Further dissemination and recognition
TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS
Presentation and workshop at London Science Museum Late, October 21, 2020 (postponed to February 24, 2021, because of covid-19).
Invited speaker at Deconstructing Donation conference, City, University of London, June 19, 2020 (postponed due to covid-19)
Presentation at Sutured Selves, in Representing of the Medical Body, Science Museum, London, March 28, 2019
Invited speaker and workshop leader at annual meeting for heart transplant recipients, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, November 24, 2018
Art, Materiality and Representation, Royal Anthropological Institute, British Museum, London, June 1–3, 2018
The Heart Project Workshop, organiser and speaker (two-day workshop), Winchester Gallery, April 25–26, 2018
The Heart Project Symposium, organiser and speaker, London Gallery West, November 23, 2017
Hybrid Bodies talk, London Laser 23, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, October 18, 2017
Invited speaker and mentor at 9 Evenings Revisited, a week-long art/science workshop, KKW, Leipzig, April 11–15, 2016
BBC Radio 4‚ interview in ‘Print Me a New Body’, May 28, 2017 and June 5, 2017
ARTICLES CONNECTED TO THE PROJECT
Hatzi, V I, ‘Increasing awareness of heart transplantation through socially engaged art practices from selected artists of MEDinART’, JACC (American College of Cardiology Journals) Case Reports, Vol 1, No 3, October 2019 pp 457-6.
Poole, J, Shildrick, M, Abbey, S, Bachmann, I, Carnie, A, Dal Bo, D, De Luca, E, El-Sheikh, T, Jan, E, McKeever, P, Wright, A, Ross, H, ‘Donor Family and Recipient Anonymity: Time for Change’, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation Vol 38, No 4 (S92-S93), April 2019
| Creators | Wright, A. |
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| Description | In 2017, Wright was awarded an AHRC Research Network grant to bring an interdisciplinary study into the effects of heart transplantation on donors’ families that originated in Canada to the UK for the first time. The Network grant enabled Wright to develop a wider interdisciplinary network, enabling further insights into the effects of heart transplantation on recipients and donor families. Key questions asked include: How might art act as a bridge between the experience of heart-donor families and medical professionals? What forms and methods of artistic practice are most appropriate in this context? What are the implications of considering organ transplant as a form of inter-corporeality? Through exhibitions, symposia, workshops and other activities, the project shows that as well as blurring the boundaries between self and other, organ transplantation has deep implications for our understanding of the relation between death and “staying alive”. Recipients of donor organs often find the experience of surviving an otherwise certain death is fraught with complex emotions about the relationship between the self and the now dead other, while donor families understandably wish to see the donor living on in another. Through art, Wright and collaborators found that they could tackle these emotive aspects of transplantation that resist verbal or textual communication in new and accessible ways. Comparison between Canada and UK transplant regulations led to new insights on future policy. |
| Portfolio items | Messy entanglements: research assemblages in heart transplantation discourses and practices |
| Hybrid Bodies at KKW | |
| Hybrid Bodies | |
| Heart of the Matter | |
| Cadenza | |
| BBC Radio 4: interview and excerpts of audio from Heart of the Matter in Print Me A new Body programme | |
| The Heart Project (exhibition and symposium) | |
| Cut | |
| Not Gone Not Forgotten | |
| Still Live | |
| Heart of the Matter - The Flesh of the World | |
| Heart of the Matter PHI exhibition | |
| Heart of the Matter - Crafting Anatomies | |
| Hybrid Bodies laser talk | |
| When Words Fail, an interdisciplinary investigation into the phenomenological effects of heart transplantation | |
| Hybrid Bodies Chiasma Exhibition | |
| Sutured Selves, Remapping the Boundaries between our bodies, our selves and our kin | |
| Art/Sci Nexus, 9 Evenings Revisited | |
| Papworth Hospital Heart Transplant Recipient Workshop | |
| Parallax, a story in two parts | |
| Hybrid Minds, Hybrid Bodies | |
| Object Stories | |
| Donor Family and Recipient Anonymity: Time for Change | |
| Year | 2014 |
| Publisher | University of Westminster |
| Web address (URL) | http://www.hybridbodiesproject.com |
| Keywords | collaboration; interdisciplinary; art science |
| CREAM Portfolio | |
| Funder | AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council) |
| Arts Council England | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.34737/qqw60 |
