https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/6bb2e1291d6d97f55b95215dc55ca471.jpeg e64733c4c2f74f7168d91059c7fc1266 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.jessdobkin.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jessdobkin.com</a> Medium performance social practice Location The location of the interview Toronto Canada Artist Statement I’ve been a working artist, curator, community activist and teacher for more than 25 years, creating and producing intimate solo performances, large-scale public happenings, socially engaged interventions and performance art workshops and lectures. My practice extends across black boxes and white cubes, art fairs and subway stations, international festivals, and single bathroom stalls. I’ve operated an artist-run newsstand in a vacant subway station kiosk, a soup kitchen for artists, a breast milk tasting bar, and a performance festival hub for kids. I’m forever inspired by the rebel queers, renegade witches, and other dyke moms I run with, and bound to many brilliant artists, activists, spell-casters and healers. For many years I made performances that drew from my own experiences of trauma and transformation, intimacy and motherhood. More recently, I’ve experienced a shift in my practice, where my attention has turned to wider theoretical questions about the nature of performance itself to ask questions about when, where, how we perform - in theatres and galleries, on social media, and in our everyday lives. Topic abjection activism adulthood aging archive art art and research artist mother art making artist parent artist/mother artistic labor artists with children autobiography binary tensions bioethics biology birth birth and death birth trauma bleeding body body exploration body transformation breast milk breast pump breastfeeding breastmilk care censorship childhood creative practice creative strategies cultural reproducers culture curating curation curator curatorial practice documentation domestic labor domestic life domestic space domesticity early motherhood early parenthood empathy ethics exhaustion family family accessible event family portrait feminism feminist feminist art feminist art theory gender gender roles gender stereotypes human body humor identity interdisciplinary intimacy invisible labor lactation love materiality maternal maternal body maternal bodies maternal care maternal desire maternal experience memory menstruation mess milk mother mother artist identity mother as artist mother body mother/artist identity mother/child relationship motherhood and political context motherhood motherhood and art motherhood and art practice motherhood and creative practice motherhood and social context motherhood and studio practice motherhood as art practice mothering mothers nursing nursing mothers objectification parent parent artists parent/child relationship parenthood parenting parents patriarchy performativity personal experience play subjectivity power public breastfeeding public space pumping queer queer identity queer parenting representation representations of motherhood research and art resistance ritual rituals sexuality single mothers single mother social justice social practice stories storytelling theory time transformation trauma vagina visual culture woman women women and gender studies women artists women representation women's health women's identity Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar 2006, 2012, 2016 Imagined Family Portraits 2007 - ongoing Free Childcare Provided 2013 Fee for Service 2006 Being Green 2009 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jess Dobkin abjection activism adulthood ageing archive art art and research art making artist mother artist parent artist-parents artist/mother artistic labor artists with children autobiography binary tensions bioethics biology birth birth and death birth trauma bleeding body body exploration body transformation breast milk breast pump breastfeeding breastmilk Care censorship childhood creative practice creative strategies cultural reproducers culture curating curation curator curatorial practice documentation domestic labor domestic life domestic space domesticity early motherhood early parenthood empathy ethics exhaustion family family accessible event family portrait feminism feminist feminist art feminist art theory gender gender roles gender stereotypes human body humor identity interdisciplinary intimacy invisible labor lactation love materiality maternal maternal bodies maternal body maternal care maternal desire maternal experience memory menstruation mess milk mother mother artist mother artist identity mother artists mother as artist mother body mother/artist identity mother/child relationship motherhood motherhood and art motherhood and art practice motherhood and creative practice motherhood and political context motherhood and social context motherhood and studio practice motherhood as art practice mothering mothers nursing nursing mothers objectification parent parent artists parent/child relationship parenthood parenting parents patriarchy performativity personal experience play power public breastfeeding public space pumping queer queer identity queer parenting representation representations of motherhood research and art resistance ritual rituals sexuality single mother single mothers social justice social practice Stories storytelling subjectivity theory time transformation trauma vagina visual culture woman women women and gender studies women artists women representation women’s health women’s identity