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