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]

She was awarded a TED (Conference)2010 Fellow. ^[3]

Pell is an Adjunct Lecturer to the University of Western Australia. She currently resides in Australia and researches innovative aqueous architectures for future use in outer space.^[4]

She is Official Crew^[5] of the Atlantica Expeditions Underwater habitat Mission 2012. ^[6]

Performances

The Many-To-Many World, The Great Hall National Gallery of Victoria (1997); TrainingThe 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)

Exposition

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) Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts Taiwan (2007)

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).

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. <http://www.realtimearts.net/rt68/marhsall_pell.html
2. ^ LABS Leonardo ABstract Service 2006 http://leonardolabs.pomona.edu/SearchDetails.aspx?UID=165
3. ^ TED: Ideas Worth Spreading. Ed. TED Media Team. TED, 2010. Web. 28 Jan. 2011. http://www.ted.com/pages/view/id/394
4. ^ Biologically Enhanced Space Technologies <http://www.bestbiome.com
5. ^ Chamberland, D. The Atlantica Expeditions Aquanaut Crew Profiles, LNW. Web 28 Jan. 2011. <http://underseacolony.com/core/mainhub.html
6. ^ Pell, Sarah J. TED: Ideas Worth Spreading. Ed. TED Media Team. TED, 2010. Web. 10 Apr. 2010. <http://www.ted.com/profiles/browse/areaofexpertise/21342

1. Birringer, Johannes H. Performance and Science. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art - PAJ 85 (Volume 29, Number 1), January 2007, pp. 21–35, The MIT Press
3. Art Surgery Archive: Sarah Jane Pell HYDROPHILIA Performed on Saturday 22 July South Pier, Wharf Road, Penzance 2006: http://www.tract-liveart.co.uk/Sarah%20Jane%20Pell/Sarah%20Jane%20Pell%20Archive.html

External links

• Official website
• Research & Publication CV, Community of Science
• Mobile Art Life Lab LifeBoat

See also

National Review of Live Art Reviews Database hosted by AHDS Performing Arts
Live Art Archives at the University of Bristol Theatre Collection
See also the free educational resources: Live Art Archive and Digital Performance Archive hosted by AHDS Performing Arts

Persondata
Name	Pell, Sarah Jane
Alternative names	SJ
Short description	Artist, researcher, commercial diver
Date of birth	30 December 1974
Place of birth	Melbourne, Australia
Date of death
Place of death