Transplant

Transplant is a large-scale photographic sound installation. Photographer Tim Wainwright and sound artist John Wynne have produced this thought-provoking and unique work after spending a year as artists-in-residence at Harefield Hospital, one of the world’s leading centres for heart and lung transplantation. Funded by Arts Council England and working with rb&hArts, they photographed and recorded patients, the devices they were attached to or had implanted in them, and the hospital itself.

Transplant is also a book, edited by Victoria Hume, comprising a collection of essays with a wide range of perspectives on the Transplant project and the wider issues it raises. It includes a 35-minute DVD by John Wynne and Tim Wainwright.

A related output is Hearts, Lungs and Minds, a half-hour composed documentary, commissioned for BBC Radio 3. More information is available at: http://www.sensitivebrigade.com and /Hearts,Lungs&Minds.htm http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/709/.

Wynne and Wainwright presented Transplant at a variety of conferences and symposia, including
- a public lecture and day-long CPD event for CREATE, Ireland’s national development agency for the collaborative arts, Waterford Healing Arts, Artlink
- Listening to the Malfunctioning Body at It's Not What You Think: Communicating Medical Materialities at the Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen
- the Association for Medical Humanities 8th Annual Conference, 11th - 13th July 2011, Leicester
- Collaborations, a symposium with photographers and artists using photography whose practice embraces collaboration with the subjects of their work, at London College of Communication

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