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DRY RUN part 4: MacGyver'thon
LOW PROFILE watched the entire first series of MacGyver, back-to-back, with an audience, for 17 hours - cataloguing useful information.
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DRY RUN part 4: MacGyver’thon was first performed at Plymouth Arts Centre (a publicly funded art gallery in Plymouth) as part of the group exhibition Proximity Effect in one of the ground floor gallery spaces. The performance of DRY RUN part 4: MacGyver’thon took place on the first day of the exhibition and the resulting performance traces (and a specially produced silent split-screen video simultaneously showing four episodes of MacGyver) were left in the gallery as an installation for the remainder of the exhibition.
Building on DRY RUN part 2: How to save your skin when disaster strikes without warning (HTSYSWDSWW), the performance of DRY RUN part 4: MacGyver’thon uses:
- Working with extended duration (17 hours)
- Having an invigilatator
- Retaining a ‘task-oriented’ approach
- Very little manipulation of source material prior to performance (cataloguing/processing/generating text during performance rather than before)
- The performance created an installation trace (text on walls) that is indexical of the performance itself
The wrapper text sets about examining many similarities in the practical approach and conceptual concerns addressed by DRY RUN part 4: MacGyver’thon and HTSYSWDSWW, making a number of comparisons between the two performances.
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all texts © Rachel Dobbs
research has been supported by AHRC
and undertaken as part of the MACAPD
programme at Dartington College of Arts
(University College Falmouth)
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