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DRY RUN part 3: Scale of Emergency
LOW PROFILE collect a vast array of emergencies, with the help of a passing audience - plotting them on a series of target diagrams with
post-it notes.
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DRY RUN part 3: Scale of Emergency was developed (and first shown) as part of a short residency at The Royal Standard (an artist-run space in Liverpool). In this space, it was installed alongside the performance DRY RUN part 2: How to save your skin when disaster strikes without warning. The resulting ‘emergencies’ were transcribed and re-installed as part of the exhibition Proximity Effect at Plymouth Arts Centre (a publicly funded art gallery in Plymouth), which occupied the same space as the performance DRY RUN part 4: MacGyver’thon. A third version of the piece was made/shown over 7 hours as part of the We Live Here live art weekender at Arnolfini (a major publicly funded art-space in Bristol), where a new set of ‘emergencies’ were generated with the help of a passing audience.
DRY RUN part 3: Scale of Emergency addresses our concerns/engagement with ideas around preparedness, dealing with excess (ordering, filtering and attending to) and scale (human endeavor and the discrepancies between understanding the world in micro and macro senses). It also acts as a space to further research some of the following issues:
- The space of the performance (framing and positioning of the work) (modes of attention and engagement) (processing as an aesthetic)
- Responsibility (anonymity) (ideas about provisionality and authoratitive-ness) (who decides what an emergency is and where it is placed on this scale?)
- Conversations (generating a text live) (conversation – like/unlike a dialogical practice?) (how do you start the conversation?)
- Aesthetic decisions / working with installation
The wrapper text sets about examining each of these areas, drawing out some of the main conceptual and practical issues explored dring the making/showing of this piece.
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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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