Unbearable NFT — 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

UNBEARABLE: PART 01

“Unbearable” attempts to queer so-called “reproductive” organs and, by embodying the words of the author Yuknavitch, free them from their service of breeding. “Unbearable” sets loose an unruly and technologically mediated imagination to explore how these organs could mutate and transform beyond reproductive narratives and the stories history has attached to them.

In its first production, Unbearable is a series of non-binary organs that have been created through the use of image-to-image generative AI models trained on available visual data about the anatomy and morphology of so-called “female” reproductive organs. The Unbearable research process has concluded that imagery of these organs is heavily censored in both scientific/medical sources and online image sources, with non-human organs often referenced or left misleadingly unlabeled as stand-in models. This finding follows consistent cultural research conclusions about non-male bodies being rendered and understood through the lens of the non-human in medicine and society.

By training image-to-image generative AI models, “Unbearable” started as a creative exploration into how technology, through an exploration of the glitches made by digital and societal/cultural bias, could be integrated into a speculative process of imagining other modes of being, outside of binary thinking and reproduction.

The resulting organs are a collection of emerging specimens, generating new possibilities that challenge binary notions of sex and gender, and the role reproduction has played in limiting the accessibility of healthcare and the development of technology supporting reproductive autonomy.

“Unbearable” has been generated and regenerated as a frictional practice of resistance against the doomed narrative of “breeding” and its many technoscientific and digital mutations. As a frictional practice, “Unbearable” is an attempt to answer the call of Lidia Yuknavitch’s novel “Thrust” to “wreck the wrong world back to life”.

The current direction of the ongoing “Unbearable” project seeks to explore how digital technologies can be used to challenge and resist technofascism in relation to reproductive autonomy and access to healthcare.

2022-2024

Unbearable installation at Untitled Space New York, part of Frieze Art Week New York, curated by Dr. Margarita Kuleva for the exhibition “One Night Between Heaven and Hell” (slideshow).

Photography credit: TAEX

Unbearable NFT Collection, TAEX, 2024 (slideshow).

“Unbearable” specimen numbers 199400001-199400005 have been commissioned and supported by TAEX, an interdisciplinary platform for Crypto Art, and curated by Dr. Margarita Kuleva. The work debuted with Frieze Art Week New York at the Unititled Space Gallery in Soho and it has publicly drop as an NFT collection exclusively with TAEX in March of 2024.

“Unbearable” is available for purchase exclusively with TAEX here.

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