Phillip Warnell is an independent artist and Course Director of Filmmaking at Kingston University, London.

Warnell’s work is balanced between perception, event and documentation. Using various media and strategies of engagement, it is distinguished by its attention: to scrutiny, to technique, to humour, to detail and to the complex relationship between a live event and its recorded, mediated form. His work traverses performative disciplines and chemical media: live events, film & photography, it also explores the intersection between them and other disciplines: such as medicine, philosophy and psychoanalysis. Employing archival exploration and parallel, textual work, Warnell’s work has been described as interested in those areas of human experience that used to be defined by such apparently outmoded terms as soul, spirit, inspiration or animal magnetism.

Recently, Warnell has been involved in directing short 35mm films, including ‘Outlandish’ (a collaboration with philosopher Jean-luc Nancy) and ‘The Girl with x-ray Eyes’ (made with the participation of Natasha Demkina). His work also encompasses swallowing untethered cameras that transmit the functionality of his digestive system live to an audience.

His work has been presented in a wide range of international contexts: including exhibition, event, screening, festival and publication; supported by a range of organizations such as Arts Council England, New York State Council on the Arts and The Wellcome Trust.

Warnell is a guest editor at The Journal of Performance Research (Routledge Press, UK) currently working on the 50th Issue, ‘Transplantations’ (due Jan 2010). Other (artists) publications include ‘The Girl with x-ray Eyes’ and ‘Shock-One Second’.

Web: www.phillipwarnell.com
www.kingston.ac.uk/filmmaking
www.thisisunbound.co.uk
www.performance-research.net