Join us for an artist lecture with Anna Lublina, a Performance Artist and the PlySpace Residency Spring 2021 Fellow.
This lecture will be livestreaming on zoom and facebook live. It is free and open to the public. Click here to register through Eventbrite.
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.
At PlySpace, Anna has been exploring dough as a sculptural material and performance partner through their multidisciplinary project Leavening Agents. They have drawn from local bread recipes, visits to nature reserves, and conversations about baking and food culture 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 is creating sculptures and performances with dough as a way to better understand how to live in symbiosis with the natural world.
This Spring, Anna has collaborated with Ball State University School of Art students in 3D Foundations, and faculty Audrey Barcio, to workshop making art that is “alive” using raw bread dough and baked bread.
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, Dixon Place, The Brick, The Tank, The Pit, Vital Joint, Bread and Puppet Theater, and at the Communal Spaces Festival. Anna has been supported by fellowships and residencies such as the International Jerusalem Fellowship (2021), 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), Undiscovered Countries Blast Off! Lab (2019), the Sokoloff Arts Fellowship at Townstages (2019), the Blueprint Fellowship by COJECO, an organization that supports the Russian-speaking Jewish (RSJ) community (2019), the Centre Droiteval in France (2019), the Barn Arts Collective in Maine (2018), and Azule in North Carolina (2018).
Anna recently started a Master's degree in Choreography and Performance at the University of Giessen in Germany.
PlySpace is an immersive Artist-in-Residence program based in the Emily Kimbrough Historic District in downtown Muncie, Indiana. PlySpace provides dedicated space and time for residents to investigate and pursue their own work. Additionally, it serves as a platform for experimentation and provocation by sparking conversation and collaboration with various Muncie communities.
PlySpace is a program of the Muncie Arts and Culture Council in partnership with the City of Muncie, Ball State University School of Art, and Sustainable Muncie Corporation, and funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Learn more about Anna and their work at www.plyspace.org.