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Transplant - photographer Tim Wainwright and sound artist John Wynne 1/2
Transplant. Create in partnership with Waterford Healing Arts and Artlink.
Transplant is is a critically acclaimed art installation by photographer Tim Wainwright and sound artist John Wynne talk examining the issues surrounding heart and lung transplantation. A public talk with the two artists who created Transplant was held at Waterford Regional Hospital in April 2010.
Photographer Tim Wainwright and sound artist John Wynne spent a year as artists-in-residence at the Royal Brompton & Harefield, working with Victoria Hume, manager of the hospital’s own arts programme, rb&hArts. Funded by Arts Council England, they photographed and recorded patients, the devices they were attached to or had implanted in them, and the hospital environment.
Transplant comprised a large-scale photographic sound installation, and an accompanying DVD and book of critical essays. It documents the stories of patients waiting for a new heart or lungs, and those undergoing major surgery, at the world-renowned transplant unit at the Royal Brompton & Harefield in Middlesex.
Part One: Victoria Hume, Tim Wainwright and John Wynne discuss Transplant, introduced by Gordan Watson of the WHAT Centre for Arts & Health.
Part Two: Q&A with Victoria Hume, Tim Wainwright and John Wynne. Concluding remarks by Gordan Watson.Victoria Hume, Tim Wainwright and John Wynne discuss Transplant
Recording Date: 27-Apr-2010
Running Time: 27 minutes 51 seconds
