"Jaw-dropping performance-art…" -Xtra

Creative and Production Team Credits:
Jess Dobkin, creator/performer
Stephen Lawson, director
Laura Baxter, production manager
Sherri Hay, production designer
Richard Feren, sound designer
Laird MacDonald, lighting designer

Jess Dobkin's performances, artist talks and workshops are presented internationally at museums, galleries, theatres, universities and in public spaces. Her creative endeavours have received wide support and recognition, including awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council, and repeated funding from the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art and Astraea Foundation.

Her work has toured internationally, and she has performed, lectured and conducted performance art workshops in the US, Canada, Germany, Belgium and the UK. Her performances have been presented at renowned avant-garde venues in New York including P.S.122, The Kitchen, Dixon Place and the Joyce SoHo. In Toronto, her work has been presented at The Power Plant, Ontario College of Art & Design Professional Gallery, WARC Gallery and other venues.

Jess's performances receive extensive print, radio, television and web media coverage and have been the subject of recent journal articles in Gastronomica and The Canadian Theatre Review. She was named "Best Performance Artist" by NOW and Xtra and her Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar performance continues to draw international media attention and interest.

She has worked as a sessional lecturer in the visual studies department at the University of Toronto and is currently an instructor at the Ontario College of Art & Design. She also serves on the University of Toronto/Sheridan College art and art history program advisory committee and on the board of directors at YYZ Artists' Outlet, an artist-run centre in Toronto.

Everything I’ve Got is in development with the support of Harbourfront Centre's HATCH residency program and the Canada Council for the Arts. The project will next be presented at the Rhubarb! Festival in February 2010.

WEBSITE:
www.jessdobkin.com

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