Transforming the waiting room

Kin, an audio project based around interviews with mothers, fathers and their adult children, transforms the mood in the waiting room Listen to an extract from the Kin project It was while she was sitting in a succession of health centre waiting rooms with one or other of her parents that Donna Rutherford first got the idea for an artistic collaboration with the NHS. Struck by the changing relationship between parent and child as both age, Rutherford, a 41-year-old Glasgow artist, developed Kin , an audio project based around interviews with mothers, fathers and their adult children, and broadcast via listening posts set up in health centres and hospitals around Glasgow. Rutherford conducted the interviews with the help of volunteers and edited them into a 37-minute programme that touches on issues of loss, guilt, love and memory as both generations find their roles and relationships beginning to shift. The conversations are often humorous, and at times heartbreaking. A father recalling his daughter dancing on his feet, a mother’s admission that she hopes to “erase” herself before her death so the impact on those

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