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Lauren Prousky


Exhibitions // Visual Art & Performance Projects
in wait
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
Don’t Tell Me What To Read
 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
Kludge vs. Skeleton Key
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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Concieved of and hosted with Sarah Thompson on September 4th, 2026

“Hi friends,

You are cordially invited to the first meeting of Don’t Tell Me What To Read! A Book Club For Stubborn People.

This experimental gathering is a book club where we do not, under any circumstances, tell each other what to read. Instead, this book club assumes reading is part of your life and sometimes ou want to talk about what you’ve read with other cool readers.

Here are the guidelines:
  1. Don’t tell anyone else what to read!
  2. Come prepared to talk about a book you finished (or almost finished) within the last little while. We are active readers here! No legacy reads!
  3. The book can be any genre or style.
  4. We are asking everyone to bring a shareable offering based on the book. Examples include, but are not limited to:
    1. A snack
    2. A drink
    3. A smell
    4. A texture
    5. Small items (handmade, mass-produced, from nature etc. etc.) to give out or pass around and experience.

The event will take place on Friday September 4th at 7:30pm. Please RSVP by Aug 26th. We’ll decide on an appropriate location once we know how many folks want to attend. 

Here are some additional details/an FAQ of sorts:
  1. You can make your book available for borrowing, but you cannot recommend that people borrow it.
  2. It’s all good if you and someone else coincidentally show up ready to talk about the same book. 
  3. If you read a book you found out about at book club, that’s beautiful and we love that because you chose that for yourself! We are not anti reading the same thing. We are anti telling me what to read.
  1. Audiobooks count!
  2. You CAN suggest people do/buy/consume/experience things that are not books. It’s literally (pun intended) only annoying when it's books.

Ok that’s all, thanks for reading!!

Xoxo,
Sarah Thompson & Lauren Prousky”
Don't Tell Me What To Read A Book Club For Stubborn People