Works and descriptions from Jess Dobkin’s website. For privacy reasons, images and videos cannot be embedded.
Affirmations for Artists, 2012. Reciting affirmations in the women’s bathroom at the Power Plant’s annual Power Ball event.
Mirror Ball, 2008-9. The Power Plant Power Ball, Toronto, Canada; The Performance Mix Festival, New York City; and other venues.The artist performs as a functional human mirror ball, exploring physical and psychological vulnerabilities, limitations and boundaries.
The Lactation Station, 2006. The Ontario College of Art & Design Professional Gallery, presented by Fado and co-presented by the Ontario College of Art & Design
The artist invites audiences to taste samples of pasteurized human breast milk donated by six lactating new mothers, inviting a dialogue about this challenging and most intimate of motherhood rites.