Installed on Level 4 of the Xavier building, in a large waiting room area adjacent to the main escalators and elevators, and just down the corridor from the Heart and Lung Centre, this was the first presentation of The Heart Library Project in a hospital.
Visitors to the Heart Library Project came from across the hospital community, from patients and their families, to nurses, pastoral care workers and cleaning staff, and we where able to record over fifty experience-maps over the twelve days of the exhibition. The exhibition provided us with the opportunity to experience the work in a public hospital settings – to assess public responses to the work in this context, and provide a basis for further hospital-based work.
The exhibition was a produced in partnership with the St. Vincent’s Campus Arts Committee and dLuxMediaArts, with funding from an Australia Council Inter-Arts Office Research & Development Project grant.
Level 4, Xavier Building, St. Vincent’s Public Hospital,
Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia
July 7th – 19th, 2009
Tuesday to Sunday, 10am – 5pm, Thursdays, 10am – 7pm-
Credits
George Poonkhin Khut: Concept, art direction and sound David Morris-Oliveros: Computer programming – visuals Jason McSweeney: Computer programming – analysis Caitlin Newton-Broad: Concept development and prototyping Annie Laerkesen: Exhibition technical production Frank Maguire: Heart-sensor fabrication Kaeko Tanigawa: Design consultant and fabrication assistant Naomi Derrick & Julia Landrey: Body-mapping interviews
Backround – St. Vincent’s Campus Art Committee
The St Vincent’s Campus Art Committee’s was established in 2003 with an aim to consider, develop and promote the application of the humanities with a strong emphasis on fine arts within St Vincent’s Hospitals. St Vincent’s Campus Art Program manages a permanent collection of artworks exhibited throughout our buildings, together with two changing exhibition spaces on Xavier levels 3 and 4. At St Vincent’s, paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, ceramics and sculpture enliven the walls and the spaces of public areas and wards – embodying the hospitals commitment to duty of care, to the whole patient. All funding for the art program has been raised privately from individuals and organisations. The Campus Art Committee is comprised of volunteer representatives from across the hospital, business and arts community. The Heart Library Project builds on this work – extending the scope of their exhibition portfolio into the areas of live art and interactive media.
Acknowledgements
The Heart Library Project: St. Vincent’s has been generously supported by the following organisations and individuals: the Australian Government through the Australia Council its arts funding and advisory body; dLux Media Arts; The St. Vincent’s Campus Art Committee; Yulla Foods; Fraser Studios and Queen Street Studios; UTS Gallery; UTS Creativity & Cognition Studios; Lizzie Muller & Kathy Cleland; Campbelltown Arts Centre; Lisa Colley and The Arts & Health Foundation; Bill & George Studio, Redfern; and Totugua Studios, St. Peters.
Special thanks to David Morris-Oliveros and Jason McSweeney for their patience and generosity; Katarina Cvitcovic, Kim Vaughan and Garry Nicholls for making this exhibition possible in the first place; and all the volunteers who have helped to realise this project: Rhys Cumpstone, Naomi Derrick, Kaeko Tanigawa, Steve Evans, Somaya Langley, Bec Dean, Kate de Mare, Julianne Campbell, Khahien Hyunh and Sam James.
The Heart Library: St. Vincent’s
Installed on Level 4 of the Xavier building, in a large waiting room area adjacent to the main escalators and elevators, and just down the corridor from the Heart and Lung Centre, this was the first presentation of The Heart Library Project in a hospital.
Visitors to the Heart Library Project came from across the hospital community, from patients and their families, to nurses, pastoral care workers and cleaning staff, and we where able to record over fifty experience-maps over the twelve days of the exhibition. The exhibition provided us with the opportunity to experience the work in a public hospital settings – to assess public responses to the work in this context, and provide a basis for further hospital-based work.
The exhibition was a produced in partnership with the St. Vincent’s Campus Arts Committee and dLuxMediaArts, with funding from an Australia Council Inter-Arts Office Research & Development Project grant.
Level 4, Xavier Building, St. Vincent’s Public Hospital,
Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia
July 7th – 19th, 2009
Tuesday to Sunday, 10am – 5pm, Thursdays, 10am – 7pm-
Credits
George Poonkhin Khut: Concept, art direction and sound
David Morris-Oliveros: Computer programming – visuals
Jason McSweeney: Computer programming – analysis
Caitlin Newton-Broad: Concept development and prototyping
Annie Laerkesen: Exhibition technical production
Frank Maguire: Heart-sensor fabrication
Kaeko Tanigawa: Design consultant and fabrication assistant
Naomi Derrick & Julia Landrey: Body-mapping interviews
Backround – St. Vincent’s Campus Art Committee
The St Vincent’s Campus Art Committee’s was established in 2003 with an aim to consider, develop and promote the application of the humanities with a strong emphasis on fine arts within St Vincent’s Hospitals. St Vincent’s Campus Art Program manages a permanent collection of artworks exhibited throughout our buildings, together with two changing exhibition spaces on Xavier levels 3 and 4. At St Vincent’s, paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, ceramics and sculpture enliven the walls and the spaces of public areas and wards – embodying the hospitals commitment to duty of care, to the whole patient. All funding for the art program has been raised privately from individuals and organisations. The Campus Art Committee is comprised of volunteer representatives from across the hospital, business and arts community. The Heart Library Project builds on this work – extending the scope of their exhibition portfolio into the areas of live art and interactive media.
Acknowledgements
The Heart Library Project: St. Vincent’s has been generously supported by the following organisations and individuals: the Australian Government through the Australia Council its arts funding and advisory body; dLux Media Arts; The St. Vincent’s Campus Art Committee; Yulla Foods; Fraser Studios and Queen Street Studios; UTS Gallery; UTS Creativity & Cognition Studios; Lizzie Muller & Kathy Cleland; Campbelltown Arts Centre; Lisa Colley and The Arts & Health Foundation; Bill & George Studio, Redfern; and Totugua Studios, St. Peters.
Special thanks to David Morris-Oliveros and Jason McSweeney for their patience and generosity; Katarina Cvitcovic, Kim Vaughan and Garry Nicholls for making this exhibition possible in the first place; and all the volunteers who have helped to realise this project: Rhys Cumpstone, Naomi Derrick, Kaeko Tanigawa, Steve Evans, Somaya Langley, Bec Dean, Kate de Mare, Julianne Campbell, Khahien Hyunh and Sam James.
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