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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2025

Creggan
Video, 7m33s 34/98/5973

2024

Source, Stream, Encryption
Site specific installation, 1mx1m 34/98/5973

2023

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

Household Code
Installation (Found objects, modified objects, textiles, drawings) 34/98/5973

2022

 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.
34/98/5973

Spiders
Sculpture series
These "spiders" are a series of experimental assemblages created through a process of handstorming. 
I intended to create work inspired by Donna Harraway's notion of the "Cthulucene"- a proposed epoch which is:
“made up of ongoing multispecies stories and practises of becoming-with in times that remain at stake, in precarious times, in which the world is not finished and the sky has not fallen – yet” (Haraway, 2016).

I explored materials tactiley, combining elements gathered through my personal scavenging process and engineering skeletons in response to the sway and gravity of the objects used.
The result is a series of tentacular, insectlike creatures who come from an imaginary realm. Through this process, I wanted to push myself to consider the world these beings might inhabit, and the kind of generative possibilities their cyborg forms provoke.34/98/5973