EMILIA-AMALIA AT MERCER UNION
SESSION: ERICA STOCKING
Sunday, 5 May 2019, 12–3 PM
Mercer Union, 1286 Bloor St West, Toronto, ON  M6H 1N9

Artist Erica Stocking hosts a participatory reading of her play, The Artist’s Studio is Her Bedroom—a choreographed statement on autobiographical art making towards a new grammar for living, working and being in the world—influenced by the methodology and writings of Gertrude Stein.

This event is part of EMILIA-AMALIA’s partnership with Mercer Union in response to the exhibition, Beatrice Gibson: Plural Dreams of Social Life. Through four public programs in the ongoing series SESSION, E-A invites artists and practitioners to consider Gibson’s propositions for collective authorship, feminist histories, and the maternal as an essential point of collision between the self and the external world.

To participate as a reader, inquire with Aamna Muzaffar: aamna@mercerunion.org.

Registration for the event opens 23 April, and is limited to 30 persons. This event is free and open to the public, but requires pre-registration through Mercer Union. Please RSVP to office@mercerunion.org or 416.536.1519

Erica Stocking is an artist working in sculpture, installation and performance, and is a founding member of the artist collective Norma (2001-2014). Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2009), the Contemporary Art Gallery (2010), and The Western Front (2013) in Vancouver. In 2015, Stocking presented a solo exhibition with Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver. She has produced numerous artworks for civic collections, including her most recent public art commission in Surrey, British Columbia entitled Blankets (2019). Her new work explores artistic practice as both formal structure and embodied movement in the world. The Artist’s Studio is Her Bedroom is Stocking’s first textual performance work.