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Preview at ARCO / IMAGERY AFFAIR : BE.BOP 2012. BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS / Teresa María Díaz Nerio (DAI, 2009), Jeannette Ehlers, William Kentridge, Emeka Udemba a.o.

Teresa María Díaz Nerio: Hommage à Sara Bartman, performance 40’, video 5’, 2007
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IMAGERY AFFAIR :: BE.BOP 2012. BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS 
Preview selection of audiovisual works reflecting on decolonial issues.
Saturday February 18th: 20hs: Sala B, Cineteca Matadero 
Curated byAlanna Lockward, with the advice of Walter Mignolo, this is a project developed by ArtLabour Archives and VideoArtWorld, in collaboration with Allianz Kulturstiftung andBallhaus Naunynstrasse, with the support of Digits Without Borders, Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University,Savvy Contemporary and Transnational Decolonial Institute.

For its preview during ARCO Fair in Madrid, BE.BOP 2012 will screen a selection of participating artists.
 
Preview selection: 
Teresa María Díaz Nerio: Hommage à Sara Bartman, performance 40’, video 5’, 2007
Jeannette Ehlers: Black Magic At The White House, 3' 46'', 2009 
William Kentridge: Black Box/Chambre Noire, 22', 2005 
IngridMwangiRobertHutter: Cutting the mask, 9:05’, 2003
Emeka Udemba: Dancing with the Star, 11' 48'', 2011 
 
 
(Teresa María Díaz Nerio is an alumna of the DAI)
 
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 will take place atBallhaus 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.
The framework of this meeting is 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 have been selected 
because they contest (racializing) fantasies on European citizenship. 
By means of analyzing these narratives of re-existence, BE.BOP 2012 aims 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. The idea is to 
create multiple dialogues across the fields of history, legal studies, 
theatre, art and political  activism.
This meeting is motivated and theoretically embedded to Decolonial Aesthetics and more specifically toDecolonial Diasporic Aesthetics, a term coined by curator,Alanna Lockward. 
 
Full program includes: 
Ndèye Andújar (Spain) / Artwell Cain (The Netherlands) Teresa María Díaz Nerio (The Netherlands) / Simmi Dullay (South Africa) / Jeannette Ehlers (Denmark) /Fatima El Tayeb (Germany) / Ylva Habel (Sweden) / Grada Kilomba (Germany) / William Kentridge (South Africa) / Michael Küppers-Adebisi (Germany) / Rozena Maart (South Africa) / Walter Mignolo (United States) / IngridMwangiRobertHutter (Germany) / Minna Salami (England) / Dierk Schmidt (The Netherlands) / Robbie Shilliam (England) / Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (Germany) / Emeka Udemba (Germany) Rolando Vázquez (The Netherlands) / Quinsy Gario (The Netherlands) / Philipp Khabo Köpsel (Germany) / Ulrike Hamann (Germany)