Collaboration as Practice

IAS Visiting Fellow Dorine van Meel delivers a seminar on their practice, followed by a lunch.

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

IAS Visiting 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.

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