UniversityUnderground — 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

UNIVERSITY OF THE UNDERGROUND: HORROR PROGRAMME

Lyndsey was a fellow in the 2021-2022 University of the Underground: Horror Programme led by artist Agi Haines. For the fellowship, Lyndsey’s research was titled “When Leaky Bodies Reek”, which sets out to examine societal fears surrounding disease and body horror through smell. The project features “EAU DE PARFUM” along with workshops on body odor and leakiness.

Accompanying “EAU DE PARFUM TMAU” is a podcast episode, “HORROR! / THE LEAKY BODY AND HORRIFIC OOZING” from the transdisciplinary research fellowship with the University of the Underground’s Horror Programme led by Agi Haines. The episode is produced by the Horror Programmes’ podcast production team, Ludovica Battista, Veronika Hanáková, and James Nola, featuring Agi Haines, Lyndsey Walsh, MIT scientist and leader of the Label Free Research Group, Dr. Andreas Mershin, and James Nola as the voice of Necro and Lyndsey Walsh as the voice of the Leaky Body Monster.

The project also features a workshop focused on the skill-sharing of olfactory material distillation techniques, discussing body surveillance through smell and notions of sickness and disease through smell.

The workshop component of this project has been performed in collaboration with the Bioart Society for their m/other becomings workshop program hosted by Marta de Menezes.

The Leaky Body workshop has also been performed in collaboration with the Berlin research group UniSysCat Cluster of Excellence at Mall Anders.

Online
2021-2022

Media made by Lyndsey as part of the University of the Underground: Horror Programme (slideshow).

“The Leaky Body” workshop at Mall Anders (2022) in Berlin, Germany.

Photo credit: Leo Fenster.

“The Leaky Body” workshop at Aalto Design Factory (2022) as part of BioArt Society’s m/other becomings workshop series led by Marta de Menezes (slideshow).

Photo credit: BioArt Society.

Fellowship collaboration credits:

Outside scientific consultation and interviewing has been conducted with Dr. Andreas Mershin, a research scientist at the Center for Bits and Atoms at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and leader of the Label Free Research Group. As of 2023, Dr. Mershin has retired from his position at MIT to RealNose.ai.

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