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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Into the Furze
Video documentation of site specific performance, 7m45s
I lived in Poznan for 5 months, and I had to take a different route almost every week because of the ever-shifting labyrinth of railings cutting through the building site the city had become. 
The blockwork, tarmac and concrete had been removed, revealing the sandy foundations the urban environment was built on. Commuters treaded carefully through post-apocalyptic industrial landscapes, dust blowing in the wind; chasms revealing pipes and wires opened beside corner shops. 

The renovation work was surreal, but its end goal was ultimately to reproduce what had been there before.

I collected wild grasses from forgotten ruderal spaces around the city and made a mummer's costume- an archetypal trickster character in Irish Folk culture. Grass is a pioneer species that moves into razed landscapes and creates a hospitable environment for other plants and animals to establish themselves, creating fertility in barren places. 
The practice of mumming creates questions around hospitality towards the stranger. The mummer is a chaotic figure, a roguish agitator who invites wildness into domestic and civilised society. 

The construction presented an opportunity to slip through a door and imagine a disruption to the status quo. To embody the tricksterly, reproductive spread of the wild as it comes into tension with the endless reiteration of urban neoliberal systems and forms.34/98/5973