Jess Dobkin's Wetrospective: Constellating performance archives

How archives perform and live performance is archived.

Emerging from the first retrospective exhibition of performance art icon Jess Dobkin, this book reflects on the internationally acclaimed artist’s playful and provocative practice as a performer, curator, and community activist. At the same time, it grapples with a vital question for art and performance studies: How do archives perform?

More than a discrete showing of a single artist’s work, the exhibition, including its new staging in ...