DRY RUN part 3

CONTENTS:

DRY RUN part 2: How to save your skin when disaster strikes without warning

‘How to save your skin when disaster strikes without warning’ is a 12 hour durational performance where LOW PROFILE read, try to learn from and test each other on, the survival advice offered by the 1960s publication, “The Book of Survival” by Anthony Greenbank.

“The Book of Survival” is made up of 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, darkness and so on.

Once read, the book offers the promise to leave its readers mentally equipped ‘to survive’. Throughout the 12 hours of the performance, the artists and audience navigate the strange content of “The Book of Survival”, repeatedly putting this promise ‘to the test’ (in the relatively ‘safe’ environment of the gallery) in the hope that they will learn how to survive, against all odds.

They (the book, LOW PROFILE and the audience), of course, can’t prepare for the emergencies not covered, the ‘missing’ chapters and the mis-remembered golden rules.


DRY RUN part 2 – How to save your skin when disaster strikes without warning

Instruction:

  • You must read “The Book of Survival” by Anthony Greenbank (1967) from cover to cover, out loud and in front of an audience.
  • During the performance, questions will be formed by the ‘tester’ to ensure that the ‘reader’ is learning from (and remembering) what they are reading.
  • The questions are derived from the material of the book itself, from (invited) suggestions from the audience and from previously unprepared questions, improvised in the moment of the performance.
  • The performance is over when the entire book has been read out loud and the final sentence, “And really keep it up right to the bitter end”, has been spoken.
 

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this work by Rachel Dobbs & LOW PROFILE
is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
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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