Jess Dobkin's Vaginal Archive

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Abstract

Taking an autotheoretical approach, this short chapter discusses how Jess Dobkin activates her vagina, and references to it, in works such as Fee for Service (2006), Everything I’ve Got (2010), Clown Car (2008), and Being Green (2009). It uses Julietta Singh's framing of the body as an archive of penetration produced through its orifices, to explore how Dobkin performs her vaginal archive as an intimate and witty assemblage of historical traces, as a space of self knowledge and of hopeful becoming.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationJess Dobkin’s Wetrospective
Subtitle of host publicationConstellating performance archives
EditorsLaura Levin
PublisherIntellect Books
Pages122-123
Number of pages2
ISBN (Print)9781835950449
Publication statusAccepted/In press - 2024

Keywords

  • archive
  • performance
  • art
  • Body Art

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