Hybrid Bodies Network - An artist-led interdisciplinary study into the effects of heart transplantation on donor families

Hybrid Bodies Network - 一项由艺术家主导的跨学科研究，研究心脏移植对捐赠者家庭的影响

• 批准号: AH/R001677/1
• 负责人: Alexa Wright
• 金额: $ 3.83万
• 依托单位: University of Westminster
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FR001677%2F1
• 关键词: Hybrid; Bodies; Network; artist; led

Since the first successful operation in 1967, heart transplantation has become an almost routine form of surgery. Yet whilst significant bio-scientific research has been conducted into the procedure and its medical outcomes, there has been very little research into the emotional and psychological impact of transplantation on the families of deceased donors. On a broader level, organ transplantation signifies a shift in the way the body is viewed, raising questions around bodily boundaries, identity, and new non-biological kinship relationships. The Principal and Co-Investigators are part of a long term international, interdisciplinary research project based in Toronto, Canada looking at the psycho-social effects of heart transplantation. The study, which is currently focused on better understanding the experience of heart donor families, is unique in that it brings together medics, visual artists, a philosopher and social scientists to study transplantation from multiple, interwoven perspectives with the aim of understanding the procedure within a broad social and psychological context. The proposed Hybrid Bodies UK network will bring collaborators involved in this existing group into dialogue with relevant UK-based artists, scientists, theorists and medical professionals with the aim of involving some of these new partners in establishing an artist-led UK base for our project. In October 2017 we will hold a work in progress exhibition in London of artworks made by the three artists in the GOLA team. Each of these artists has extensive experience of making work that traverses the boundaries between art and science. They currently have access to the research findings of the scientific partners in Canada and to records of the personal experiences of donor family members there. Exploring issues of identity, embodiment, affect and kinship, they will continue to work closely with Dr. Ross and Dr. Shildrick to create work informed and inspired by this phenomenological research material. The exhibition and an accompanying half-day symposium will be for an invited audience of heart donor families, artists, medical scientists, and others with an interest in organ donation. The artists and (where possible) other members of the existing team will be present for the duration of the exhibition, where the artworks will act as a focal point for dialogue. While the artworks share a common starting point, each of the three artists will produce a separate work. They will liaise with Curator, Hannah Redler to ensure that relationships between the exhibited works are strong and the exhibition is cohesive, allowing space for the artworks to mutate and change in response to feedback. In March 2018 we will hold a two-day workshop at University of Southampton that brings together existing members of the group with new members recruited at the initial exhibition for a more in-depth practical exchange of experience, ideas and practices facilitated through activities such as small group work, structured interdisciplinary Q&A sessions, panel discussions and presentations from different disciplinary standpoints. This program of events will enable us to share both our existing innovative interdisciplinary working methods and our insight into some of the disruptive and emotionally disturbing aspects of heart transplantation with interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners in the UK. Channeled through visual and media arts, our ongoing research will explore the complexities of organ transplantation in a novel way. Using artworks in development as a focal point, we aim to entangle new research from the arts, biosciences and humanities without privileging any one discourse. Broadening the reach of our existing collaboration to facilitate exchange between researchers working in two different cultural contexts (Canada/UK) will lead to richer alternative avenues for new understandings, knowledge translation and outreach in both countries.

自从1967年第一例成功的心脏移植手术以来，心脏移植已经成为一种几乎常规的手术形式。然而，尽管对移植手术及其医疗结果进行了大量的生物科学研究，但很少有研究涉及移植对已故捐赠者家属的情感和心理影响。在更广泛的层面上，器官移植意味着人们看待身体的方式发生了转变，提出了关于身体边界、身份和新的非生物亲属关系的问题。主要研究者和合作研究者是加拿大多伦多一个长期国际跨学科研究项目的一部分，该项目旨在研究心脏移植的心理社会影响。这项研究目前专注于更好地了解心脏供体家庭的经验，其独特之处在于它汇集了医务人员，视觉艺术家，哲学家和社会科学家，从多个相互交织的角度研究移植，旨在了解广泛的社会和心理背景下的程序。拟议中的英国混合体网络将使参与现有团体的合作者与相关的英国艺术家，科学家，理论家和医学专业人士进行对话，目的是让这些新合作伙伴中的一些人参与建立一个由艺术家领导的英国基地。2017年10月，我们将在伦敦举办一场由GOLA团队的三位艺术家创作的作品展。这些艺术家中的每一个都有丰富的经验，使作品跨越艺术和科学之间的界限。他们目前可以获得加拿大科学伙伴的研究成果，以及那里的捐赠者家庭成员的个人经历记录。探索身份，体现，影响和亲属关系的问题，他们将继续与罗斯博士和Shildrick博士密切合作，创造工作知情，并受到这种现象学研究材料的启发。展览和半天的研讨会将邀请心脏捐赠家庭、艺术家、医学科学家和其他对器官捐赠感兴趣的人参加。艺术家和（如果可能的话）现有团队的其他成员将在展览期间在场，艺术品将作为对话的焦点。虽然艺术品有着共同的起点，但三位艺术家将各自创作一件作品。他们将与策展人Hannah Redler保持联系，以确保展出作品之间的关系牢固，展览具有凝聚力，允许艺术品根据反馈进行变异和变化。2018年3月，我们将在南安普顿大学举办为期两天的研讨会，将小组现有成员与首次展览招募的新成员聚集在一起，通过小组工作，结构化跨学科问答会议，小组讨论和来自不同学科立场的演讲等活动，更深入地交流经验，想法和实践。该活动计划将使我们能够与英国的跨学科研究人员和从业者分享我们现有的创新跨学科工作方法以及我们对心脏移植的一些破坏性和情绪困扰方面的见解。通过视觉和媒体艺术，我们正在进行的研究将以一种新颖的方式探索器官移植的复杂性。以发展中的艺术品为焦点，我们的目标是从艺术、生物科学和人文科学中挖掘新的研究，而不涉及任何一种话语。扩大我们现有合作的范围，以促进在两种不同文化背景下（加拿大/英国）工作的研究人员之间的交流，将为两国的新理解，知识翻译和推广提供更丰富的替代途径。