BILLBOARD: 8th July- 9th September 2014: SOPHIA DACY-COLE: 90 Kilometres North-East

We drive 90 kilometers north-east.

It is dark when we arrive and we are late intruders to the community meeting – there is always a community meeting here now.

Conservatives, conservationists, conservative conservationists and hippies all sharing pizzas, sharing beers. What do you do when your home is being logged? A praxis. A case study.

There was a tree-house here on the edge of a logging coupe but it got taken down by court order.

The logging, too, is suspended, yet all through the next day we hear the heady smash of trees being felled.

What sound does it make when a tree falls in a forest and nobody cares?

We stage a re-performance of sorts: an elegy for the tree-house.

We rig on the edge of a coupe that’s been delayed by the court order.

I am unfit, wheezing as I climb, my muscles tight.

My tensioned body: suspended, on the edge of the suspended logging coupe.

Sophia Dacy-Cole is a 24-year-old MFA student at Monash University. She is an artist, art writer and activist. She has recently presented a solo show at Kings ARI entitled Tethered: Logistics of Suspension and published an article in un. magazine issue 7.2. Her work aims to further open the space between the methodologies of art and activism. 90 Kilometres North-East is the most recent iteration of her ongoing research into the contested sight of the Toolangi State Forest in Victoria.

Opening Drinks: 26 July at 4pm.

For further information, visit: www.sophiadacycole.com