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Outlandish: Strange Foreign Bodies

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 (20mins, 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.


An article on Phillip Warnell's films, Outlandish and The Girl with X-ray Eyes, by Andrea Lissoni entitled: 'The Meaning of the world outside the world', features in the current issue of 'Mousse contemporary art magazine' No. 22. Feb 2010.
Mousse

South London Gallery
The UK premiere of Outlandish will take place at The South London Gallery, London on November 17th, 2010 (with a publication launch and discussion). The event will be from 7-9pm. Details to follow.
South London Gallery

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Phillip Warnell performed Endo-Ecto in Copenhagen at the Medical Museion on September 13th, 2009. Featuring a live capsule endoscopy, Endo-Ecto was the first public, real-time staging of a journey through the gastro-intestinal tract, complete with its title swallowed in letter form. Endo-Ecto is featured in a forthcoming Thames & Hudson edition - Art & Science Now: How scientific research and technological innovation are becoming key to 21st century aesthetics.
Art & Science Now

"Don’t miss the chance to take a few uncomfortable minutes out of your time to absorb the envelope-pusher Phillip Warnell’s gastro intestinal system on display as a rare exploratory insight for the non-medical lay person."
Bluff Journal exhibition review 2010

The Anxious Object, Phillip Warnell's Leverhulme Trust residency at Warwick University. 08-09.
Anxious object

The Girl with X-ray Eyes project publication is available for purchase from The Live Art Development Agency.
Unbound

Phillip Warnell is contributing to a Monokl issue and conference dedicated to Jean-Luc Nancy in 2010.
Monokl

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Phillip Warnell is Associate Artist at the Medical Museion, Copenhagen University.
Medical Museion

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Phillip Warnell from 2006
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The Meaning of the World Outside the World - Feature on Phillip Warnell's films, Mousse No. 22, 2010, Andrea Lissoni

"Phillip Warnell explores a shifting world whose different planes intersect, collide, and sometimes collapse.
A world that to him is full of surprises, and to those who enter it, fascinating, and infused with hidden poetry. A world
that - though focused on phenomena that are ancient or contemporary, extra-sensory or scientific, invisible or shrouded in
darkness as they may be - above all generates figures who require no footnotes."


 

 



Outlandish: Strange Foreign Bodies - 35mm film, 20mins. With Jean-Luc Nancy. Photograph © phillip warnell, 2009

'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


Outlandish:Strange Foreign Bodies - FID Marseille, 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

 


The Girl with X-ray Eyes
- 35mm film, 23 mins. Photographs: 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

 




Lydia Kavina plays The Girl with X-ray Eyes

Performing a live Theremin film accompaniment composed for the film by Vladimir Nikolaev,
June 2008. Photograph, Hana Vojackova

 


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
Translucent dust jacket
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

 


Sensors on the abdominal wall
In exhibition at Arlington Arts Centre, Washington DC, 2010
Video object/Installation. Photograph by Lisa McCarty