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

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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

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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

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Thursday June 2
SESSION 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.

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Friday June 3
SESSION 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

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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.