Key facts
Multicomponent output consisting of exhibitions of artworks; a co-authored published article; a single-authored book chapter
ROLE
Artist, researcher, co-author, author
EXHIBITION VENUES
Heart of the Matter in Hybrid Bodies, Phi Centre, Montreal, January 23– March 15, 2014
Heart of the Matter in The Flesh of the World, Justina M Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto Art Centre, June 25 – October 10, 2015
Heart of the Matter in Crafting Anatomies, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, January 7– February 4, 2015
Heart of the Matter and Cadenza in Hybrid Bodies, KunstKraftWerk, Leipzig, September 18 –26, 2016
Heart of the Matter and Cadenza in Hybrid Bodies, London Gallery West, October 20 – November 16, 2017
Hybrid Bodies, Phase II: Chiasma, Winchester Gallery, Hampshire, April 14 –27, 2018
Cut, Not Gone, Not Forgotten, Still Live and Object Stories in Hybrid Minds/Hybrid Bodies, Concordia University Gallery, August 8 –9, 2019
Journal article
‘Messy entanglements: research assemblages in heart transplantation discourses and practices’ in Shildrick, M, McKeever, P, Abbey, S, Poole, J, Wright, A, Bachmann, I, Carnie, A, Ross, H, Jan, E, De Luca, E, Dal Bo, D, and El-Sheikh, T, BMJ Medical Humanities, Vol 44 (1), 2018, pp 46-54
Book chapter
‘Parallax, a story in two parts’ in El-Sheikh, T (ed), Entangled Bodies, Art, Identity and Intercorporeality, Vernon Press (2020), pp 45-58
FUNDING
Arts Council / British Council Artists’ International Development Fund, 2016 – £5,000
AHRC Research Network Award 2017–18 (AH/R001677/1) – £30,036
| 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 |
