Beks

As a result, she knows how to clear space for other perspectives. She works as a filmmaker, writer and healer. Beks, who has African, Flemish and Native American roots, was born and raised in Flanders but has lived in Amsterdam since 1993. She started her education at the drama and cabaret school Studio Herman Teirlinck in Antwerp and then moved to Amsterdam, where she completed her studies at the Theatre School Selma Susanna. In the first years of her career, she worked as a spoken-word performer and theatre maker. In the first years of her career, she worked as a spoken-word performer/theatre maker. In 2002, she won the Hollandse Nieuwe Toneelschrijfprijs. Her interdisciplinarity is reflected in her films such as the 2Doc documentary Eigen Volk (2011) about the far-right voices in her foster family and relatives, her documentary Mookie (2012) with which she won Best Documentary awards in Italy and Mexico and Beyond My Walls (2015) about social media. She also filmed several artist portraits on Maria Barnas and Jeroen Henneman.

In 2018, she founded Alphabet Street the Tank, a guild and think tank for Black and BIPOC visual language artists. In 2003, Beks founded Writing Workshop Frascati and in 2014 she debuted with the novel The Kleenex Chronicles. Beks went on to write the children's book Sala and Monk - Us Together (2020), the essay collection Echo (2021) on the intersection of womanhood and being Black, and The Little Morrison, a signpost in Toni Morrison's oeuvre that will be published in autumn 2024 in a translation in Castilian Spanish.

In season 2022-2023, Beks was the seasonal thinker for Concertgebouw Brugge, where she deepened her transdisciplinary work at the intersection between art and healing with the design of rituals for women. She is currently working on several transdisciplinary projects in the Netherlands and Spain, including the installation She lives in my Belly Button, several poems and Vogelvrij/Pajaro and Peligro, a multilingual essay.