Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective: Constellating performance archives

The book Jess Dobkin's Wetrospective explores the internationally acclaimed artist's playful and provocative practice as performer, activist, curator, and community leader, and grapples with the question of how archives perform. It features contributions from renowned international performance theorists and artists, as well as a riot of full-colour photographs, providing access to Dobkin's celebrated artistic productions from the last 30 years.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 18 October 2024
Publisher: Intellect

Jess Dobkin's Wetrospective, a retrospective exhibition of her performance art, explores the internationally acclaimed artist's playful and provocative practice as performer, activist, curator, and community leader. The book reflects on the question of how archives perform, investigating what it might mean for art institutions to take seriously the embodied and communal nature of performance art in their practices of archiving and museological display. The exhibition, including its new staging in book form, is a large-scale research experiment in performance curation, investigating what it might mean for art institutions to take seriously the embodied and communal nature of performance art in their practices of archiving and museological display. Jess Dobkin's Wetrospective is a cast of renowned international performance theorists and artists, including Emelie Chhangur and Laura Levin, who dive into this exploration alongside Dobkin, curator Emelie Chhangur, and performance theorist and dramaturg Laura Levin. These contributions appear alongside a riot of full-color photographs, providing access to Dobkin's celebrated artistic productions from the last 30 years.

Weight: 1624g
Dimension: 350 x 262 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781835950449