Veronica Mockler is an artist specializing in participatory dialogue. Her work, which investigates processes of shared authority, has been commissioned in various settings, including curated art spaces, government offices, community organizations, and universities.
Her politically collaborative work explores the dialogic through forms such as video interviews among strangers from “opposing” backgrounds, collective documentaries in which subjects become authors, conference keynote takeovers by youth, scores for walking and hard listening, guerrilla internships, performative public forums, controversial consultations, democratic site visits, and workshop crusades within administrative strongholds.
Drawing from art history, oral history, documentary practice, and the working-class roots of popular education, Mockler's work seeks to redefine who and how we can participate in the institutions of art, citizenship, and knowledge.
Québec immigration and diversity state workers, tenant groups and city housing authorities, natural scientists in Europe, farmers and foresters in Japan, prisoners of war in the North of Ireland, teachers across Canada, and even Montreal police force are among those whom Mockler’s dialogic work has reached.
For over two years, Mockler has held an artist-in-residence position at the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance at Concordia University, as part of the UNESCO Chair in the Prevention of Radicalization and Violent Extremism. In this role, her arts-based research focuses on the challenges of institutional inclusion and class solidarity in the face of increasing global polarization.
For more information, such as a curriculum vitae, please contact the artist directly.
Portfolio
veronica.florence.mockler@gmail.com
Youth collaborators Kaymarie Sutherland, Hunnayna Hemed, and Kendra McDonald, with artist Veronica Mockler at the premiere of their participatory documentary essay titled “Stepping Into Halka” last June at Cinéma De Sève in Tiohtià:ke Montréal as part of the 2023 Summer Institute: Underground Arts as a Catalyst for Pluralism in an Era of Polarization. Supported by the Michaëlle Jean Foundation, Employment and Social Development - Government of Canada, Fonds de recherche du Québec Société et culture - Québec Research Council, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Recent / Upcoming Exhibitions
"I Won’t Do This Alone" in Dazibao Art Contemporain
Montréal Tiohtià:ke, Québec, Canada
2024-25
The Burning of Long Kesh
St Comgall’s Hall Belfast and the Felons Club
Extended preview of interviews with password: oralhistory
Belfast, Ireland
2024
Dark Diplomacy in Museo de Arte Zapopan
Guadalajara, México
2024
Dark Diplomacy in Centro de Cultura Digital
CDMX, México
2024
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Montréal Tiohtià:ke, Québec, Canada
2024
The Extended Environmental Record
Glenkeen Garden, Crespo Foundation, Ireland
2023
MAI - Montréal Arts Interculturels
Montréal Tiohtià:ke, Québec, Canada
2023
The Extended Environmental Record in Tokyo Biennale
Tokyo, Japan
2023
The Extended Environmental Record in Mind Trail Okuyamato
Tokyo, Japan
2023
Spreepark Art Space
with Amanda Gutierrez and Marcus Maeder
Berlin, Germany
2023
À L’IMAGE: Takeover in Dazibao Art Contemporain
Montréal Tiohtià:ke, Québec, Canada
2022-24
Recent Links
"This Montreal artist bridges divides through collaborative art”, Guest Artist on CBC The Bridge - Aired: Nov. 9, 2024
L'enquête artistique participative de l'artiste Veronica Mockler est présentée en première à Montréal
Meet Concordia Fine Arts alumna Veronica Mockler
"I Won’t Do This Alone", solo exhibition in Dazibao Art Contemporain
Concordia University’s CSLP announce Veronica Mockler as Artist-In-Residence
Concordia multimedia arts collective BANAL to debut interdisciplinary performance at the MAI
BANAL art collective
Mockler co-authors series of local dialogues around climate change measurement in Japanese Nara Prefecture Forest
The Extended Environmental Record blends sonic data, art and collective listening to hear out the intricacies of ecosystems
Concordia artist collaborates with Black youth at Dazibao gallery: Veronica Mockler is working with 7 young women on a participatory art series
Through the lens of participatory art practice, Veronica Mockler's three-screen video installation challenges...
Mockler, Veronica “Home Rule”, Cigale Journal, no. 3 “Sovereignties”, 2022, pp. 84–91
Innovative Social Pedagogy: Project Someone’s Veronica Mockler travels to Québec city to explore her dialogic art and the problem of speaking for others with Cégep students.
Landscape of Hate Releases Video from Artists’ Residency in 4th Space
Acts of Listening Lab presents I Can't Stand The Idea Of Putting Words In Someone Else's Mouth: a curated discussion by Veronica Mockler with Jacob Wren, Luis Carlos Sotelo Castro, nènè myriam konaté, and Rajni Shah
The Address: a reflection one year after
PERSON IN COMMON: the artwork resulting from the collaborative research-creation process of artist and …
Recent Teaching
Guest Lecture: Introduction to Community Art Education - Bachelor level
Lead José Cortés, Concordia University, Winter 2024
Guest Lecture: Advanced Art Education in the Secondary School - Bachelor level
Lead Jessie Beier, Concordia University, Winter 2024
Guest Lecture: Communication Analysis of Environment - Bachelor level
Lead Angus Tarnawsky, Concordia University, Fall 2023
Guest Lecture: Advanced Critical Analysis in Art Education - Master/PhD level
Lead Vivek Venkatesh, Concordia University, Spring, 2023
Visiting Artist: Department of Arts, Languages, and Communication, Cégep Limoilou, Québec, QC, Canada, 2022
Creative Approaches to Listening and Interviewing - Bachelor level
Lead Luis Sotelo Castro, Concordia University, Summer, 2021 (Teaching Assistantship)
Oral History Performance - Bachelor level
Lead Luis Sotelo Castro, Concordia University, Winter, 2021 (Teaching Assistantship)
Recent Panels/Workshops
A-Positioning Project Screening + Discussion
Concordia Art Education Graduate Studio
with Jessie Beier and José Cortés
Montreal, QC, Canada — September, 2024
Canadian Union of Postal Workers - Union Education Program - Facilitator Symposium — Artist talk and workshop (bilingual)
Ottawa, ON, Canada
Sept 13, 14, 15, 2024
Canadian Society for Education through Art in collaboration with Jessie Beier and José Cortés
Halifax, Nova Scotia
2024
Special Talk Tokyo Biennale 2023 — Featuring: The Extended Environmental Record and Rikujin Niimi. Moderated by Hidenori Kondo, Ireland/Tokyo, October, 2023 — September, 2023.
Berlin: 3-day workshop at Spreepark Art Space, situated within the confines of former East Berlin's Planterwald Kulturepark. Co-authored by Amanda Gutierrez, Marcus Maeder, and Veronica Mockler, Berlin, Germany — August 2023.
Summer Institute "Underground Arts as Catalysts for Pluralism in the Age of Polarization" Montreal, QC, Canada — June, 2023.
ACFAS: Chaire de recherche en économie créative et mieux-être, Université de Montréal/HEC, Montreal, QC, Canada — May, 2023.
Indigenous Methodologies and Non-Indigenous Researchers, Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance, Montreal, QC, Canada — April 2023.
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