Unbearable. Lyndsey Walsh

Lyndsey Walsh proposes to examine the history, present, and potential futures of reproductive technologies and so-called reproductive organs, while challenging the doomed narrative of “breeding” that has condemned many and cost countless lives. Building off their speculative “unbearable organs” that blur the boundaries between male and female while also escaping binary censorship of digital regimes, Lyndsey will unfold the history of care, systemic violence, and possible futures of material potential that so-called “reproductive organs” find themselves at the mercy of, extending beyond national borders and intersecting with global issues of healthcare, systemic racism and classism, ableism, sexism, and more. Weaving in their own autoethnographic narrative, Lyndsey will performatively read a new recipe that have inherited from their mother on Lyndsey’s own conception for how to make a rainbow baby (a baby born after miscarriage), exploring how abortive technologies and assistive reproductive technologies are used to have child in artificial contexts.

This conference is part of the OpenLAB of LAB 4: Weird Futures in collaboration with Error 417 Expectation Failed Foundation.

Lyndsey Walsh is an artist, writer, and researcher based in Berlin, Germany. Lyndsey’s practice sets out to “undoom narrative” by questioning the cultural binaries of human-non-human, diseased-healthy, and life-machine using Crip, Queer, and intersectional feminist frameworks. 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, and Transmediale/CTM and has received the S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 Honorary Mention.