As a preamble to a larger card game about Muslim-Jewish conviviality and post-nation-state futures, Rüzgâr Buşki and Anna Lublina present three watercolor paintings. Using the form of a traditional ketubah (illustrated Jewish marriage contract), patterns inspired by the tiles of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and a scripted dialogue; the works seek the textures of coexistence within ancestral worlds and examine how these forms have been dissected or altered to fit Western cultural grammars-- or disappeared completely in the name of ethno-nationalism.

MODULE 1: LISTENING
24. - 27.10.2024 / GEBHARDSHÜTTE, ODENWALD

Undying in Yidderland returns to Hessen for the MADE.Festival

Freitag 05.07. / 18 Uhr Beginn und Ende im Foyer des Kleinen Hauses

Samstag 06.07. / 16 Uhr Beginn und Ende im Foyer des Kleinen Hauses

Riksteatern (Stockholm, Sweden)

https://www.riksteatern.se/dans/produktionsresidens-dans/produktionsresidens-dans-2024/parasight/

https://www.cecartslink.org/participant/anna-lublina/

Thursday, February 1 | 7:30PM
Friday, February 2 | 7:30PM
Saturday, February 3 | 7:30PM

2022-23 Renewal Residency Artist Andros Zins-Browne is an NYC-born performance and dance artist whose work has been presented and commissioned globally.

Zins-Browne’s recent work (duel c, River-To-River Festival, 2023) explores ideas of care and violence commingled between bodies. With duel    H, he extends his inquiry into relationships between bodies and ecology, exploring fluidity between human animals and land in their potentialities.

Inhabiting a space where binaries as care and violence, human and non-human, above and below might intertwine, the performance rearranges the hierarchical terms we habitually stand on.

Underground
Under the ground
Beneath the earth
Below the surface
Be low

To exist
An ex-pression of
Ex-
A life out of / from
negation

When life on earth seemed uninhabitable,
We went under
sub
-stance
-liminal
-sists

Subterranean growth
Subterranean light
Subterranean joy

New work by Gry Tingskog

Residency at MDT (Stockholm)

Doikayt (Hereness) is a multimedia performance art project that stages live, character-driven performances at Jewish sites across Eastern Europe to explore themes of loss and healing through a diasporic lens. The project will reanimate Yiddish folktales and revitalize Ashkenazi performance traditions in the lands where Yiddish culture once flourished but was nearly extinguished by genocide. 

The first performances will take place June 27-July 2, 2023. The artwork will be staged as a week-long event on the streets of Kazimierz (the Jewish district) and introduce audiences to a contemporary reimagining of The Seven Beggars, a famous hasidic tale by Rebbe Nachman of Breslov. 

For each day of the performance, Julie Weitz will embody a different beggar and be accompanied by a queer cast of Jewish diaspora artists, including Moriel Rothman-Zecher + Ira Khonen Temple + Anna Lublina. Our vibrant reimagining of Nachman's cryptic tale will invite audience participation and combine poetry, music, movement, and art to reveal how each beggar’s impairment is actually a blessing in disguise.

June 27- July 2

Galicia Jewish Museum

Krakow, Poland

https://32.jewishfestival.pl

Here is to the experience of time framed by waiting and the power relations that are weaved into it. The significant political questions and demands for understanding what waiting have been about. Waiting for an acceptance letter, waiting for a visa appointment, waiting for another year, waiting for my case to come up, waiting for my number to be called, waiting for the morning to rise. I, like many, am still waiting for our voices to be heard and for a sense of calm and belonging to settle in our bodies. In “over and over and over”, three performers long for a channel to tune in, to open up the singular weight of their waiting into a collective experience.

Conception: Raha Dehghani Vinicheh
Performance: Joana Ferraz, Raha Dehghani Vinicheh, Nastya Dzyuban
Dramaturgy: Anna Lublina
Costumes Designer: Laura Stellacci
Sound composer: Shaahin Peymani

March 24-25, 8pm

Mousonturm Kunstlerhaus

https://www.mousonturm.de/en/events/over-and-over-and-over/

Veltroyer is a performance ritual of grief, calling on traditional Yiddish land practices to mourn the loss of more-than-human worlds. The project emerges from an ongoing collaboration between Jerry Lieblich and Anna Lublina. Together, we’ve been exploring ritual and ceremony as performative practice and investigating traditional Yiddish cultural forms as ancestral groundwork for contemporary spirituality and aesthetics.

Our time at ID Frankfurt will mark the beginning of this project. It will give us time for research and to develop initial practices. We will begin by exploring Jewish rituals of grief. How do Jews grieve loss? What regional and temporal variations are there in these practices? What structures can hold the process of loss? What is the relationship to time? Space? The body? Isolation or collectivity? We are interested in seeing how these embodied traditions have shifted over time, and how they may disappear altogether.

We will also research Jewish land practices and conceptions of the natural world.  How does Judaism consider the lives of animals, plants, rivers? Where has Jewish culture drawn the line between “nature” and “culture”? How does it conceive the connections or borderlands between those two realms? What regional, folk, or non-doctrinaire practices exist within the tradition?

Once we have a foundation of research, we will begin to develop our own practices of grief and nature-connection. For instance, we can imagine writing obituaries for the severe loss of birds globally. An obituary for a specific species might be sung or danced in the rhythm of its birdcall. Practices of shrine-building, place-naming, listening, attending, laughing – in what ways can we practice our grief?

“Are we the echo whose voice centuries could not stifle?” - Edmond Jabés

We are the inhabitants of Yidderland, actors in communication with ancestors in the present-past-future. We channel a model of Jewishness–– one that understands Judaism as a diasporic tradition of ever-changing practices that emerge out of intra-cultural relationships. Our performance borrows its structure from a Jewish funeral procession: a moving and sounding body that pauses 7 times for contemplation. But instead of reciting the prayer per tradition, each pause is a ritual act spoken in Yidderish; a language built through the dissection and embodiment of Yiddish without learning the language. 

Are we holding a funeral for Yiddish? We don’t think so. We are voicing the echo of diaspora.

Undying in Yidderland uses the invisible inheritances of gesture, emotion, and instinct to move towards a reimagined future.

Created in collaboration with: lim mui, Gry Tingskog, Eli Berman, Raha Dehghani Vinicheh, Jerry Lieblich, Laura Stellacci

UPCOMING PERFORMANCE

March 24-26, 2023: Mousonturm Künstlerhaus

I have a short video honoring the dawn in this years TIKKUN celebration presented by Reboot and Laba.

http://www.rebooters.net/dawn?fbclid=IwAR2-fmc9PYp216mnjlUHiQrmlRfn0-7Wnl36PaWDmY-EoS7mZzU20bzMMTE

I would write you, the dawn, a painting and dig it beneath the roots of this tree. I would ask the morning glories (Ipomoea tricolor), gazania daisies (Gazania spp.), Jamaican fever plants (Tribulus cistoides), Venice mallows (Hibiscus trionum), California poppies (Eschscholzia californica), and all the flowers that bloom with you, my dawn, to lend me their petals to paint with, a ritual bleeding into a canvas of silk. I would plant the silk and your sunrise together, a symbiosis, into the earth and hang them from the trees, a true flag to the truest nation I know.

At PlySpace, Anna will explore dough as a sculptural material and performance partner through their multidisciplinary project Leavening Agents. Anna will draw 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 will create a multimedia installation and performance documenting their encounters with dough as it teaches them how to live in symbiosis with the natural world. 

As a resident fellow working with Ball State University School of Art, Anna will work with students in the 3D Foundations area to approach dough and bread as sculptural material. Students will be invited to gather recipes from their families or larger communities which they will translate into sculptural creations. They will bring 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. The workshop will culminate in an online exhibition and event titled Bake Sale.

https://www.plyspace.org/our-residents-1/2021/2/3/anna-lublina-2020-spring-fellow