Dr. Sarah Jane Pell evokes the aquatic spectacles of Annette Kellerman and Harry Houdini and the pioneering spirits of NASA and Jacques Cousteau amid performance, digital media, installation and advanced life-support technologies - Fullscreen 08 Explorations in digital media: communion, community and communication  The National Gallery of Australia presents fullscreen 08: explorations in digital media, a full-day forum of four artists exploring new-media practice and its role in building connections and community: Walton, Marynowsky, Pell and Ihlein Australian National Gallery, Canberra | Sunday 12 October 11 am - 4 pm

1. Sarah Jane Pell :: PhD, AQ. http:// www.sarahjanepell.com Dr. Sarah Jane Pell | Fullscreen 08 | Australian National Gallery | 12 October 2008

2. Sarah Jane Pell, PhD, AQ. [email_address] http:// www.sarahjanepell.com Sarah Jane Pell Sarah Jane Pell evokes the aquatic spectacles of Annette Kellerman and Harry Houdini and the pioneering spirits of NASA and Jacques Cousteau amid performance, digital media, installation and advanced life-support technologies – fullscreen08, NGA Dr. Sarah Jane Pell | Fullscreen 08 | Australian National Gallery | 12 October 2008

3. Fullscreen 08 Explorations in digital media: communion, community and communication COMMUNION COMMUNITY COMMUNICATION Sarah Jane Pell, PhD, AQ. [email_address] http:// www.sarahjanepell.com Dr. Sarah Jane Pell | Fullscreen 08 | Australian National Gallery | 12 October 2008

4. Second Nature: Second Skin, >2003 A media performance documenting my first attempt to fly with custom-built life-size wings designed by Leonardo DaVinci in the ocean. The result was akin to the poetry of ‘The Falls’ 1980 the bird film by Peter Greenaway in the sense that it is, as the title suggests, “ something of Georges Bataille’s delight in the puncturing of those human pretensions which the fall of Icarus so concisely symbolises ”. [Baker 2000: 32] Sarah Jane Pell, PhD, AQ. [email_address] http:// www.sarahjanepell.com Dr. Sarah Jane Pell | Fullscreen 08 | Australian National Gallery | 12 October 2008

5. Second Nature: Second Skin, National Review of Live Art, UK 2003

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8. Trans>Port (TERMINAL) 2004 Submerged in a 12m x 2m x 1m Aqua Super tank filled with 17,000lts of salt water and heated to 16 degrees, I improvised five John Cage performance instructions including ‘Water Walk’ and ‘Water Music’ at the Fremantle Passenger Terminal, Victoria Quay for The Space Between Conference, Perth closing. Sarah Jane Pell, PhD, AQ. [email_address] http:// www.sarahjanepell.com Dr. Sarah Jane Pell | Fullscreen 08 | Australian National Gallery | 12 October 2008

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10. Trans>Port (TERMINAL) 2004 Over the 3.5 hour performance I experienced extreme cold – distorted visibility – separation anxiety from the audience and a lack of privacy and personal space – a limited field of movement and other local factors affecting my physical, psychological and social boundaries and ultimately my performance behavior. I felt like a caged animal. People tapped on the glass expecting me to perform tricks on demand… The audience viewed the work live tank-side and via broadcast to an internal screen system, and projection adjacent to the harbour waters.

13. UnderCurrent III, 2003 What does it mean to perform under pressure and with self-containment? This engagement took place along the 2.4km length of the largest wooden structure in the Southern Hemisphere: the Busselton Jetty – standing tall above the Leuwin Current. NB It was 33 degree C outside the dome and the fishermen kindly cleared the debris of hooks and guts as I passed. Sarah Jane Pell, PhD, AQ. [email_address] http:// www.sarahjanepell.com Dr. Sarah Jane Pell | Fullscreen 08 | Australian National Gallery | 12 October 2008

15. UnderCurrent V, 2004 The body is suction-sealed inside a 45cm transparent dome containing 16minutes of air. The body ‘members states and conditions from subspace towards an aqueous alterity manifested through a movement trajectory. The performance concludes when either a) the air depletes, b) poisoning occurs, c) 25 minutes passes. Emergency oxygen and a first aid attendant should be present. Post-dive recuperation and body monitoring is employed. Sarah Jane Pell, PhD, AQ. [email_address] http:// www.sarahjanepell.com Dr. Sarah Jane Pell | Fullscreen 08 | Australian National Gallery | 12 October 2008

17. All rights reserved Sarah Jane Pell 2006 Under Current V, 2005 Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham UK

18. Hydrophilia, AU 2004 I perform wearing a prototype SSBA “Oyster” diving helmet filled with 30lt of saline. Air is drawn from the surface via an umbilical. The sinuses are flooded. Controlled epiglottal function prevents drowning. The performance continues under commercial diver supervision and protocols exploring fields of consciousness and pneumatoses for 111minutes. September 11, 2004 – BEAP04 Biennale of Electronic Arts, Perth Sarah Jane Pell, PhD, AQ. [email_address] http:// www.sarahjanepell.com Dr. Sarah Jane Pell | Fullscreen 08 | Australian National Gallery | 12 October 2008

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21. Hydrophilia II, UK 2006 Hydrophilia is restaged on the deck of a c1900 sailing ship moored in South Quay, Penzance Cornwall in sea spray. Local PADI diving instructor David Bell tends the operations as Pell is rigged to the tall ship mast for an hour. Pell ‘descends’ into the ‘dive’ her dance begins on deck under the watchful eye of her supervisor until he calls her to the ‘surface’. Fluids from the “Oyster” helmet are finally decanted into vessels and presented to the audience. Sarah Jane Pell, PhD, AQ. [email_address] http:// www.sarahjanepell.com Dr. Sarah Jane Pell | Fullscreen 08 | Australian National Gallery | 12 October 2008

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24. Hydrophilia, 2006 Tract Live Art, Art Surgery, Penzance, UK

25. Hydrophilia, 2006 Art Surgery, Penzance, Cornwall UK

26. Fullscreen 08 Explorations in digital media: communion, community and communication COMMUNION COMMUNITY COMMUNICATION Sarah Jane Pell, PhD, AQ. [email_address] http:// www.sarahjanepell.com Dr. Sarah Jane Pell | Fullscreen 08 | Australian National Gallery | 12 October 2008

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38. Constructing Dual-rebreather, Commercial Pacific Divers

39. Interdepend, 2005 ArtsTAS New Media Collaboration: Sarah Jane Pell (AU) & Martyn Coutts (AU) Sarah Jane Pell, PhD, AQ. [email_address] http:// www.sarahjanepell.com Dr. Sarah Jane Pell | Fullscreen 08 | Australian National Gallery | 12 October 2008

42. International Space University, France SSP Life Sciences Department 2006 Tethering workshops with Canadian Astronaut Bob Thirsk Sarah Jane Pell, PhD, AQ. [email_address] http:// www.sarahjanepell.com Dr. Sarah Jane Pell | Fullscreen 08 | Australian National Gallery | 12 October 2008

44. FUTURE ART OF/IN/FOR TELESURGERY ?

46. SymbioticA, 2003 - 2006 the art and science research laboratory, School of Anatomy & Human Biology, University of Western Australia Sarah Jane Pell, PhD, AQ. [email_address] http:// www.sarahjanepell.com Dr. Sarah Jane Pell | Fullscreen 08 | Australian National Gallery | 12 October 2008

47. All rights reserved Sarah Jane Pell 2006 Petrification ARC Biennale 2005 Sarah Jane Pell (Vic/WA) Lawrence English (Qld) Sarah Jane Pell, PhD, AQ. [email_address] http:// www.sarahjanepell.com Dr. Sarah Jane Pell | Fullscreen 08 | Australian National Gallery | 12 October 2008

50. ‘ SubCulture ’ Space Soon, The Roundhouse, London 2006 Sarah Jane Pell, PhD, AQ. [email_address] http:// www.sarahjanepell.com Dr. Sarah Jane Pell | Fullscreen 08 | Australian National Gallery | 12 October 2008

52. 2006 HMP Lunar Medical Contingency Simulation, Devon Is. International Space University (Life Science) backroom Medical Support with real-time communications with the HMP Astronauts (Arctic) NASA-Johnson Space Center (US), and Payload Tele-Operations Center (CA).

53. The Devon Is. simulation demonstrated that an injured suited crewmember could be safely extracted from difficult terrain, similar to what might be expected in a lunar EVA, and transported to a remote site for diagnostic and therapeutic care. A number of issues developed unexpectedly during the simulation that challenged the crew and planners. However, the team was able to complete the seven hour mission. Mars Institute HMP EVA Medivac Simulation, Arctic 2006 Sarah Jane Pell, PhD, AQ. [email_address] http:// www.sarahjanepell.com Dr. Sarah Jane Pell | Fullscreen 08 | Australian National Gallery | 12 October 2008

54. Odyssey, 2005 The Western Australian Maritime Museum, Australia

55. Odyssey, 2005 The Western Australian Maritime Museum, Australia

56. All rights reserved Sarah Jane Pell 2006 Odyssey, 2005 The Western Australian Maritime Museum, Australia

57. All rights reserved Sarah Jane Pell 2006 Walking with Water 2005 (Solo Retrospective Exhibition) The Western Australian Maritime Museum, Australia Sarah Jane Pell, PhD, AQ. [email_address] http:// www.sarahjanepell.com Dr. Sarah Jane Pell | Fullscreen 08 | Australian National Gallery | 12 October 2008

58. Fullscreen 08 Explorations in digital media: communion, community and communication COMMUNION COMMUNITY COMMUNICATION Sarah Jane Pell, PhD, AQ. [email_address] http:// www.sarahjanepell.com Dr. Sarah Jane Pell | Fullscreen 08 | Australian National Gallery | 12 October 2008

59. The Luna Gaia posits a pathway towards new technologies, philosophies, systems applications and infrastructure aimed at achieving a closed loop habitat model for human settlement on the Moon . http://www.isunet.edu LUNA GAIA: A CLOSED LOOP HABITAT FOR THE MOON

62. NASA Ames Research Centre, Bay Area 2006 Sarah Jane Pell, PhD, AQ. [email_address] http:// www.sarahjanepell.com Dr. Sarah Jane Pell | Fullscreen 08 | Australian National Gallery | 12 October 2008

63. http://www.popsci.com/lunagaia http://www.popsci.com/green-side-moon-flash LUNA GAIA: A CLOSED LOOP HABITAT FOR THE MOON

64. Space Soon, The Roundhouse, London 2006 Sarah Jane Pell, PhD, AQ. [email_address] http:// www.sarahjanepell.com Dr. Sarah Jane Pell | Fullscreen 08 | Australian National Gallery | 12 October 2008

66. Thank you

67. Second Nature: Second Skin, >2003 Performed and Produced by Sarah Jane Pell Filmed at Rottnest Island, Western Australia Underwater cinematographer Paul ‘Wooly’ Wolstenholm Production assistant Marco Mona Post Production Marco Mona, ECU Digital Media Audio Composition David Pye Documentation NTU Digital Performance Archive Produced with support from a PICA Research & Development Grant 2003 NRLA Attendance supported by an ANAT Conference Attendance Grant 2003 Thanks to Luke Pither, Helen Embling, Floating Passions, ABCTV & ECU

68. All rights reserved Sarah Jane Pell 2006 Trans>Port (TERMINAL) 2004 Performed by Sarah Jane Pell Produced by Little Girl INTERNATIONAL The Space Between Conference, Fremantle Passenger Terminal Victoria Quay, Western Australia Live Video Korin Gath Documentation Anne Walton Production Assistant Tarsh Bates, Kay Grubb Audio Composition David Pye, Grant Entrich Produced with support from the City of Fremantle Cultural Sponsorship Supertank facility supported by the Mandurah Fishing & Boating Show Thanks to PRUDE, DiveSkiSurf Fremantle, Taylor Marine, TUCF & ECU

69. All rights reserved Sarah Jane Pell 2006 UnderCurrent III, AU 2003 Performed by Sarah Jane Pell Produced by the Shire of Busselton Kickarts Artist Residency Busselton Jetty & Underwater Observatory, Western Australia Documentation Lorraine Corker Assistant Rose Williams Produced with support from the Shire of Busselton, the Busselton Jetty Council and a KickArts Court House Arts Centre Residency, Busselton Great Southern Region of Western Australia.

70. All rights reserved Sarah Jane Pell 2006 UnderCurrent V, UK 2004 Performed by Sarah Jane Pell Produced by GreenRoom Theater Manchester and the Bonnington Gallery Nottingham UK Live Video Michael Mayhew Documentation Richard Graham Post Production Richard Graham & Digital Performance Archive Produced with support from a PICA Research & Development Grant 2003 Under the NAVA Freedman Foundation Travelling Arts Scholarship 2004 Logistical support from LADA & Nottingham Trent University Live Arts

71. All rights reserved Sarah Jane Pell 2006 Hydrophilia I, AU 2004 Performed by Sarah Jane Pell (ADAS 2r) Produced by Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts Biennale of Electronic Arts, Perth BEAP04 Western Australia Documentation Lorraine Corker Diver Supervisor Paul Masters (ADAS 3) Production Assistant Kieran Stewart Produced with support of a BEAPWorks 2005 initiatives from ArtsWA: Department of Culture and the Arts and Australian Government. “ Oyster” helmet produced with support from the Acrylic Domes & Displays, Taylor Marine, TUCF & Pacific Commercial Divers

72. All rights reserved Sarah Jane Pell 2006 Hydrophilia II, UK 2006 Performed by Sarah Jane Pell (ADAS 2r) Produced by Art Surgery Newlyn Art Gallery & South Harbor, Penzance Cornwall UK Documentation Andy Whall Diver Supervisor David Bell (PADI instuctor) Production Assistant Judith Bell, Andy Whall & Blair Todd Produced with support of ArtsWA: Department of Culture and the Arts and Australian Government Produced during a TRACT Live Art residency, Newlyn Art Gallery. Art Surgery Tract Live Art Art Surgery

73. All rights reserved Sarah Jane Pell 2006 Interdepend, AU 2005 Collaborators: Sarah Jane Pell (Vic/WA) Martyn Coutts (Tas/Vic) Prototype dual-rebreather designed and constructed by Pell in collaboration with Coutts & Pacific Commercial Divers, Perth Produced with support from ArtsTAS New Media Creative Development Grant: Tasmanian Department of the Arts and Australian Government Produced during residencies at Spare Parts Puppet Theatre Fremantle and King Street Arts Centre, Perth. Art Surgery

74. All rights reserved Sarah Jane Pell 2006 Petrification, UK 2006 Collaborators Sarah Jane Pell (Vic/WA) Lawrence English (Qld) RAWSpace Galleries, ARC Biennale, Brisbane Documentation Bec English Attendance made possible by support of ArtsWA Artsflight Grant Produced during a RAWSpace New Media Arts residency, Brisbane. Art Surgery

75. All rights reserved Sarah Jane Pell 2006 ADAS Occupational Diver Training, AU 2002> Sarah Jane Pell (ADAS 1 & 2r) The Underwater Centre Fremantle & Perth Diving Academies

76. All rights reserved Sarah Jane Pell 2006 Luna Gaia: a closed loop habitat for the Moon >2006 Presented: ISU Team Project 2006 NASA Ames Research Centre, USA 2006 IAC International Astronautical Congress, ES 2006 ESA European Space Agency, 2007 International Space University and NASA Ames Research Centre. Art Surgery

77. Odyssey, AU 2005 ‘ Walking with Water’ Retrospective Exhibition, WAMM Performed by Sarah Jane Pell (ADAS 2r) Produced by Broomstick Productions and partners Western Australian Maritime Museum, Victoria Quay