Art Labour Archives

Art Labour Archives is a Berlin-based agency active in the international cultural industry since 1996. From an interdisciplinary platform and with the advantages of an extensive global network, Art Labour Archives provides consultancy to international biennials and festivals, creates situation-specific art events and organizes high-impact theoretical meetings, among other services. Its last production (May 4-6), BE.BOP 2012. BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS was presented at Ballahaus Naunynstrasse in collaboration with the Allianz Cultural Foundation.
Art Labour Archives is an exceptional platform that has spiraled around the amalgamation of theory, political activism and aesthetics. In the vision of its founder, Alanna Lockward, disciplines are meant to facilitate each other´s dismantling by means of constantly challenging its own claims to legitimacy. This self-criticism and paradigm inversion places collective knowledge production as a central ambition. In this sense, the optic and praxis of Art Labour Archives is to surpass the expectations of the society of the spectacle and its insatiable appetite for visual and sensorial stimulation. Instead, the dozens of publications, exhibitions, screening programs, workshops and seminars conceptualized and produced by Art Labour Archives in the last seventeen years, have offered liberation and redemption as a viable alternative. In short: our journey is one of experiencing “art” as a labour of love and mutual examination and recognition beyond geographical, discursive and disciplinary thresholds.
COOPERATIONS
AFRICA
AfricAvenir, Windhoek / Berlin
Goethe Institute, Togo
Kwazulu-Natal Society for the Arts, Durban
National Art Gallery of Namibia, Windhoek
The Bioscope, Johannesburg
CARIBBEAN
Arte por Excelencias, La Habana
Bienal de La Habana
Bienal del Caribe, Santo Domingo
Bienal Nacional de Artes Visuales, Santo Domingo
Caribbean InTransit, Washington D.C.
Centro Cultural de la Embajada de España en Santo Domingo
Centro León, Santiago de los Treinta Caballeros
Festival Internacional de Teatro, Santo Domingo
Galerie Bourbon-Lally, Port-au-Prince
Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo
Small Axe, Kingston
CENTRAL AMERICA / MEXICO
Bienal del Istmo Centroamericano, San Salvador
Centro Cultural de España en San Salvador
Compañía de Danza Experimental Lola Lince, Guanajuato
Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City
EUROPE
Allianz Kulturstiftung, Berlin
ARCO, Madrid
Atlántica, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin
Baltic Art Centre
Casa de América, Madrid
Casa América Catalunya, Barcelona
CENDEAC, Murcia
Danish Arts Council, Copenhagen
Documenta 13, Kassel
Dutch Art Institute
Framer Framed, Amsterdam
Galería Isabel Hurley, Málaga
Goldsmiths University of London
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Humboldt University, Berlin
Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Berlin
Ifa Galerie, Bonn / Sttugart
Junta de Andalucía, Seville
Matadero Madrid
NGBK, Berlin
Transart Institute, Berlin
University of Warwick
USA
Art Basel Miami Beach
Art Center South Florida, Miami
Duke University, North Carolina
Florida International University, Miami
Franklin Furnace, New York
Harlem Biennale, New York
Hemispheric Institute, New York
Museo del Barrio, New York
Art Labour Archives