Lauren Haughey
is a multidisciplinary visual artist, writer and event organiser based in Dublin.
Her practice is mainly concerned with exploring our present historical moment; a time of increasing techno-cultural accexxleration and profound alienation and disembodiment. 
Any profound moment of change is flagged by an permeability of boundaries, and Haughey's practice places a magnifying glass on these intersections of identity and culture. Her work engages with themes of cyborgification; between nature, technology, humanity and culture.
She values magic and mythos, and engages with the inexplicable and illusory as a way of understanding the present world, and generating imaginations of new worlds to come.

Selected works
2025
Creggan

2024
Source, Stream, Encryption
Infinity Point

2023
Into the Furze
Household Code

2022
Circadian Supplement
Spiders

2021
Vertical Fence

Food Art
Hedge Scullery (2025)
Sculpture Supper (2025)
Kale Kultures (2023)
Chleb i Sol (2023)

Writing
2025
The Reproduction of Tiki and the Hawaiian Original
Smart Devices and the Myth of Magical Ease
2024
Fermentation as Embodied Ecological Practice


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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.
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