LOW PROFILE are Rachel Dobbs and Hannah Jones and have been working in collaboration to make live art since 2003. They are currently based in Plymouth, UK.
“In our work as LOW PROFILE, we are drawn to tasks which are unfeasibly large, seemingly ridiculous and on the edges of sense and nonsense. Our concerns are human scale, they are based on the specific, particular fixations and everyday details of our lives – in an attempt to reclaim things that would otherwise be overlooked or forgotten about; things that are over used, over familiar and over played.”
LOW PROFILE make reference to personal histories, song lyrics, party pieces, skills, tricks, TV game shows, light entertainment, common sayings, neuroticisms, first impressions and non-functional niceties.
By setting up live situations that are inviting and engaging, they aim to explore the reoccurring concerns of entertainment, humour, trust and friendship; being prepared, trying hard and doing your best; learning live and making mistakes in front of an audience.
“We are bound up in the impossibility of language, in the inability we feel when trying to express ourselves to others, in the difficulty of saying things out loud, in the words getting mixed up, in the awkward stutters and silences.”
LOW PROFILE’s work is about not giving up, the impossible, the endless and the obsessive - their experiences of everyday life magnified and put on show. The work takes various shapes including live performance, video, installation, publications and bookworks.