From 2022 to 2025, Mockler was the first Artist-in-Residence at Concordia University’s Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance, as part of the UNESCO Chair in the Prevention of Radicalization and Violent Extremism, wherein she developed a number of dialogic mechanisms, including blind interviews with strangers; collective documentaries in which subjects become authors; organizational takeovers by youth; scores for hard listening²; guerrilla internships; public-forum performances; controversial consultations; and what she called «gate-opening» ceremonies.
Uncomfortable (and now just straight-up bored) with the art world’s tendency to speak only to itself, Mockler leverages her identity as an artist to work beyond galleries and museums.
In 2025, Mockler took on the role of Senior Advisor at McGill University’s Faculty of Education. Her mandate focuses on institutional transformation and culture.
Over the past decade, the artist has deliberately sidestepped the art scene to work directly with a wide range of people and organizations, including refugee-rights nonprofits; university researchers and administrations; ministries of education; city and provincial governments, including immigration offices; tenant groups and housing authorities; natural scientists; farmers and foresters; former imprisoned Irish republican volunteers¹; workers’ unions; schoolteachers; and police officers, as part of a municipal commission on profiling.