What can artists contribute to helping understand heart transplant patients and what they go through? That’s part of what is at the centre of a collaboration and exploration by a heart transplant team in Toronto, a philosopher, and four artists.
On Wednesday (January 22), the multi-year collaboration will open under the title “Hybrid Bodies” at Montreal’s PHI Centre.
Two Canadian artists, Ingrid Bachmann and Catherine Richards, and two UK artists Andrew Carnie and Alexa Wright, will show works that were inspired by the experiences of heart transplant patients and the information received from the Toronto medical team.
The medical team includes Dr. Heather Ross, a cardiologist and Director of the Cardiac Transplant Program at the University Health Network in Toronto, Dr. Patricia McKeever, a health sociologist, Dr. Susan Abbey, a transplant psychiatrist , Dr. Jennifer Poole, a health scientist, and philosopher Dr. Margrit Shildrick, of the Linkoping University in Sweden.
More information:
Hybrid Bodies project website – www.hybridbodiesproject.com
PHI Centre, Hybrid Bodies exhibition information – here
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