The Fragility of Resistance Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya, known by her moniker Gluklya, stands as a pioneering figure in the landscape of Russian performance art. Emerging from the transformative era of perestroika, her artistic identity was forged amidst the collapse of the Soviet Union, a period marked by both the disintegration of old certainties and the intoxicating, often chaotic, promise of new liberties. Based in St. Petersbur…