An artists love letter to the cow from “you’re more likely to be killed by a cow than a shark”.

The images were captured during the first two attempts of the “Punk Rock Idle” performance by using an infrared remote shutter in my hand while I attempt to balance on the unicyle on the rockshelf with the exoskeleton on my shoulders. The performance is a collaboration between my body, the landscape, the exoskeleton, the unicycle and the camera. The exoskeleton’s jaw and gears have been hand-cast from recycled ocean plastics. The skull is that of a cow skull and the hair is human.

During the performance I was assisted with the help of Emma Rani Hodges and Bridget Grace.

Punk, Romantic was the name of my debut solo exhibition and corresponding body of work that was presented at Platform - Canberra (previously known as CCAS Manuka) in December 2024 - https://www.canberracontemporary.com.au/ccas-manuka-2024/sophie-dumaresq-punk-romantic

The exhibitions text

“LEARNING TO GO SLOW

The Uncanny and the Audacious in the art of Sophie Dumaresq” is by world renowned performance artist Stelarc.

“We inhabit an age of the digital and the algorithmic. But this is not simplistically the realm of the computational and of the virtual. The multimedia, interdisciplinary and performative projects of Sophie Dumaresq are about a personal sensibility that combines the human, the animal and the machinic in permutations and combinations that are uncanny and surreal.”

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