TOKAS — 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

TOKYO ART AND SPACE RESIDENCY

From January to March of 2025, Lyndsey Walsh carried out an artistic residency at Tokyo Art and Space Residency (TOKAS) based in Tokyo, Japan. During the residency, Lyndsey conducted artistic research looking at chimeras, Yokai, and monsters/monster culture in Japan and in relation to their uses as techno-objects.

Research activities included site visits to the Ainu Cultural Center in Tokyo, the Pokémon Center in Tokyo, the Department of Electrical Engineering and Bioscience, Waseda University, museum and gallery visits, and a research trip through the Kansai region of Japan.

During Lyndsey’s research trip through the Kansai region, Lyndsey did a site visit to the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application at Kyoto University for the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology, where they interviewed Dr. Misao Fujita, principal investigator of the Fujita research group for Bioethics. Lyndsey also visited a number of local Kansai region sites across Kyoto, Uji, and Osaka, connected to human and non-human relationships and the positioning of non-human entities as techno-objects in culture and scientific research. Lastly, Lyndsey traveled to Himeji in Kobe to visit the Hyōgo Prefectural History Museum and interview the head curator and Japan’s first accredited “Yōkai professor,” Dr. Masanobu Kagawa.

Lyndsey was invited to give talks in Tokyo with BioClub Tokyo in collaboration with metaPhorest and in Kyoto for the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application at Kyoto University for the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology.

Research findings, sketches, and artwork prototypes were presented in the TOKAS Open Studio.

2025

Documentation of TOKAS Open Studio and images of artistic sketches/prototypes presented (slideshow).

Images and Photo Credit: Lyndsey Walsh

Documentation of research trips during the 2025 TOKAS Residency Programme (slideshow).

Photo credit: Chen Zhe and Lyndsey Walsh

Documentation of artist talk presented to BioClub Tokyo in collaboration with metaPhorest.

Photo credit: Joaquín Aras

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