EAU DE PARFUM: TMAU — 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

EAU DE PARFUM: TMAU

“EAU DE PARFUM TMAU” is a smell composition based on the smell of the medical condition Trimethylaminuria, otherwise known as “Fish Odor Syndrome”. TMAU is caused by a genetic condition related to a mutation in the FMO3 gene. This mutation causes the body’s metabolic processes to break down trimethylamine, which is a colorless amine produced by microbes in the gut that has a fishy or rotten fish-smelling odor. This condition causes people with this mutation to have a fishy body odor. In so-called “normal” metabolic processes, trimethylamine is broken down into a molecule that does not emit an odor.

“EAU DE PARFUM TMAU” is an artistic attempt to recreate the smell of the genetic condition while critically reflecting on the ways we culturally and socially value particular genetic conditions and bodily traits. Displayed in a repurposed vintage Chanel bottle in the Chanel brand logotype, “EAU DE PARFUM TMAU” specifically sets out to critically engage with future speculations of designer babies and the reality of the social, cultural, and economic stigma that people face when their mutation creates so-called “undesirable effects” and question how we think about mutations and genetic difference.

2022-2023

“EAU DE PARFUM TMAU” documentation from the exhibition “Blends: Explorations of Memory, Identity, Ecology, and Danger” at Olfactory Art Keller (2023), New York, New York, USA, curated by Gayil Nalls (slideshow).

Photo credit: Olfactory Art Keller.

“EAU DE PARFUM TMAU” Credits:

“EAU DE PARFUM TMAU” is an artwork based on the research project “When Leaky Bodies Reek”, which sets out to examine societal fears surrounding disease and body horror through smell. The project features the “EAU DE PARFUM” branch of the project, along with workshops on body odor and leakiness.

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