CRAWLERS: Portals — Lyndsey Walsh

Smell concept and realization made by Theresa Zwerschke and Lyndsey Walsh for and in collaboration with Shu Lea Cheang, Commissioned by Haus der Kunst Munich.

2025

Smell composition of “whale-centric planetary metabolism” for “Whale Falls, Carbon Sinks” installation as part of “Carbon” Exhibition

Smell concept realized by Lyndsey Walsh and Alanna Lynch for Carbon Aesthetics Group (Desiree Foerster, Andrés Burbano, Myriel Milicevic, Alex Toland, Clemens Winkler and Karolina Sobecka) for exhibition at Science Gallery Bengaluru

2023

Curation

Venue

Year

I’m Daddy: “Artificial Follies” exhibition

Dzialdov, Berlin, Germany

2023

I’m Daddy: “LORE” exhibition

Gelegenheiten, Berlin, Germany

2022

“Art and Natural Sciences: Master Showcase 2021”

AIR.ITMO, St. Petersburg, Russia

2021

Writing

Publisher Name and Type

Year

Articles: CLOT Magazine

CLOT Magazine is an online publishing platform dedicated to art/technology interactions and experimental art forms based out of London, UK. Lyndsey is a Contributing Writer, authoring Op-Ed, Interviews, Insights, and more since 2020.

Various

Articles: Makery Media

Makery.info is an online and bilingual (French/English) magazine, covering the Do-It-Yourself and creative communities scenes in art, science, technologies. Lyndsey is a contributing chronicler, authoring articles since 2023.

Various

Book Contribution (3 Recipes, titled: “First Course: How to grow a Rainbow”, “Second Course: How to Feed Your Cancer”, “Third Course: How to Feed the Earth”)

Commissioned and Written for The Course Book, a companion publication to The Course project by the South Korean curatorial collective named set. Publication is biligual (with both Korean and English versions of the contributed texts).

TBA

Book Contributions: “Self-Care” (solo authorship) and “Smell Workshop” (co-written with Alanna Lynch)

Commissioned and written for the Matter of Flux book, which is a publication of the research project “Matter of Flux” initiated by Art Laboratory Berlin.

2024

Book Contribution: “Living Waste: An Artistic Intervention on Genetic Engineering at the Humboldt Lab”

Commissioned and written for the After Nature Laboratory Notebook accompanying the After Nature Exhibition by the Humboldt Labor at the Humboldt Forum, with publishers Humboldt University of Berlin and DIAPHANES.

2024

Chapter in Book: “Crips, cryptids, and imagining other beings”

Commissioned and written for FERAL Labs node book #2, Feralities, edited by Yvonne Billimore, Tina Dolinšek, Uroš Veber, published by BioArt Society and Zavod Projekt Atol in the context of Rewilding Cultures project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the EU.

2024

Academic Article: “Self-Care: Seeking Queer Liberation from the Medical Gaze and Genetic Fatalism”

Accepted and published in the AM Journal of Art and Media Studies, Section: Main Topic: Art, Science, and Health, Issue No.: 32, October 2023, .

2023

Blog Article: “The Teratoma Will Always Return”

Commissioned and written for Posthuman Laboratories as part of the Intelligence Unbound Project (online)

2023

Academic Article: “(R)EVOLUTION: Optogenetics Art and Interspecies Microperformance”

Accepted and published in Journal of British Computer Science, Politics of the Machines - Rogue Research

2021

Articles: Unbore Collective

Unbore Collective is an organisation and online platform based in the Netherlands that fosters and advocates arts, life sciences and technology intersections. Lyndsey was a contributing writer for Unbore from 2019-2020.

2019-2020

Magazine Article: “Young and Healthy and Waiting to Get Cancer”

Commissioned and published for Nautilus Magazine, US based Science, Culture, and Technology Magazine.

2020

CRAWLERS: PORTALS TO SUMMON WEB CHAOS

Portals to Summon Web Chaos is a net-based and interactive art project and a Crawlers Production.

Portals are openings that allow transit between spaces: portals can be architectural (like doors or gates), they are magical (mushroom rings to fairyland, psychic gateways to the Astral plane, the rabbit hole of Alice in Wonderland), and they are digital (screens, log-in pages, Wikipedia portals, virtual transportation).

“Portals to Summon Web Chaos” explores the use of portals in ecomancy, building on the tradition of object-based magic. Participants and audiences are taught and invited to create their own portal in physical space and then consecrate it for the digital realm by uploading their portals to the online charging station hosted by Crawlers.

Once charged, these portals are digitally entangled to form digital portals of connection between various locations on the internet. This is done in the spirit of preserving the history of randomness, self-governance, free information, and anonymous networking on the web and in defiance of the dominant rational, user-tailored, monetised social media monopoly of our current internet experience.

During each session of “Portals to Summon Web Chaos”, participants are also taught to write alt text and think about the entanglements between digital spaces and physical realities as facilitated through accessibility technologies, which they will upload along with their final portal.

“Portals to Summon Web Chaos” is part of the project “A Practical Guide to Ecomany for the Digital Age“, which explores systems of narrative making by consulting both traditional magic rituals and scientific futures. Presented as three workshops/performances. “A Practical Guide to Ecomancy for the Digital Age” invokes the powers of our nonhuman kin to equip participants with the necessary tools to reconcile science and magic.

2021-2023

“Portals to Summon Web Chaos” as part of Uroboros Festival (2021) (slideshow)

Crawlers generated example portals (digitally rendered and collaged) (slideshow).

“Portals to Summon Web Chaos” at Side Gate (2024) as part of “A Portal to Where?” exhibition curated by Jess Cockerill and Anna Dunnill (slideshow).

“Portals to Summon Web Chaos” Credits:

“Portals to Summon Web Chaos” is a Crawlers Production.

Crawlers is a feral creative collaboration between symbionts Lyndsey Walsh and Jess Cockerill. Crawlers is also a writhing, tangled cluster of biological science, visual art, horror cinema, wild technology, new-age mythology, and a morbid fascination with the afterlife.

“Portals to Summon Web Chaos” has been part of the Uroboros Festival curated by Uroboros and produced with DOX Center for Contemporary Art in Prague, Czechia, “Portals to Summon Web Chaos” at Side Gate (2024) as part of “A Portal to Where?” exhibition curated by Jess Cockerill and Anna Dunnill, “Casting a Spell” group exhibition on digital realms (2024) at SomoS Berlin curated by Arianna Forte in collaboration with the Italian Council.

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