Video Documentation of The Pleasure Report by New Mineral Collective

Medium: Video Documentation

The Pleasure Report (2025) at Mercer Union was New Mineral Collective (NMC)’s first institutional solo exhibition in North America. It culminated over five years of the artists’ research engaging with mineral prospecting processes in the province of Ontario. Through a sculptural and sound installation, the exhibition advanced NMC’s subversive strategy of reappropriating mining industry practices and contemplated the concept of a “corporate toolbox”: a series of speculative instruments as tools for reparation, rather than profiteering and destruction. 

New Mineral Collective: The Pleasure Report is commissioned by Mercer Union, a centre for contemporary art, Toronto.

Watch this video documentation to hear the artists talk about the exhibition.