Anna Lublina - 2021 Spring Fellow
photo credit: Sean Henry Smith
Production shot of "Daughters of the Moon" photo credit: Effy Grey
Trash flower dyeing practice
Anna lectured on her work on April 29th, at 6 PM online. The lecture was live streamed to the PlySpace Facebook Page: Here.
You can read about Anna’s experience and view her work in the PlySpace Gallery // Online!
Anna Lublina (they/she) is an interdisciplinary performance maker and educator focused on building mutually beneficial relationships between humans, objects, and environments in their work and life. As the child of a Soviet Jewish immigrant, they are drawn to diaspora as a creative format. They reject disciplinary borders to instead explore the mutability of structure, linking social practice, object theater, dance, music, and text to create installations and performances that imagine more caring, equitable futures. Anna’s work has been presented at various venues throughout New York City, including St. Ann’s Warehouse, Judson Church, the 14th St Y, Center for Performance Research, and The Old American Can Factory, among others. Anna has been supported by fellowships and residencies such as International Jerusalem Fellowship (2021), the Annenberg Helix Fellowship at Yiddishkayt (2020-2022), PlySpace Residency Fellowship (2021), LABA Fellowship at the 14th St Y (2019-2020), the St. Ann’s Warehouse Puppet Lab (2018-2019), SDCF Observership (2019-2020), the Blueprint Fellowship by COJECO, an organization that supports the Russian-speaking Jewish (RSJ) community (2019).
Anna recently started a Masters degree in Choreography and Performance at the University of Giessen in Germany.
At PlySpace, Anna explored dough as a sculptural material and performance partner through their multidisciplinary project Leavening Agents. Anna drew from local bread recipes, histories of baking, and cooking traditions in Muncie as a starting point for their creative research. Guided by the idea that dough is a living organism (a bubbling combination of flour, water, and yeast!), Anna created a multimedia installation and performance documenting their encounters with dough as it taught them how to live in symbiosis with the natural world.
As a resident fellow working with Ball State University School of Art, Anna worked with students in the 3D Foundations area to approach dough and bread as sculptural material. Students were invited to gather recipes from their families or larger communities which they translated into sculptural creations. They brought their unique creative approaches to the dough, transforming it into objects and arrangements that play with dough’s many meanings and usages—from Marxist tool of working-class revolution to late-20th-century enemy of low-carbohydrate diets.
Find out more about Anna’s work while at Plyspace by viewing the online gallery.