lauren han

interdisciplinary performance etc. artist

Hi! I'm Lauren. My home base is devising and performing for theatre, but I work in whatever medium I can get my hands on (so far, this has included stop-motion and live-action filmmaking, Butoh, songwriting, and poetry). I am a text-obsessed writer/reader/talker, and much of my practice stems from attempts to find the words for things. However, I also keep one foot in the material, the messy, the hands-on, and the arts-and-craftsy; I work with physical materials like slime, paper, and bread as research partners and sources for image- and meaning-making. I am interested in personal and local histories; gender; the body; crosses between fiction, documentary, memoir, and critique; and the relationships between people and the art and images they consume. 

I frequently use art as an excuse to do other things, like hanging out with people I love, watching a lot of movies, walking around the mall for hours, or taking amateurish leaps into new disciplines. My practice in research and creation opens up the world for me — and hopefully others — by allowing me to learn and share knowledge. My methods include staying up late, enlisting my friends, copying those I admire, throwing spaghetti at the wall, and going down rabbit holes.