Rillig — 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

RILLIGLAB ARTIST RESIDENCY

Beginning in the fall of 2024, Lyndsey Walsh was invited to be hosted by the RilligLab as an artist-in-residence.

This residency focused on transdisciplinary artistic research on the topic of the Necrobiome: Life After Death in connection with soil systems and global change ecology.

The residency research explored the complex web of cultural, social, scientific, and ecological entanglements that are enmeshed in Necrobiotic and Thanatomicrobiotic communities. The residency also attempted to explore ideas concerning contamination involved in death, such as antibiotic resistance (thanatoresistome) and genes and genetic materials and components, as a polluting factor.

Key themes and ideas to be explored during the residency include: the role of death in carbon sequestration, the meaning-making involved in death processes of macro and microbiotic organisms (how the ways in which things die materially manifests and creates meaning), the role of microorganisms in death pathways, more-than-human perspectives on death, microperformativity in relation to death pathways, ecological impacts of death and death pathways on a local and global scales.

Research was done in collaboration with Dr. India Mansour and Dr. Matthias Rillig. External consultation on the project in connection with religious connotations of soil and funerals was conducted with Rabbi Helen Cohn.

Research progress was presented at the Fachbereich Tag of the Free University of Berlin’s Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy 2025 and the Taboo - Transgressions - Transcendence Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in the session Resonance.

2024-2025

Sketches from ongoing research as part of the residency with the RilligLab that were presented at both the Fachbereich Tag of the Department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy 2025 and the Taboo - Transgressions - Transcendence Conference.

Residency credits:

Artist-in-residence at the RilligLab has been supported and funded by a grant award from the free University of Berlin’s Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy and the RilligLab.

↑ Return to Index