Veronica Mockler is an artist of participatory dialogue. Investigating processes of shared authority, her work has unfolded within diverse settings in Canada and abroad, spanning curated art spaces, government offices, community organizations, and universities.
Politically collaborative, her dialogic interventions have taken on various shapes, including shared keynotes, listening scores, group internships, unlikely interviews, documentary essays, forums, takeovers, consultations, video installations, performances, site visits, workshops, and gatherings.
Drawing from oral history discipline, documentary practice tropes, 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.
Mockler works on the un-ceded land of the Kanien'kehá:ka Nation, known as Tiohtià:ke/Montréal at Concordia University with Project Someone at the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance, and as part of the UNESCO Chair in the Prevention of Radicalization and Violent Extremism.
In this capacity, her dialogic and arts-based research focuses on the challenge of institutional inclusion and class solidarity, namely amid ecological crisis polarization.
For more information, such as a complete portfolio, curriculum vitae, and press kit, please contact the artist directly.
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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 Teaching
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
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.
Distributors
Videographe
Groupe Intervention Vidéo
Recent Work
Centre des arts actuels Skol
Montréal Tiohtià:ke, Québec, Canada
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
À L’IMAGE: Takeover in Dazibao Art Contemporain
Montréal Tiohtià:ke, Québec, Canada
2022-24
Recent Links
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 - HOME
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
The Extended Environmental Record - HOME
Concordia artist collaborates with Black youth at Dazibao gallery: Veronica Mockler is working with 7 young women on a participatory art series
Artist-in-Residence, Project Someone (UNESCO-PREV Chair), CLSP Concordia University
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 …
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