Laura Levin is associate professor of theatre and performance at York University (Toronto) and York research chair in art, technology, and global activism. She is director of Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and Technology and the Hemispheric Encounters Network, and author of Performing Ground: Space, Camouflage, and the Art of Blending In.

'Wetrospective celebrates over thirty years of Dobkin's compelling practice, from cabaret performances to unannounced interventions. [Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective] restages the exhibition in print. Designed by Lisa Kiss, the oversized volume features full-bleed colour images on almost every page, as well as writings by Chhangur, editor Laura Levin and a large cast of colleagues. It also includes illuminating drawings and writings by the artist.Jess Dobkin is hands-down my favourite Canadian Performance Artist. Her work is bold, thoughtful, resonant, and accessible - deftly balancing confrontation with comedy. Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective: Constellating performance archives is the first comprehensive survey of her work, clearly produced by all involved as a labour of love.'

• Emelie Chhangur, In and of an ArchiveLaura Levin, Performance and the Making of Liberatory ArchivesShalon T. Webber-Heffernan, Wetrospective Audio DescriptionsThe LobbyA room that performs as ‘Lobby’ and re-frames the frame of the gallery.Moynan King, Inside the Exhibition Hurmat Ain, Lobby of HospitalityMoe Angelos, A Woman Iis Her Own OceanMaria Hupfield, Post Performance / Conversation ActionBenjamin Gillespie and Jess Dobkin, Power to the Pause: A Pandemic Conversation Jess Dobkin, Interlude: excerpt from The Magic HourGallery Room OneA room where performance ephemera (props, costumes, puppets) perform for the gallery audience – and for each other – in latrine vitrines, rather than trying to capture time past.Alex Tigchelaar, I’ve Got Your HoleDany Lyne, CongruenceThalia Godbout, Porta-Jane Drawings Roberta Mock, Jess Dobkin’s Vaginal Archive Dayna McLeod, Queerly TouchingTamyka Bullen, WavesJess Dobkin, Interludes: excerpts from The Magic Hour, Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar, and M*THERFUCK#RGallery Room TwoOne Hundred documenters (re)perform Dobkin’s iconic work, How Many Performance Artists Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb (For Martha Wilson), creating a new artwork out of its traces.Amy Fung, Evidence Toward a Hungry RoomLaine Halpern Zisman, Renovated Memories and the Stories They TellAndrew Zealley, Music in Eight PartsJess Dobkin, Interludes: excerpts from The Magic Hour and ‘Notes on Bendy Time’ Gallery Room ThreeAn archive reading room, where spectators are invited to sift through Jess’s ‘stuff’ performing in poetically labelled boxes and through an AR interface.Ann Cvetkovich, The Healing Magic of the Archival Box Jehan Roberson, On Touching the IntangibleJoyce LeeAnn, (re)Defining ‘Archivist’Clayton Lee, 32 Things about the Wetrospective on TourJess Dobkin, Interludes: excerpts from The Magic Hour and Everything I’ve GotJess Dobkin: Performance Chronology Contributor Bios