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Lauren Prousky


Exhibitions // Visual Art & Performance Projects
Pubic Mice
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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Questions for a prebiotic broth

In the simplest terms, “primordial soup” refers to the reactive, heterogenous mixture that supposedly was the origin of all life on earth. The theory has been largely discredited (life more likely originated from warm oceanic vents rather than a “soup”), however the image of a bubbling pot of materials forming life as we know it feels fruitful in a way separate from the faulty science. The sense of oneness and coziness that comes from distilling our common origin to something as colloquial as a soup is, in my layperson’s opinion, unparalleled by even a robust understanding of DNA and the exchanges of energy that create life. To be a person of the soup is to understand your connection to all living things with a sense of closeness and warmth. At the same time, becoming a soup person opens the door to nightmarish possibilities when considering the confines of the pot, the heat, and how likely it is for a soup without a chef to meld deliciously. To lightly puncture this great unknown, here are a series of questions for a prebiotic broth:

What if we never left the theorized Primordial Soup pot? Better yet, what if we did leave but accidentally returned? How can we leave again? Do we even want to? Perhaps the entropy of the swirling soup pot is our home state? Should we then aspire to live even more soupily? Maybe we already are. What about spillage? Is a soup without a vessel still a soup? Maybe, without our conscious knowledge, we are becoming a whole new kind of soup; our potential and capacity for doing better acting as the imaginal discs that keep things moving as our environment liquifies and thickens…

Or could it be, simply, that as soup people, there is levity to be found in embracing the randomness of our big bowl of inextricable goo?

Is that what this is?

Working in tandem with these questions are a series of sculptures, themselves unanswerable propositions for an unknowable life force. Each piece brings together natural and unnatural materials, with an emphasis on fabricated connectivity and a hardening of something once soft and soupy. My goal is to create evolving recipes using unlikely ingredients. My hope is that they exude their own generative reactions that move towards kinship and convergence against all odds.

Made, exhibited and then disgarded at Studio Kura in Itoshima, Japan in November 2022





two bowls
two bowls 
vellum, paint pen, cuttlebone, tape, medical cloth 

immersion blender
drift wood, vellum, plaster, tiles,
shell, acrylite, shovel, plant matter, pastel 
arbitrary scoop mechanism #1
velum, styrofoam, claw, handmade paper, pen
crouton
bouy, rope, sky stickers

Trickster inventory
box, plaster, stones, cement, wood, clay, shells, sky stickers, found ceramics



thick chunks
roofing tile, drift wood, plaster, watercolour pots, shell

spoon clinks or how it is to swirl uninterupted
drift wood, plaster, plastic gift bag, wooden stool, 3D printing material, bowl, seawater, vellum, pastel, sand




recipe test 
One Cup Sake jars, sea water, tap water, pigment, shells, bat nut, rocks, claw, fake food






bouquet garni or what we fish out
bouys, watercolour, driftwood, plastic chain


arbitrary scoop mechanism #2 (somehow only the good stuff)
drift wood, plaster, tiles




egg noodles in a separate container
shell, plaster, string, plastic mesh tube, branch with leaves, velum, marker 




bring to a simmer (the big wait) 
drift wood, plaster, found ceramics, shells, paper, metal, bouy, wood, pastel