Portfolio of a Philosophy in Action

Unique creative explorer striving to realise impactful ideas.

Dr. Sarah Jane Pell pursues new understandings of human performance in a direct and powerful way. She engages transdisciplinary teams and cultures, technologies and aesthetics to bring to life the wonder of human encounters through live performance, and immersive cinematic arts so that we may better adapt, evolve and connect to this extraordinary world.

Aquabatics Portfolio Pell

Lifeboat Portfolio Pell

Mt-Everest-2015-Bending-Horizons-Portfolio-Pell

explorer-fish-movie-Portfolio-Pell

Moonwalk-Portfolio-Pell

Possum-2016-Portfolio-Pell

sea-survival-2017-Portfolio-Pell

australia-council-fellow-2016-Portfolio-Pell

robotronica-2017-Portfolio-Pell

how-to-survive-2017-Portfolio-Pell

mdrs1882018-Portfolio-Pell

mars-olympiad-2018-Portfolio-Pell

Rockstars-2018-Portfolio-Pell

lunares2018Portfolio Pell

lunares2018Portfolio Pell

lunares2018Portfolio Pell

moonhenge-2018-mivp-lunares-Portfolio-Pell

moonhenge-2018-Portfolio-Pell

moonhenge-2018-mivp-Portfolio-Pell

lunares-spectra2018-Portfolio-Pell

Lunar-Parliament-2018-Portfolio-Pell

Stellar-Corpus-2018-Portfolio-Pell

Speaker Portfolio Pell 2019

Today's Portfolio highlight Project Moonwalk is just one of Sarah Jane Pell's key projects that emphasize science, technology, and storytelling to better understand human culture and connection to some of Earth’s extreme environments, and our urge to explore beyond into the frontiers of space.

Learn about her recent projects, their impact and see the latest updates below.

The unfolding SeaSpace unity

MDRS188 MIVP Artist-in-Residence Pell CAVE2

Bending Horizons 360, 2018-2019
Monash Immersive Visualisation Platform MIVP Artist-in-Residence, Adj. Assoc. Professor (Research).

More information
Australia Council Fellow Sarah Jane Pell

Performing Astronautics, Earth 2016-2018
Australia Council Fellowship project, Experimental and Emerging Arts, AU. 2016-2018.

More information
LunAres Spectra Crew Promo

LunAres III, Pila PL 2018
LunAres Moon/Mars Research Station, 3rd Lunar Analogue Crew (SPECTRA), Pila PL 2018.

More information
MDRS Crew 188 Promo

MDRS 188, Hanksville US 2018
Mars Desert Research Station, Crew 188 (ISU), Hanksville Utah, US 2018.

More information
Sarah Jane Pell with Cinema Swarm Robotronica 2017

The Agency of Human-Robotic Lunatics, QUT AU 2017
Robotronica Festival Human-Robotic Keynote Performance with Cinema Swarm & Visitor.Vision.

More information
Exp 52 Launch Baikanor Cosmodrome 2017

Exp 52 ISS launch, Baikonur KZ 2017
Soyuz MS-05 rocket launches Expedition 52/53 Crew to ISS from Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan 2017.

More information
Moonwalk EVA 2016 SIM Astronaut Sarah Jane Pell Photo Alexis Rosenfeld

Project Moonwalk, Marseille FR 2016
Simulation Astronaut, Lunar EVA at European Undersea Analogue, Marseille, FR. May 2016.

More information
Project Possum astronaut candidate Sarah Jane Pell, 2016

Project PoSSUM, US 2016
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Suborbital Mission Operations, Daytona Beach, US. Mar 2016.

More information
We are all Explorer Fish Movie Promo

We are all Explorer Fish, AU/NO 2016
Meta.Morf 2016 Biennale of Art & Technology Tronheim, TEKS NO, 2016 Premiere at the Nova Cinema.

More information
Ocean Synapse 2014 by Pell and Burke

Ocean Synapse, Melbourne/Oakland AU/US 2014
A trans-hemisphere performance with Ben Burke on the Waterwheel platform for World Water Day.

More information
On Turbulence, Performance Research Promo

Performance Research, 2014
Volume 19, 2014 - Issue 5: On Turbulence, Aquabatics: a post-turbulent performance in water.

More information
Sarah Jane Pell, Exertion Games Lab, RMIT University

Exertion Games Lab, AU 2012-2015
Visiting Research Fellow, RMIT University, Exertion Games Lab, DesignHub, Melbourne AU.

More information