BE.BOP 2016. BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS. CALL & RESPONSE

An extensive and varied 3-day programme with eight panel discussions, accompanied by exciting commissioned performances, films and site-specific installations will take place. The fourth edition of BE.BOP, a production of Art Labour Archives, brings together this year artistic practices and scientific contributions under the thematic framework of CALL & RESPONSE. The designation CALL & RESPONSE describes the antiphony effect, characteristic to African musical legacies in which the audience responds to a leading voice at systematic intervals. BE.BOP also operates as a safe space, a quintessential maroon category, and as such has become an utterly rewarding collective experience. BE.BOP brings into focus once again, a historical perspective on the racialized inequalities during the periods of imperial expansion and colonization. Access to social and physical mobility was firmly organized, similar to the Apartheid in South Africa. Mobility – who is mobile and how, who is permitted to go where, and who is considered a migrant, 'expat' or 'tourist' etc. - is still founded on a structural coloniality that is evident in citizenship statuses of various migration regimes. The event fosters a discussion of the possibilities to overcome currently enduring colonial inequalities and "uneven mobilities" (Mimi Sheller), as well as new forms of conviviality in the societies of our globalized world. In view of the current crisis of European societies, this is an evident and pressing issue. PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS + GUESTS BE.BOP 2016 presents in this context for the first time the video-art “Napulis Tree” by Yoel Diaz Vazquez, which shows the symbolic tree at the Oranienplatz in Berlin to which the refugee and activist Napuli Langa climbed in April 2014, remaining for four days without food and drink and setting an impressive precedent against the racist asylum politics in Germany. BE.BOP 2016 introduces international guests, artists, activists and scholars: Sandra Abd’Allah-Alvarez Ramírez + Laura Alegre + Dalida María Benfield + Gurminder K. Bhambra + Manuela Boatca + Erna Brodber + Lesley–Ann Brown + Artwell Cain + Kjell Caminha + Augustus Casely-Hayford + Mathias Danbolt + Teresa María Díaz Nerio + Yoel Díaz Vázquez + Frank Dragtenstein + Rebecca Drammeh + Simmi Dullay + Jeannette Ehlers + Fatima El Tayeb + Quinsy Gario + Cristel Gbaguidi + Pedro Pablo Gómez + Gillion Grantsaan + Adler Guerrier + Ylva Habel + Sasha Huber + Malcolm Momodou Jallow + Jane Jin Kaisen + Patricia Kaersenhout + Nazila Kivi + Krudas Cubensi + Napuli Langa + Mette Moestrup + Mwangi Hutter + Patrice Naimbana + Tone O. Nielsen + Tanja Ostojic + Zulma Palermo + Malena Pestellini + Anne Ring Petersen + Tuleka Prah + Rod Sachs + Moritz Schramm + Robbie Shilliam + Helle Stenum + Javier Tapia + Ovidiu Tichindeleanu + Rolando Vázquez. In English with simultaneous translation into German and Spanish. Festival Ticket 25 € / 15 € Reduced Day Ticket: 10 € / 6 € Reduced Single Event: 6 € / 4 € Reduced . BERLIN PROGRAM A project of Art Labour Archives for Volksbühne Curated by Alanna Lockward In cooperation with Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and AfricAvenir June 1-3 Berlin Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz www.volksbuehne-berlin.de.Wednesday June 1 10:00-10:30 Roter Salon Introduction 10:30-11:30 Presentation of Ediciones del Signo's volume: BE.BOP 2012-2014: El Cuerpo en el Continente de la Conciencia Negra (The Body in the Continent of Black Consciousness). Edited by Alanna Lockward for the collection “El Desprendimiento” (De-linking), directed by Walter Mignolo. Translated by Laura Alegre and revised by Teresa María Díaz Nerio. With contributions by: Manuela Boatca, Erna Brodber, Lesley-Ann Brown, Artwell Cain, Teresa María Díaz Nerio, Yoel Díaz Vázquez, Simmi Dullay, Jeannette Ehlers, Fatima El Tayeb, Patricia Kaersenhout, Walter Mignolo, Quinsy Gario, Julia Roth, Robbie Shilliam and Rolando Vázquez. Laura Alegre + Alanna Lockward + Walter Mignolo + Artwell Cain + Teresa María Díaz Nerio + Julia Roth Moderated by Rolando Vázquez 11:30-13:30 Roter Salon Screening of Orí by Raquel Gerber. Berlin Premiere Moderated by Artwell Cain 13:30-14:30 BREAK 14:30-15:30 Park Parade by Jeannette Ehlers SESSION I: MARRONAGE AND BORDER THINKING 15:30 -17:15 Roter Salon Walter Mignolo + Robbie Shilliam + Augustus Casely-Hayford + Jeannette Ehlers Moderated by Quinsy Gario 17:15-17:45 BREAK 17:45-19:00 Roter Salon SESSION II: MARRONAGE, (DE)COLONIALITY AND INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION Roter Salon Pedro Pablo Gómez + Rolando Vázquez + Simmi Dullay + Rod Sachs Moderated by Ovidiu Tichindeleanu 19:00 - 19:30 Screening My African Food Map by Tuleka Prah 20:00-22:00 3 Floor Teresa María Díaz Nerio. Areíto Indestructible, Performance, Weltpremiere Q & A Moderated by Alanna Lockward . Thursday June 2SESSION III: CONTEMPORARY MARRONAGE AND COLLECTIVE HEALING 11:00-13:00, Roter Salon Screening Napuli's Tree. By Yoel Díaz Vázquez, World Premiere Yoel Díaz Vázquez + Cristel Gbaguidi + Napuli Langa + Tanja Ostojić + Julia Roth Moderated by Robbie Shilliam 13:00-14:00 Quinsy Gario, Black, Basically a Genealogical Materialist Analysis, Performance, World Premiere. 14:00-15:00 BREAK SESSION IV: ENSLAVEMENT, GENOCIDE AND THE COLONIALITY OF MEMORY 15:00-17:00 Roter Salon Manuela Boatcă + Artwell Cain + Ovidiu Tichindeleanu + Patrice Naiambana Moderated by Walter Mignolo 17:00-17:15 BREAK 17:15-19:00 Roter Salon Dalida María Benfield + Jeannette Ehlers + Teresa María Díaz Nerio Moderated by Alanna Lockward 19:00-20:00 BREAK 20:00-22:00, 3 Floor Patrice Naiambana, Perception Gap, solo-digital performance. German premiere. .Friday June 3SESSION V: SPIRITUAL LIBERATIONS AND PANAFRICANISM 11:00-13:00 Roter Salon Screening of Allen Report. Retracing Transnational African Methodism (2016) by Alanna Lockward World premiere Moderated by Julia Roth 13:00-13:30 BREAK SESSION VI: FREE WOMEN OF COLOR IN EUROPE AND ABYA YALA 13:30-15:00 Roter Salon Frank Dragtenstein + Sandra Abd’Allah-Alvarez Ramírez + Krudas Cubensi + Patricia Kaersenhout Moderated by Teresa María Díaz Nerio SESSION VII: THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION AS UNIVERSAL MAROON LEGACY 15:00-16:30 Roter Salon Adler Guerrier + Alanna Lockward + Quinsy Gario Moderated by Walter Mignolo 16:30-16:45 BREAK SESSION VIII: (DE)COLONIALITY AND SCANDINAVIAN EXCEPTIONALISM 16:45-18:00 Roter Salon Lesley-Anne Brown + Mette Moestrup + Nazila Kivi + Sasha Huber Moderated by Simmi Dullay 20:00 – 22:00 3 FLOOR Patricia Kaersenhout. A History of Grief, performance. World Premiere Q & A with Patricia Kaersenhout Moderated by Dalida María Benfield . . As in its previous edition, BE.BOP 2016 will once again take place in Copenhagen (June 5-7) in cooperation with the Trampoline House, a grass-root organization that supports asylum seekers, and the University of Copenhagen.