The Royal Standard Project Space
Thursday 9th – Saturday 11th October 2008

2 day performative residency and 12hr durational performance
By collaborative duo LOW PROFILE


DRY RUN part 3 – Scale of Emergency
Thursday 9th & Friday 10th October 2008, 11am - 6pm

“DRY RUN part 3 - Scale of Emergency” was a performative installation that presented LOW PROFILE’s attempt to understand, locate and make sense of varying scales of emergency - investigating the nature of personal, micro emergencies alongside the larger, macro (national or global) emergencies we are exposed to on a daily basis.

LOW PROFILE set themselves the challenge of mapping a collection of emergency situations on a series of target diagrams. Through discussion with each other and their audience, they made decisions about what should go next to what – measuring (for example), whether losing your keys is ‘worse than’ or ‘as bad as’ falling off your bike or whether you could use the Richter scale to measure the effects of a broken heart.

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DRY RUN part 2 – How to save your skin when disaster strikes without warning
Saturday 11th October 2008, 10am - 10pm

After three days of intensive discussion, preparation, analysis and learning, LOW PROFILE presented a durational performance of “DRY RUN part 2 – How to save your skin when disaster strikes without warning”, on Saturday 11th October 2008 from 10 am – 10pm, a new 12 hour durational performance exploring ideas about rehearsing for life – trying to pre-empt and prepare for situations of emergency.

LOW PROFILE used the found text “The Book of Survival” by Anthony Greenbank (1967) - 265 pages of information about how to survive brake failure, constipation, ants, claustrophobia, falling debris, electric shock, ghosts, heart attack, cracked lips, loneliness, fall-out radiation, burglars, sandstorms, altitude sickness, being lost and darkness.Through the performance, they navigated the strange content of “The Book of Survival” in the hope of learning how to survive, against all odds.

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DRY RUN is an umbrella name for a series of LOW PROFILE’s ongoing investigations into working out the right thing to do in a situation of emergency. This series will include durational performances, videos, bookworks, and performative installations.

DRY RUN parts 2 & 3 are part of an ongoing research project supported by Plymouth College of Art.

For more info about the artists see: www.we-are-low-profile.co.uk