Inverting the art of diving, Pell's helmet is filled with saline while her body remains in the open air. She endures the heavy apparatus, controls her gag reflex & meditates on the ocean to prevent drowning.
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Pell is submerged in a human-scale Petri dish. English amplifies the aquatic acoustics, then to interrupt somatic cadence, Pell is petrified in a gel medium. Dissolving solution releases her.
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Demonstrating a full functioning hand-made bio-shaped oxygen re-breather, Pell makes a ritual gesture from the Indian Ocean, along a submarine slip and into the WA Maritime Musuem.
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Suction-sealed within a 45cm dome containing 16 minutes of air, Pell mobilises and dances inside the tiny habitat until a) the air depletes, b) poisoning occurs, or c) 45 minutes passes.
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Submerged a 12m x 2m x 1m Aqua Super tank filled with 17,000lts of brackish and heated to 16C, Pell improvises to John Cage performance notes for ‘Water Walk’ & ‘Water Music’.
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A media performance of Pell attempting to ‘fly’ underwater using custom-made wings based on a da Vinci design whilst wearing high heels.
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Just Published!
Singularity University GSP10 - 780 Full colour plates 120pg by Sarah Jane Pell.
ESA Appointment 2011
Appointed to the European Space Agency ESA Topical Team for Space and Art!
Portugal 2012
Hydrophilia will be re-staged in Guimaraes 2012 European cultural capital.
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