Lyndsey Walsh

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Photograph of the artist Lyndsey Walsh, cropped in a circular shape with a blue tint. Lyndsey has dark brown hair and pale white skin. The artist is looking directly at the camera.
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Lyndsey Walsh

Lyndsey Walsh is an artist, writer, and researcher based in Berlin, DE. Lyndsey’s practice fuses speculative narratives and horror with autoethnographic investigations into the ruptures created by technology in the corporality of culture. Lyndsey sets out to question the cultural binaries of human-non-human, diseased-healthy, and life-machine using Crip, Queer, and intersectional feminist frameworks. Currently, Lyndsey is the first and only residing artist of the Department of Experimental Biophysics at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Their work has been featured in events and with institutions such as Frieze Art Week New York, the Humboldt Forum, the Ural Biennial, the Berlin Biennale, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Transmediale/CTM, and more.

Sessions

Queer Mutants: Modes to Cultivate Genetic Resistance

Lyndsey Walsh

Summary
How can mutational and queer identities cultivate resistance to genetic fatalism and gender bias at the dawn of the emerging genetic era? This talk unravels the creative project Self-Care and its interventions, as a framework to rearticulate notions of care toward embodied differences.
Care
Health
Feminism
Stage 10
Talk
English
Conference

Artist Talk Lyndsey Walsh

Lyndsey Walsh

Summary
The rise of genetic testing is rapidly changing the ways both society and medical professionals think about diseases. Self-Care sets out to reclaim bodily autonomy in light of prevailing notions of genetic fatalism and medical surveillance regarding Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome.
Feminism
Home Base
Conversation
English
Conference