies of European citizenship are contested.
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Alanna Lockward, Curator – Walter Mignolo, Advisor
BE.BOP 2012- BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS is an international screening program and transdisciplinary roundtable centered on Black European citizenship in connection to recent moving image and performative practices.
It took place at The Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, a translocal theatre space which serves as point of arrival for artists from (post) migrant communities and beyond, founded in 2008 by Shermin Langhoff with the support of Fatih Akin.
José Manuel Barreto(England) / Manuela Boatca (Germany) / Artwell Cain (Holland) / Teresa María Díaz Nerio(Holland) / Gabriele Dietze (Germany) / Simmi Dullay (South Africa) / Elvira Dyangani Ossé(Spain) /Jeannette Ehlers (Denmark) / Fatima El Tayeb (Germany) / Heide Fehrenbach (USA) / Quinsy Gario(Holland )/ Ylva Habel (Sweden) / Ulrike Hamann(Germany) /Grada Kilomba (Germany) / William Kentridge(South Africa) / Michael Küppers-Adebisi (Germany) / Rozena Maart (South Africa) / Tracey Moffatt (Australia) / IngridMwangiRobertHutter (Germany) / David Olusoga(England) / Minna Salami (England) /Robbie Shilliam (England) / Sumugan Sivanesan (Australia) / Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (Germany) / Robert A. Stemmle†/ Emeka Udemba (Germany) Rolando Vázquez (Holland)
The framework of this meeting was circumscribed within decolonial theories which expose how the idea of citizenship is linked to current racializing configurations and hence with the limits of humanity. In that sense, the racial hierarchy of human existence, originating in the Renaissance and prescribed legally during the Enlightenment, established current (white-male-heteronormative-Christian-Western) European notions of who is Human and who is lower in that hierarchy, thereby designating citizenship, one of the most important legacies of modernity. The time-based positions discussed at this meeting were selected because they contest (racializing) fantasies on European citizenship.
By means of analyzing these narratives of re-existence, BE.BOP 2012aimed at facilitating a long-term exchange between specialists in disciplines unrelated to visual arts and time-based art practitioners of different contexts of the Black European Diaspora. It successfully created multiple dialogues across the fields of history, legal studies, theatre, art and political activism.
This meeting was motivated and theoretically embedded to Decolonial Aesthetics and more specifically to Decolonial Diasporic Aesthetics, a term coined by curator, Alanna Lockward. In the spirit of the transformative and liberating qualities of performance art, this event was free and open to the public.
May 4-6, 2012
From 10:00 – 18:00
Free and open to the public
Ballhaus Naunynstrasse
Naunynstr. 27 / 10997 Berlin / + 49 (0) 30 75453725
presse@ballhausnaunynstrasse.de
http://alannalockward.wordpress.com/artlabour/
http://www.allianz-kulturstiftung.de/en/index.html
http://www.ballhausnaunynstrasse.de/NEWS.11+M5d637b1e38d.0.html Partners: Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University / DEFA Film Library / Digits Without Borders / Imagery Affairs / Goethe Institut / Goldsmiths University of London / Kwa-Zulu Natal Society of Arts / National Art Gallery of Namibia / Savvy Journal / Transational Decolonial Institute / The Bioscope Independent Cinema. Johannesburg / VideoArtWorld
Media Partners: AfricAvenir / AFROTAK TV cyberNomads / Exberliner / reboot.fm / Osvaldobudet.com
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