Artist talk: Collaboration as Practice

About this event

Artist Dorine van Meel has been commissioned by our contemporary art programme Radar as part of a programme of work titled Rehearsals (for a world we could live in). She is also a IAS Residential Fellow for 2025-26 with the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at Loughborough University. IAS has invited Dorine to deliver a public seminar on her arts practice.

Dorine van Meel is a moving-image artist working across single-channel video, installation, performance, and publishing, with collaboration as a central mode of research. Van Meel approaches artistic practice as a way of thinking through socio-political questions through the poetic gesture of the moving image, (collective) engagement with theoretical texts, and sustained collaborations with artists, activists, academics, and communities, whose voices often become part of the work.

This talk will focus on the collaborative dimensions of her practice, and in particular on Parhankua: Fire, Community, and Ecological Justice, a project hosted by Radar. Drawing on the Purépecha concept of the parhankua—stones that support the fire and symbolize community—the project brings together Indigenous and Afro-descendant perspectives. Central to the project is a process of collective scriptwriting that opens a shared space to reflect on ecological justice, care, solidarity, and repair.

Arrivals from 11.45am for a 12pm noon start. For those joining in-person, lunch will be served after the seminar from 1pm.

Accessibility  

There is step-free access into International House, which is a single storey building.  There is an accessible toilet just off the entrance foyer.

If you have any specific access requirements, then please email LUArts@lboro.ac.uk and we will do our best to accommodate them.  

Parking

There is very limited parking outside International House. The closest car park is opposite Pilkington Library, which is approx. 5 mins walk away.

Please note that visitors are required to register their vehicle and pay to park on campus. There are various ways in which you can register and pay (both in advance and on arrival).

More information on visitor parking

Booking details

This event is hybrid format, please use the required booking button at the bottom of the IAS web page (accessed via the Book now button) to choose either in-person or online attendance.

Please note that in-person spaces are limited and booking is required, so we can manage numbers for catering and also the space in the seminar room.

IAS seminars are typically recorded, minus any Q&A sessions at the end, to encourage contributions. The recordings are then uploaded to their website on a Fellows bio page and/or Programme page, along with their IAS YouTube Channel. If you are not able to attend the seminar live, please do still register as IAS will email everyone who registered to let them know once the recordings are made available.