Sarah Jane Pell

Sarah Jane Pell (born 30 December 1974) is an Australian artist researcher and commercial diver. Her works combine the traditions of body art, extreme performance art and human factors with underwater habitat and professional diving technologies.

Pell is best known for her creative research of human performance behaviours and limits in extreme environments - usually underwater.

'Although she draws on the poetic and performative potential suggested by aquatic environments, her body of work is best described as an aestheticisation of life support systems. The body in water is dialectical, at once in communion with and conflict with water. Aquatic performance offers the possibility of an ecstatic release into the enveloping weightlessness of an azure world, yet nevertheless the body gags in the face of this fantasy, as the need for oxygen reasserts itself.'[1]

Pell founded the Aquabatics Research Team, Australia in 2002 and completed a PhD proposing Aquabatics as new works of Live Art to Edith Cowan University.[2]

Pell was appointed European Space Agency, Topical Team Art and Science ETTAS CoChair in 2011;[3] and Senior Space Art Consultant to Icarus Interstellar in 2013.[4]

She was awarded a TED (Conference)2010 Fellow.[5]

Pell was a Visiting Researcher RMIT University 2012- 2013

Researching interaction design and human computing in novel bodily interfaces suitable for extending human performance experience underwater in the context of exertion games.[6] RMIT Exertion Games Lab, (School Media and Communications).

. She was an Adjunct Lecturer to the University of Western Australia 2005-2007. She currently resides in Australia and researches innovative aqueous architectures for future use in outer space.[7]

She is Official Crew[8] of the Atlantica Expeditions Underwater habitat Mission 2012.[9]

Performances

The Many-To-Many World, The Great Hall National Gallery of Victoria (1997); Training, The National Review of Live Art, Midland (2002); Second Nature: Second Skin, National Review of Live Art, Glasgow (2003); Under Current, Hydrophilia Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (2003, 2004); Hydrophilia, BEAP04 Biennale of Electronic Arts, Perth (2004); LifeBoat - mobile life art laboratory collaboration with Nigel Helyer, Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr ISEA04 International Symposium of Electronic Arts, The Baltic (2004); Under Current, Bonnington Gallery, UK (2004); Petrification - collaboration with Lawrence English, ARC Biennial, Brisbane (2005); Hydrophilia, Tract -Live Art Festival, Art Surgery & Newlyn Art Gallery, UK (2006); Perth International Arts Festival, "Deep Performance Enhancement" Fremantle Arts Centre, AU (2013);

Exhibitions

Substance & Transparency, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (1998); Spectrum Project Space, Perth (2002); Walking with Water, Western Australian Maritime Museum (2005); Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (2006); Multimedia Asia Pacific, Bangkok (2005, 2006) Reykjavik Arts Festival, Iceland (2006); DEPOT Danks Street Gallery, Sydney AU (2006); Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts Taiwan (2007); ETTAS Showcase, The European Space Agency, ASTEC, Noordvijk, NL (2012); Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration, California US (2013); Inside Running, the sport of art, Fremantle Arts Centre, AU (2013);

About

Pell received a Bachelor Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Australia (1995); Masters of Arts in Human Performance from Victorian University of Technology, Australia (1998); ADAS2 Occupational Diving Commercial Diving, The Underwater Centre, Fremantle (2002); Doctor of Philosophy, Visual Art, Edith Cowan University, Australia (2005/6). She is alumni of the International Space University, France (2006) and Singularity University, NASA Ames Research Park, California (2010).

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Marshall, J. The art of life support, Real Time & On Screen Vol 68, Aug/ Sep 2005, p. 48 Australia. Web. 28 Jan. 2011.
  2. ↑ "LABS : Leonardo ABstracts Service". Leonardolabs.pomona.edu. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
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  4. ↑ "Dr. Sarah Jane Pell - Icarus Interstellar". Icarusinterstellar.org. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  5. ↑ "TED2010 Fellows". TED. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  6. ↑ "Gravity Well". Exertion Games Lab. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
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  9. ↑ "TED - Profile - Browse". Ted.com. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
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