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The
Girl with X-ray Eyes.
International Premiere
Selected for the International and First Film competitions at The
International Documentary Film Festival, Marseille
2
- 7 July, 2008
FID
Marseille
Phillip
Warnell will present the film in person in Marseille on July 4th,
5th & 6th.
The
Girl with X-ray Eyes project publication will shortly be available
for purchase from The Live Art Development Agency.
Unbound
Hear
Phillip Warnell on The Girl with X-ray Eyes, Cafe Artistique talk,
Portsmouth, 2008
AxisWeb
Hear
Lydia Kavina's discussion on her work, the theremin and The Girl with
X-ray Eyes on
Midweek
BBC Radio 4, 4th June.
Solo
exhibition, National Contemporary
Arts Centre (NCCA), Moscow.
From October 3rd 2008
with support from The British Council
NCCA
See
the Channel 4 News report on
Phillip Warnell from 2006
Inner
Beauty
The
Guardian national press review of
Introspection-Extramission, 03/05/08
The photo, film and performance artist Phillip Warnell is interested
in all those areas of human experience that used to be defined by
such apparently outmoded terms as soul, or spirit, or inspiration,
or charisma, or animal magnetism. The Austrian physician Franz Mesmer,
who coined the last phrase, is the focus of one of the works here,
as is The Girl With X-Ray Eyes, a Russian teenager who claims to be
able to peer through the skin of any human and directly perceive the
physical causes of the sufferings of her subjects. Warnell has ingested
a pill-sized camera to explore his own pulsing insides and exhibits
a series of rather beautiful calculus stones that have been removed
from hospital patients' internal organs by surgery. The classic and
bizarre warpings of consciousness undergone by victims of shock or
during the process of drowning are further subjects of his ongoing
project that encompasses both amazement and intrigue.
The
Guardian national press preview of
The Girl with X-ray Eyes, 31/05/08
Exhibitions
preview
2008 solo exhibition at 300m3 gallery,Gothenburg
300m3
2006 Channel Four News report
Endo-Ecto
Inner
Beauty
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.
scroll
down on this page for
further current material:
Introspection - Extramission
X-ray Eyes Publication
Soul Mining - now in rehearsal
Placebo - Gothenburg Installation
©
phillip warnell 2008