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At Plyspace, I explored dough as a sculptural material and performance partner through my multidisciplinary project Leavening Agents. My creative research has drawn from local bread recipes and the wetland ecological systems prominent in Muncie. Guided by the idea that dough is a living organism (a bubbling combination of flour, water, and yeast!), I am investigating the way dough responds when in relation to other ecological systems, like grasslands, riverbanks, and skin microflora. Border ecologies–– the place where two ecologies meet–– is the most healthy and diverse in the world. I am using these teachings from the natural world to consider the ways social borders in Muncie –– neighborhood borders, racial borders, socio-economic borders, religious borders–– are fertile grounds of bio and cultural diversity. This research unfolds in a series of sculptures, texts, photographs, performative gestures, and social encounters.
DATES:
March 7- May 5, 2021: Community Residency at PlySpace in Muncie, Indiana (more information here: https://www.plyspace.org/our-residents-1/2021/2/3/anna-lublina-2020-spring-fellow)
April 29, 2021: Plyspace Artist Lecture (linked)
May 1, 2021: Bread and River Party, Westside Park, Muncie, IN
May 3, 2021: Final Exhibit with Ball State Student’s work
Photographs by Melissa Joy Livermore, Dancer featured is Kate Laughlin
I also worked with the 3D Foundations students at Ball State to use bread and dough as a sculptural material. Check out a zine of their work below.
