Ways of doing things

Ways of doings things is a participatory public engagement project commissioned by Wellcome Sanger, produced by Cambridge Junction and funded by a Wellcome Enrichment grant. Made in response to the work of the Human Cell Atlas, Ways of doing things uses dance and moving image practice to provoke thought about issues of consent, donation, and the significance of pattern in both art and science. Responding to the complex issue of tissue donation, the project involved a year-long series of movement workshops, public talks, interviews and conversations with both members of the public and Human Cell Atlas researchers. A significant part of this research involved the artist working intensively for six months with people who are experts in giving and receiving; one, a group of transplant recipients and the other, a group of young care-givers.

What emerged from this long-term creative engagement is a series of interconnected artworks that include: an online one-to-one performance, a moving image artwork, a zine, a screendance documenting the artist’s time working with young carers and an interactive online collection of people’s hand movements - see Collected Ways of doing things. Collectively, these works explore giving and receiving and the movement of consent.

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