| 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 |