Lauren Haughey

is a multidisciplinary visual artist, organiser, producer, and writer based in Dublin.  Her practice explores the cultural, technological, and ecological conditions shaping contemporary life. 

Working across performance, sculpture, installation, moving image, participatory practice, and food-based interventions, she uses research-led and process-based experimentation to investigate how stories, myths, and collective imaginaries emerge within contemporary systems of meaning. In her practice, she aims to provide a lens of enchantment and sensitivity through which to view the world, with an approach of care and curiosity.

Selected works

2026
Hotel
Something is Lost

2025
 Ad Nauseam
Creggan

2024
Source, Stream, Encryption
Infinity Point

2023
Into the Furze
Household Code

2022
Circadian Supplement
Spiders

2021
Vertical Fence

Food Art

2025-Ongoing
Hedge Scullery

2025
Sculpture Supper

2023
Kale Kultures

2023
Chleb i Sol

Event Production

 BPM

Skirmish (2021-)

Hypostasis (2023-)

Writing

2025
The Reproduction of Tiki and the Hawaiian Original

Smart Devices and the Myth of Magical Ease

Fermentation as Embodied Ecological Practice

CV

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 What does the body need?
Site specific installation with performance

Circadian Supplement is a work which explores the contemporary culture of pharmaceutical interventions in the body. 
What do we lose when we trust corporations to intervene in the body's chemical processes?
Should we privilege the natural or artificial? 
What is nature, and is there a natural state we can "return" to? 
Are we in the position to be discerning about the hormonal affectors we're exposed to?
Can we simulate an "unadulterated" state through supplementation and chemical intervention?
Through taking the supplement into their body, the audience engages in a form of communion with the artist, the materiality of the comestible itself, and with those they're partaking in the experience with. 
As part of the work, attendees were invited to consume one of 12 agar orbs, each of which corresponded to an hour of the day- from 6am to 5pm. Those taking part were advised that each orb contained a pallete of supplements ranging from melatonin and caffeine to prolactin and testosterone; which would induce a state in the body designed to mimic the "organic" hormonal changes that would occur at the given time.
This piece was created to be shown on-site at the NCAD FIELD Fattening 2022/23, an end of term mid-winter celebration of the experiences our class had shared, the skills and knowledge we'd learnt, and the relationships we'd built. It was important to me that the work explored themes of trust, and the place of technology in humankind's contemporary re-evaluation of our relationship with the natural world and our bodies.