Living Waste — 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

LIVING WASTE

Living Waste sets out to legally declare a vitrine at the Humboldt Forum’s Humboldt Labor as a genetic engineering facility to house the very much living “waste” that is leftover from genetic modification experiments using CRISPR Cas-9 technologies and the culturing process of genetically modified organisms. This facility is currently believed to be the first genetic engineering facility in a cultural institution in Germany.

The algae species Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is of particular interest for genetic engineering to create desired biological products, including biofuels and pharmaceuticals. However, the laws governing genetic modifications in Germany come with special considerations and regulations.

Living Waste aims to reveal the systems of bureaucracies that are entangled and entrap the bodies of these algae and ask questions about what happens when life as a living material and genetically modified bio-product is discarded as “waste”. Exhibited alongside the waste products of genetic engineering experiments are the contractual documents outlining the provisions of the exhibition of the waste in public. In the event that these conditions are violated, the artwork would be considered to be a violation of the Genetic Engineering Act (Gentechnikgesetz - GenTG).

2021-2025

“Living Waste” installation at the Humboldt Labor, Humboldt Forum, as part of the exhibition “Nach der Natur” (After Nature) (2023), Berlin, Germany (slideshow).

Photo credit: E nrico Schiewer and Lyndsey Walsh.

“Living Waste” contractual agreement and registration proof (2023 and 2024) as an S1 genetic engineering facility in Berlin, Germany (slideshow).

“Living Waste” digital archival documentation of the spatial dimensions of the designated S1 Genetic engineering facility at the Humboldt Labor at the Humboldt Forum (2023).

3D scanning and video rendering by Lyndsey Walsh.

“Living Waste” Credit:

The work has been commissioned by the Humboldt Labor at the Humboldt Forum with the support of UniSysCat Cluster of Excellence for the exhibition “Nach der Natur” (After Nature) until 2025.

“Living Waste” has been made in collaboration with the Department of Experimental Biophysics research group led by Prof. Dr. Peter Hegemann at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and UniSysCat Cluster of Excellence, with scientific collaboration and consultation with Prof. Dr. Peter Hegemann, E nrico Schiewer, Dr. Johannes Oppermann, Dr. Yousef Yari Kamrani, Dr. Olga Baidukova, Dr. Matthias Broser, and Darius Rauch.

↑ Return to Index