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

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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.