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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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Presented at Lumen Festival 2020




Behnaz Fatemi
Lauren Prousky
Christie Shen
Joann Sparkes
Johanna Thompson

There is no U-Haul big enough for my move to sky castle explores repetition through acts of creation and destruction as a metaphor for the continuous work of becoming and individuating. The videos (documentation of a repetitive process) and resulting sculptures (what’s left over from the repetitive process) highlight a feeling of futility present in the often unnoticed, yet ongoing labour involved in self-care and self-preservation. These “behind-the-scenes” actions are emblematic of the care and attention needed to affect large scale social change, however here they manifest as intimate moments of individual transformation for the artist. Using everyday objects like hair, yarn, slinkys, fire and paper, the works in this show express a powerful tenderness and catharsis in their earnest ambition to forge one’s own path.