Jess Dobkin

Jess Dobkin

Jess Dobkin, Lactation Station promotional photo
Born 1970
Alma mater Oberlin College, Rutgers University
Known for performance art
Notable work Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar (2006)
Movement Feminism, Queer, LGBT
Website jessdobkin.com

Jess Dobkin (born 1970) is a performance artist who emerged in Toronto, Canada in 2002.[1] She is best known for her 2006 work The Lactation Station.

She has a B.A. in Women’s Studies from Oberlin College, and an M.F.A. in Performance Art from Rutgers University. She is a Fellow at the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto.

Career

Dobkin's work draws on her experience as a lesbian and a mother.[2] Her body often figures prominently in her performances, such as Fee for Service a performance installation where audience members were invited to sharpen a pencil in Dobkin's vagina.[3]

Dobkin has collaborated with other performance artists, including Martha Wilson, founder of the Franklin Furnace Archive. Dobkin is also known as a community organizer and often combines this with her creative work. In May 2015, after a successful crowdfunding campaign, she collaborated with many Toronto artists to create an alternative newsstand in a vacant kiosk at the Chester Subway Station for one year. The newsstand provides artists space to exhibit their work, providing a "creative exchange" for the commuters at the same time it sells newspapers, magazines, and snacks for a "monetary exchange."[4]

Major exhibitions

In 2006, Dobkin exhibited The Lactation Station in Toronto at the Ontario College of Art and Design's Professional Gallery, curated by Paul Couillard of FADO.[5] In this exhibition, Dobkin invited audience members to sample human breast milk. The exhibition, which was partly funded by the Canada Council for the Arts,[6] gained widespread attention and prompted Health Canada to issue a national warning against the online sale of human breast milk.[7] It was remounted in 2012 as part of the OFFTA Festival in Montreal.[8]

Works

Personal life

Dobkin is a lesbian and mother of a daughter.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Gillespie, Benjamin (Winter 2012). "Giving us 'Everything She's Got': Processing the Script-as-Archive in Jess Dobkin's Queer Performance Art". Canadian Theatre Review. 149: 52.
  2. ↑ Reeve, Charles (2012). Rachel Epp Buller, ed. Reconciling Art and Mothering. Farnham: Ashgate. pp. 125–136. ISBN 978-1-4094-2613-4.
  3. ↑ Krpan, Pike (2009). "Body of Work". Shameless. Winter: 30.
  4. ↑ Clarke, Katrina. "Artists take over Chester subway station newsstand for one year". The Star. Toronto Star. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  5. ↑ Rogerson, Stephanie (July 20, 2006). "Sense and sensibilities: FADO performance gives new meaning to the term "good taste"" (71). NOW Magazine.
  6. ↑ Clarke, Katrina. "Artists take over Chester subway station newsstand for one year". The Star. Toronto Star. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  7. ↑ Weeks, Carly (July 13, 2006). "Human milk sold online carries HIV risk: warning". The Ottawa Citizen.
  8. ↑ Chan, Crystal. "Breast milk's on tap at the OFFTA with Jess Dobkin's Lactation Station". nightlife.ca. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  9. ↑ Fuhrmann, Mike (June 15, 2006). "Performance artist offers breast milk tastings". Toronto Star.

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