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Phillip
Warnell
Outlandish: Strange Foreign Bodies
FID Marseille Film Festival, July 2009.
Phillip
Warnell's new film, Outlandish: Strange Foreign Bodies, will receive
its world premiere in international competition at FIDMarseille film
festival, Marseille. 8 -13 July, 2009.
FIDMarseille
Philosopher and heart transplant recipient Jean-Luc
Nancy meditates on the history and integrity of bodies: their secrets,
their touching, their annihilation and strangeness, in Phillip Warnell’s
short film, Outlandish: Strange Foreign Bodies (19mins, 35mm).
The film presents a number of visual and literary passages, each exploring
the correlate between a textual narrative by Jean-Luc Nancy, his on
screen presence, a surgical organ in search of a body and an unaccounted
for, displaced invertebrate at sea.
~
The
Anxious Object, Phillip Warnell's Leverhulme Trust residency at Warwick
University.
Anxious object
The Girl with X-ray Eyes project publication is now available for purchase
from The Live Art Development Agency.
Unbound
Phillip
Warnell is currently Course Director of Film Production & Design
at Kingston University
Kingston University
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Phillip
Warnell is an inter-disciplinary artist
producing work that is balanced between perception, event and documentation.
Using the body as a sound or source image, it is distinguished by its
attention: to detail, to technique, to humour, to scrutiny, and to the
complex relationship between performance and the mediated image.
~
See
the Channel 4 News report on
Phillip Warnell from 2006
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Outlandish: Strange
Foreign Bodies- 35mm
film, 19mins. Film Stills. with the participation of Jean-Luc Nancy.
'A
body embodies: it isn’t a tautology. It is a subject predicating
its own essence.
If the soul is the body’s form, then the body is also the soul’s
impenetrability.
It is the soul’s hardness, substance, entrenchment. A soul without
entrenchment,
without rampart, vanishes soulless'. Strange
Foreign Bodies - JL
Nancy
The Girl with X-ray Eyes
- 35mm film, 23
mins. Photograph: Zhenia Sveshinsky
The
world of the shadowless person
The
power of science produces a sort of reaction of subjects, an almost
vital
refusal to let ourselves be reduced to its algorithms. Phillip Warnell's
film about
Natasha Demkina states that subjects cannot becomprehensively calculated.
Gérard Wajcman
Outlandish:Strange
Foreign Bodies - FID Marseille, July 2009
“Two dances echo each other, differ or
connect: one is the dance of language, of some ongoing
thought
incarnated in a body that is responsible for expressing it; and the
other is the dance of a
mute animal moving about like some code’s figures, trapped in
a transparent prison. Both dances
show in their own way the paths to a motionless odyssey.”
FID Director Jean-Pierre Rehm
Lydia Kavina plays The Girl with X-ray Eyes
Performing a live Theremin film accompaniment
composed by Vladimir Nikolaev,
June 2008. Photograph, Hana Vojackova
Under
glass, Introspection-Extramission
2008 solo exhibition. Archival 19th century
X-ray, 'Double-wedding' rings and photographic
images of The Girl with X-ray Eyes. Photograph, Zhenia Sveshinsky
The Girl with X-ray Eyes, Artists
publication, 2008
Containing film stills, an interview with Natasha Demkina,
production stills, exhibition images. With essays by Gérard
Wajcman
and Steven Connor. 96 pages. £10 + p&p
ISBN: 978-0-902683-87-7
NOW
AVAILABLE FROM UNBOUND, CORNERHOUSE, BFI BOOKSHOP, MATTS GALLERY
Placebo
(animal magnetism)
Solo exhibition at 300m3 gallery, Gothenburg, 2008. Photograph,
Hendrik Rylander.
Unseen
Footage
Performance
(with reproduction posing stand and modified 16mm projector) of
archival,
miniaturised and projected footage on the artists eye, 2006/7. Photograph,
Stéphanie Nava
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