083286/Z/07/Z: Transplant

Project description:Transplant will explore the details of transplantation, considering issues and practices across a range of disciplines, addressing cultural, medical and associated philosophical concerns. On average, 15 major organs are circulated in the UK everyday. Providing a visible and tangible form for this process, the project will reveal the unfolding circumstances of medical intervention exploring several themes - surgical intervention; guest/host relationships; organic interchange and embodied intimacy; liminal states and transit - which, taken together, broadly consider perceptions of reconfigured bodies. A film work, publication, and national, real-time 'dataspace' and installation will result, detailing the human organ gift, its procurement and carriage.

Grant Holder:Mr Phillip Warnell

Organisation:University of Warwick

Grant type:Large Arts Awards

Financial year:006/2007