Lauren Warrington, Ancient Plains

Ancient Plains is a response to the cultural and racial biases found in the traditional definition of classical antiquity. For millennia the standard of antiquity has remained the same leading to a homogenous perspective that fails to represent a broad spectrum of “civilizations”.

Colourful, evolving shapes contrast with the homogenous, idealized forms of classical sculpture - this installation in the Museum of Antiquities at the University of Saskatchewan created a dynamic environment symbolic of continually shifting perspectives and the beauty associated with difference.


Lauren Warrington

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Projects:
On Tracing Memory 
Somewhere in Mid-hyperspace
Inside Elsewhere ˚ ʚÏɞ ˚
Her Biomorphic Bacterial Babies 
Ancient Plains


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Lauren Warrington is an artist and researcher living between Saskatoon and Toronto, who works with digital and physical space. Her practice is grounded in her experiences as a “mixed-race” Chinese Canadian on the prairies and engages the complexities of how cultural memory is created and the possibilities of its recontextualization through digital space and physical forms. She is interested in how technological and material systems can articulate diasporic subjectivities, functioning as repositories and mediums through which identity is negotiated and expressed. 

Lauren is also a founding member of Biofeedback Collective, a three member artist collective focused on creating programming for underrepresented and emerging artists.