24.10.14 – 23.01.15
BLOOD
Our human preoccupation with blood runs deep, and as a species we’ve had plenty of time to prod and poke, paint and proselytise about blood. So what remains? What mystery persists about blood, and how does this exhibition probe it? Why are we still interested in blood?
Curators
Jens Hauser - Paris based curator , writer, journalist and film maker
Shaun McCann - Professor Emeritus of Haematology and Academic Medicine at St James’ Hospital and Trinity College Dublin and BLOOD Curator
Luke O'Neill - Immunologist, Academic Director of Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Chair of Biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin, and BLOOD Curator
Clemens Ruthner - Professor of German and European Studies, Director of Research at the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies at TCD, and BLOOD Curator
Lynn Scarff - Ex-Director, Science Gallery Dublin
Highlights
Exhibits
Woof Woof is an ongoing work started in early 2014, a revisiting of images and iconography that the artist has been living with and has created and appropriated as his own language.
The Irish Blood Transfusion Service’s (IBTS) primary responsibility is the provision of blood and blood products for human patients in Ireland…
The idea of ‘The Other’ is a sort of black box into which every era projects its collective angst and desire…
The Swarm is an encaustic mixed media painting. Encaustic painting is an ancient technique that involves heating wax until it is liquid and adding pigments for colour.
At the end of World War II the Allied Forces tried to ban the publication of the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales in Germany.
This video shows bone marrow stem cells being taken from a donor to use in a stem cell transplant (SCT) for a recipient with leukaemia (a type of blood cancer).
Robert McDonnell was a prominent Irish surgeon in the 1800s…
Hermann Nitsch developed the Theatre of Orgies and Mysteries in the mid-1950s…
Pulse Index is a biometric installation that records participant fingerprints at the same time as their heart rates.
PERFECTLY N AND NOT AN I is a video piece created as part of a broader collaboration between visual artist Paul Cronly and scholar Maria Parsons.
During BLOOD, patients in the National Stem Cell Transplant Unit at St James’ Hospital in Dublin will be ‘virtually’ present in Science Gallery Dublin using a telepresence robot called a ‘Double’.
A horse, is hybridised with the human body through an injection of horse’s blood
Lumitrace is an animated sculpture where luminol is dripped onto a human form made of blood and resin.
Lover is a triptych the artist decided to create in the aftermath of a lifesaving organ transplant operation performed on his partner in 2010/2011.
Prior to 1970, haemolytic disease of the newborn was a significant cause of perinatal mortality and morbidity…
Dual Blood Collecting Device is a speculative work that recalls past times, when blood was deeply related to the instruments used to collect it.
This text-based work compiles all of the blood references appearing in chapter eighteen of Ulysses.
Blood Jukebox is an interactive installation that runs on the pulse readings of the visitor.
Blood is Thicker Than Water is a typographic mural made using paint, markers and some of the artists’ blood, sweat and tears.