Image by Mollie Pulte
I make things and make things happen.
My projects are usually participatory and range in scale from intimate interpersonal situations to group collaborations. I believe food has the potential to impact widespread change. As a result, food and its systems have found its way too many of my projects and is often at the nexus of my work.
For me there is no real separation between making a home and having a studio. As a result, I often view the ecology of my home a part of my creative practice. With this in mind, I run a residency program out of my home called. In Residence Living, (IRL). IRL is a social sculpture, an idea for sharing space, resources, and a way to identify new ways of making toward an ethic of care; the way we care for ourselves, our things, and one another. The primary goal of IRL is to make space for discussion and experimentation through the art of living. IRL participants are offered a place to stay, meals, supplies, materials, and access to my ceramic studio, publication studio, and sewing machines.
I co-founded the Working Library a socially engaged project and residency program that supports creative projects dealing in themes of publication, archive, and collection. The project lives on through a set of explicit instructions and ambiguous directions; you are welcome to check out the Working Library to activate in your space. If you are interested in learning more, please get in touch.
Currently embarking on new adventures and explorations. Want to collaborate, be a resident in IRL? Let's connect: lauraoquin (@) gmail (dot) com