28.02.2019 - 12.05.2019

SPARE PARTS:
RETHINKING HUMAN REPAIR

The SPARE PARTS season explored the art, science, ethics and technology that enables human repair and alteration. It considered the emotional and psychological aspects of living with a replacement organ or limb; organic or engineered.

Developed alongside scientists from King’s College London, the free exhibition and accompanying events programme invited visitors to question whether ‘spare parts’ can exist outside the biological body, or whether our bodies can be a sum of independent parts that are regenerated, enhanced, donated or altered.

The SPARE PARTS lead image

Exhibits

New Organs of Creation

Circles of Fire (variations)

Crafting the Body

Vessels of Care and Control: Compostcubator 2.0

Vessels of Care and Control: The Hivecubator 2.0

Listening Objects

Disturbance

Big Heart Data

The Self-Donor Workshop

Prosthesis – Simulation kit of externalised human brain tissue

The Anatomy Lesson: Dissecting Medical Futures

Monument to Immortality

Ghost Writer

Microbiome Rebirth Incubator

Birds I wouldn't have heard

Life Pulse

Highlights

Curatorial Panel

Curator Producer

Stephanie Delcroix

Curatorial Advisors

Robert Lechler - Vice Principal / Provost (Health), King’s College London and Executive Director, King’s Health Partners

Fiona Watt - Director, Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, King’s College, London

Oron Catts - Director of SymbioticA, the Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, University of Western Australia

Annie Cattrell - Visual artist and Tutor at the Royal College of Art