EMILIA-AMALIA AT MERCER UNION
SESSION: AMY WONG
Thursday, 23 May 2019, 7 PM
Mercer Union, 1286 Bloor St West, Toronto, ON  M6H 1N9

Artist Amy Wong hosts a performative lecture focusing on mother-work as interwoven with social, communal and activist work. Wong explores a range of inspirations and traditions: the popularity of mid-19th–century quilting bees, Cantonese traditions of postpartum nourishment and healing, and the artist’s own use of and thinking around breastmilk production as linked to cultural production.

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.

Registration for the event opens 7 May, and is limited to 20 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

Amy Wong completed her MFA at York University, Toronto and post-graduate studies at De Ateliers, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Recent projects include AAFG x Art Metropole at the Toronto Art Book Fair at Kem Xuân Hương Ice Cream Shop, Chinatown Centre, Toronto; Shared Conversations: A Dinner with ARCs across Canada, Modern Fuel, Kingston, Ontario; Institutional Critique Teach-In and Catalogue Cover, Gardiner Museum, Toronto. Forthcoming projects include Room for Taking Care at the OCAD University Graduate Gallery, Toronto; Alimentary at Obrera Centro, Mexico City. She is a 2019-2020 fellow of the Toronto Arts Council Cultural Leader’s Lab at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Alberta.