Transplant: Video Installation

Video installation with photographer Tim Wainwright
· Gallery 1313, Toronto, 2008
· ZKM, Sound as a Medium of Art, Germany, 2012–13
· The Patient, UNSW Galleries, Sydney, Australia, 2016

Video from the Transplant publication

Transplant video installation, The Patient, UNSW Galleries, Sydney, 2016

A video installation of Transplant was part of The Patient, a compelling exhibition exploring the human experience of illness, disease and ultimately death. It showed at UNSW Galleries in Sydney, Australia in 2016 before touring the country for two years. Curated by Rebecca Dean, the exhibition examines the representation of medical patients in contemporary art and artists themselves as medical subjects through a wide range of media including video, installation, performance and virtual reality works by 18 leading artists from six countries.

“Fearless, funny, painfully beautiful and unlovely” — the exhibition aims to examine the ways artists engage with powerful human experiences in the fields of health, biological science and medicine. “The artists in this exhibition deepen our own enquiries into the actual stuff of illness and disease, death and life – how they manifest viscerally and psychologically as well as socially and politically.” Rebecca Dean, curator

Artists participating in The Patient exhibition: Ingrid Bachmann (Canada), John A Douglas (Australia), Brenton Heath-Kerr (Aus), Carol Jerrems (Aus), Eugenie Lee (Korea/Aus), David McDiarmid (Aus), Helen Pynor (Aus/UK), Jo Spence (UK), ORLAN (France), John Wynne (Can/UK) & Tim Wainwright (Aus/UK), Bob Flanagan & Sheree Rose (US), and Guy Ben-Ary (US/Aus) with Nathan Thompson, Andrew Fitch, Douglas Bakkum, Stuart Hodgetts, Mike Edel.

Transplant video installation, Gallery 1313, Toronto, 2008

Installation at Gallery 1313, Toronto

Transplant at ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Germany

At ZKM, Germany