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 language | English |
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Title of host publication | Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective |
Subtitle of host publication | Constellating performance archives |
Editors | Laura Levin |
Publisher | Intellect Books |
Pages | 122-123 |
Number of pages | 2 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781835950449 |
Publication status | Accepted/In press - 2024 |
Keywords
- archive
- performance
- art
- Body Art