I Won't Do It Alone

As an artist and leader, her role in this project involved establishing a framework, guiding discussions, and coordinating participants to realize their projects. Following À l’image — Takeover, Dazibao invited Mockler to create a follow-up response that would address her experience and how socially engaged practices steer the development of the artists who undertake them. For I Won’t Do It Alone, Mockler implemented 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.