“It’s exactly that sense of the unexpected, and the disquiet that can accompany it, that drives Ms. Dobkin’s work.” The Globe and Mail
“Vintage Breast Milk: Exploring the Discursive Limits of Feminine Fluids” by Penny Van Esterik, Taking Food Public: Redefining Foodways in a Changing World, eds. Psyche Williams-Forson and Carole Counihan, New York: Routledge Press, 2012
“Performing with Mother’s Milk: The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar” by Jess Dobkin, Intimacy Across Visceral and Digital Performance, eds. Maria Chatzichristodoulou and Rachel Zerihan, Palgrave Macmillan, May 2012
“The Lactation Station and A Feminist Pedagogy of Touch” by Stephanie Springgay, n.paradoxa, Vol. 26, 2010
“The Kindness of Human Milk: Jess Dobkin’s Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar”by Charles Reeve, Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, University of California Press, Winter 2009
Audiences are invited to taste samples of pasteurized human breast milk donated by new mothers, inviting a dialogue about trust, risk, taste, culture and bodily fluids.
Presented by FADO and co-presented by the Ontario College of Art & Design (2006) Presented by Studio 303 and OFFTA (2012) Curated by Natalie Loveless and presented by New Maternalisms and the FAB Gallery (2016)
Promotional Photo by David Hawe; Toronto photography by David Hawe; Montreal photography by Valerie Sangan; Edmonton photography by Michael Woolley