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Lauren Prousky


Exhibitions // Visual Art & Performance Projects
Pubic Mice
Nutcracker II
Microsoft Office Suite Presents: I Look Forward to Hearing Back 
handeye
a screen is a good servant to a soft animal in wait
Going up the down escalator (searching for a neutral path) 
open channel neutral agent 
Questions for a prebiotic broth
You can tell me more 
When we speak at the same time we speak the same language 
A spill that stays streaming
Collecting Dust
To build tiny monuments it to gather what’s there
Not for right now but keep just in case (BIG BAGS)
The glinting bones will go in my place (final performance in soup)
The Finally Frontier
JunkDrawerPhantomDressUpSoirée
Sometimes I worry I go too far

Gatherings // People Projects
failsafe
PoeticPolitic: Guided Writing for Collective Visioning
Black Tie Soup Night
Cha Cha Real Smooth: Art with Instructions
This Horizon Line is Bent at The Waist
Change of plans
Text Collective
Clutter Collaborator
Familiar Strangers
Little Eulogies for Stuff Departed
Buoyancy: Poolside Performances

Non-Fiction // Writing Projects
CAFKA.25 Writer-in-Residence 
Untitled (an essay by any other name would probably smell different)
Pinch 40.5: A Written Cabaret
My cuttlebone is a broken heart and it propels me forward
Becoming Slime
My Fruitless Love Affair With Sudoku
In defense of belly button lint and the hole that is nothing
Archive
Piles, colour coding, vessels, shelves and lists 

Fiction // Writing Projects
A brief overview of the stuntman economy
Trophy Case
Ushers
Too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction
Word Limit
The Matinée

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🐁️ Nutcracker II (I): November 14, 7:30pm @ Artcite Inc.🐁️


Performers: Julie Hall, Maddie Lychek, Tess Martens and Niomi Anna Cherney
Dramaturgy and Choreography: Ben Gorodetsky
Costumes: Nick Chatel









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Nutcracker II (II): December 2, 7pm @ Willistead Manor 🐁️🐁️

Performers: Alex Monk and Eric Miinch
Costumes: Nick Chatel






Nutcracker II is the name of two distinct yet connected performances that serve to animate, expand upon and deepen understanding of Pubic Mice. Both performances pull from and subvert the original Nutcracker story, “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” by E.T.A. Hoffmann, to explore themes of housing precarity and the province’s predatory housing policies.

The November 14 iteration of Nutcracker II took place during the opening of Pubic Mice and included a reading and a free handout of this text. 

The December 2 iteration of Nutcracker II was a fully improvised tour of Willistead Manor led by performers from the Windsor Improv Theatre. Guests got to experience the Manor from the viewpoint of its resident mice*, the unlikely landlords of this historic architectural landmark.

*This is a work of fiction. There are no known mice, rats or vermin of any kind presently residing at Willistead Manor or in any City of Windsor properties.

All photos by JEL Media 

Thank you to Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for supporting this project.