As part of the solo exhibition Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective, AGYU is excited to host Portals, Potions, and Archives, a presentation by celebrated queer artist, writer, poet, and scholar Jehan Roberson. For this talk, Jehan will speak about her work within archives as a practice to counter historical erasure by rethinking how information is accumulated, sourced, referenced, and stored within a decolonial framework. This approach of recuperation and reparation informs Jehan’s writing and artwork, which are acts of resistance, knowledge sharing, and retribution.

Jehan Roberson uses collaboration as an approach within her interdisciplinary art practice. Projects such as ancestral futurities, a psalm for the mismeasured and unfit, and TALIXMXN are all collaborative projects that are co-conceived and produced with artists, choregraphers, writers, and family members. She is a magnanimous writer whose work has been published in Public Books, Apogee, VICE, Zora, Women & Performance, and Recess Art, among others. She is currently based in Ithaca, New York, where she is a PhD student in English Language and Literatures at Cornell University.

This artist talk is presented as part of a constellation of talks, performances and public engagements for Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective. The AGYU would like to thank: 16 TONNES, ampd*, FADO Performance Art Centre, franklin furnace, Hemispheric encounters (SSHRC), polyjohn, QUEST AV, and Sensorium.