Opening Reception: Wednesday May 7, 7 pm - 9 pm, Free

Exhibit Runs from: May 2 - June 8, Free

Gallery Hours: Thursday - Saturday, 1 pm - 7 pm

Whippersnapper Gallery, 594b Dundas Street West

Historian Eric Hobsbawm writes that, Next to sex, the activity combining bodily experience and intense emotion to the highest degree is the participation in a mass demonstration. Coco Guzmans immersive installation The Demonstration explores the interpersonal dynamics of the crowd and the intense emotional narratives generated when a large group of people comes together for a common purpose. The audience is invited to wander within the scene of this grotesque demonstration/parade composed by human-size papier-mch figures and on-site drawings and to reflect on the place that protest/celebration and gathering takes in our neoliberal societies.

Co-presented by Whippersnapper Gallery.

Co-sponsored by The Public, Opirg York, CUPE 1281.

This event is part of the 29th annual Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts, taking place from May 1 - 15, 2014 at various GTA locations. For more details on this year's program, artists, and festival partners, please visit http://mayworks.ca/.