Collaboration as Practice

Image Credit - Phoenix’s Last Song (2019) video installation and performance at Nottingham Contemporary, photo: Sam Kirby

IAS Residential Fellow Dorine van Meel delivers a seminar on their practice -

This fellow's talk introduces the practice of Dorine van Meel, 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.

The talk focuses on the collaborative dimensions of her practice, and in particular on Parhankua: Fire, Community, and Ecological Justice, a project hosted by Radar at Loughborough University. 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 11:45 am for a 12:00 noon start. For those joining in-person, lunch will be served after the seminar from 1:00pm.

This event is hybrid format, please use the required booking button at the bottom of the page 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)

By booking a place at this event, attendees agree to behave in a respectful manner such that everyone feels comfortable contributing as they wish. The IAS reserves the right to eject anyone who does not abide by this policy.

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