{"id":22933,"date":"2021-08-27T10:07:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T08:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=22933"},"modified":"2022-07-23T15:32:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T13:32:32","slug":"jess-dobkins-wetrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/jess-dobkins-wetrospective\/","title":{"rendered":"Jess Dobkin\u2019s Wetrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press release courtesy of curator Jenifer Papararo and artist Jess Dobkin<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nPhoto: Jess Dobkin\u2019s Wetrospective installation view featuring \u2018the archivists\u2019. Photo by Moe Angelos<\/em><\/p>\n

Jess Dobkin\u2019s Wetrospective<\/a><\/em>
\nSeptember 2 \u2013 September 26, 2021
\nOpening Reception: Friday, September 10th, 6 \u2013 9 pm [at capacity]
\nArt Gallery of York University (AGYU)
\nM09 Accolade East Building, Mezzanine
\n4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3<\/p>\n

The Art Gallery of York University is thrilled to re-open its doors with the first-ever retrospective exhibition of Toronto\u2019s performance art matriarch Jess Dobkin<\/a>, curated by Emelie Chhangur.<\/p>\n

Internationally acclaimed artist Jess Dobkin, who splashed Toronto with projects including The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar<\/em> (2006\u20132016), The Artist-Run Newsstand<\/em> at Chester Subway Station<\/em> (2015\u20132016), and The Artists\u2019 Soup Kitchen<\/em> (2012), welcomes the public to the re-opening of the AGYU. With her Wetrospective<\/em>, Dobkin invites us into 25 years of her playful and provocative practice with animated \u201clitrine vitrines\u201d (portable toilets) and a custom-designed augmented reality app. The exhibition is curated by award-winning, nationally celebrated curator Emelie Chhangur, Director and Curator of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario.<\/p>\n

Chhangur writes, \u201cDobkin upcycles her own archive of past performances in ways that constitute her concept of \u2018bendy-time.\u2019 This exhibition demands of archives what we expect from performance: the live encounter of experience in a ritual of transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Collective Effervescence Opening Party will feature an outdoor celebration with DJ Cozmic Cat, Nik Red, Sasha Van Bon Bon, and John Caffery spinning archives of Toronto\u2019s favourite parties plus Jewish Performance Food Truck with Guillermina Buzio and Bar Bacan.<\/p>\n

For the duration of the Wetrospective<\/em>, \u2018Archivists\u2019 will be in attendance and on AGYU\u2019s Instagram @a_g_y_u. Archivists include: Jess Dobkin, Shalon Webber-Heffernan, Nasim Asgari, Moe Angelos, Thalia Godbout, and Ella Tetrault.<\/p>\n

A signed and numbered artist multiple will be given to the first 100 visitors to the gallery (starting September 5).<\/p>\n

Ancillary Events and Activations:<\/h2>\n

Jess Dobkin\u2019s Wetrospective includes a constellation of talks, tours and engagements featuring seminal cultural critic Ann Cvetkovich; artist and scholar Jehan L. Roberson; artist and archivist Joyce LeeAnn; and performance scholar Laura Levin.<\/p>\n