© Veronica Mockler
Veronica Mockler
I Won’t Do It Alone
From November 14, 2024 to January 18, 2025
Opening on November 14
Drawing on oral storytelling, documentary practice and popular pedagogy, Veronica Mockler's work treats the experience of speaking and listening to others as an art form. From this position, over the past two years, Mockler has led an outreach project for Dazibao entitled À l’image — Takeover, which aimed to give a cohort of young women a platform to respond collectively to the gallery’s exhibitions through the artistic medium of their choice. Continuing her research, Mockler proposes a new video work that will reflect on the ethical and aesthetic implications of such projects, how authorship is blurred, or how art and politics are confused. Deliberately self-referential, she will be turning the camera on herself to question, how her comfort level functions within a socially engaged or participatory art practice.
Dazibao thanks the artist for her generous collaboration as well as its advisory committee for their support.
Dazibao receives financial support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, the ministère de la Culture et des Communications and the Ville de Montréal.
Dazibao acknowledges that it is located on the unceded territory of the Kanien'kehá: ka Nation and that Tiohtiá:ke / Montreal is historically known as a gathering place for many First Nations, and today, is home to a diverse population of Indigenous as well as other peoples. Guided by ethics of respect, listening, and awareness, Dazibao commits to a continued reflection regarding the deep-rooted and systemic challenges tied to accessibility and inclusivity in the arts and beyond, and endeavors to apply such reflections to all aspects of its activities and governance.