I Won’t Do It Alone, 2024-2025.

© Veronica Mockler. Installation view of the exhibition I Won’t Do It Alone, Dazibao, 2024. Photo: Matthieu Brouillard.

For I Won’t Do It Alone, the artist implements a durational structure wherein every hour from 9 to 5, for 5 days, she speaks to the camera for two and a half minutes in what she calls “briefings”. Unscripted and unedited, each briefing was then sent to different participants from past projects, inviting them to respond in a video of their own. The accumulated videos meander through personal, artistic, and social issues including precarity, privilege, authenticity, worth, ethics, form, and many more. Over the course of the diligently executed task, the moniker “briefing” is switched out for “confession,” “testimony,” “address,” and “experiment.” The open-endedness of dialogue as a form, when applied to the artist and her participants in novel solitude, collapses into a kind of void as they stumble into a labyrinth of ideas — or perhaps more accurately, a labyrinth of thinking. They try to identify the strands of meaning that underwrite life and art at large, at times constructing false oppositions and at others finding truth in utter simplicity.

— France Choinière, Curator, Dazibao Contemporary Art

The artist would like to thank the participants: SafiaB, Sa’naa T’Yanna Bishop-Méus, Serena Beaulieu, Tahar Behlouli, Ahmed Benkhalifa, Line Bonneau, Kevin Callahan, Anna Maria Camino, Paul Anthony Clarke, Lucille Garant, Charles-Antoine Gosselin, Amanda Gutierrez, Banafsheh Hassani, Hunnayna Hemed, Susana Hennesey Lavery, Dorothy Hunter, Eugénie Jobin, Leslie Kapo, Modibo Keita, Gabriel Lajournade, Kendra McDonald, Robin Price, Richard Quirion, Florencia Sosa Rey, Troy Tailfeathers, Andrew Woods.