biography:
LOW PROFILE is a collaboration between artists Rachel Dobbs (IRL) and Hannah Jones (UK).
Recent performances include DRY RUN part 4: MacGyver’thon, Proximity Effect, Plymouth Arts Centre, DRY RUN part 2: How to save your skin when disaster strikes without warning, The Royal Standard, Liverpool (2008) and DRY RUN part 3: Scale of Emergency, Arnolfini, Bristol (2009) and Show for You, commissioned by Plymouth Arts Centre, PL:ay festival, Plymouth (2007).
LOW PROFILE’s recent solo publications include Worth The Trip, commissioned by Newlyn Art Gallery (2007), alongside invitations to contribute to a number of publications, including Minor Breast (Braço de Ferro) (2008) and OMSKbook
(ed Clare Moloney) (2007).
LOW PROFILE are Arnolfini Associate Artists.
www.we-are-low-profile.co.uk
lowprofilepresents[at]hotmail.com
commissions:
‘Show For You’
commissioned and developed as part of Plymouth Arts Centre’s Artists and Curator Residency Programme, 2007 (performance)
‘Worth The Trip’
new work commissioned to mark the relaunch of the extended Newlyn Art Gallery and the opening of The Exchange Penzance, Cornwall - July 2007 (performance & publication)
‘Low Profile presents: d o u b l e a c t s‘
A Phoenix Scratch commission, supported by Arts Council England, Exeter Phoenix, 2006 (performance & bookwork)
residencies:
Plymouth Arts Centre’s Artists and Curators Residency Programme, November – July 2007
VENT live art residency - OVADA, Oxford, April 2005
programming and project management:
PL:ay (a festival of live art) - (programmers & joint project managers) in collaboration with one.c, Plymouth, July 2007
recent performances:
LOW PROFILE presents: A Lesson in Love
(performance) Dartington College of Arts, Totnes, Sept 2009
DRY RUN part 4: MacGyver’thon
(performance) Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, Nov 2008
DRY RUN part 3: Scale of Emergency
(performance) Arnolfini, Bristol, Feb 2009
(installation) Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, Nov 2008
(performance & installation) The Royal Standard, Liverpool, Oct 2008
DRY RUN part 2: How to save your skin when disaster strikes without warning
(performance) The Royal Standard, Liverpool, Oct 2008
DRY RUN part 1: You are a workaholic with no time for love
(performance) I Am Still Your Worst Nightmare, Arnolfini, Bristol, April 2008
(performance) Rhubarb, Plymouth, March 2008
previous performances:
‘Show For You’
(performance) PL:ay [a festival of adventure, anticipation and encounters] Plymouth, July 2007
‘Low Profile presents: d o u b l e a c t s [work in progress]’
(performance) Scratch Commission, Exeter Phoenix, January, May & December 2006
(performance & installation) Royal Standard, Liverpool, July 2006
(performance) flikOMSK, Corsica Studios, London, March 2006
‘Low Profile presents: One of Us’
(performance) Social Systems Launch Party, The Acorn Theatre, Penzance, July 2007
(performance) one.c goes to the cavern, The Cavern, Exeter, May 2006
(performance) OVADA, Oxford, April 2005
(performance) multi avond, TENT, Rotterdam, December 2004
‘Low Profile presents: an introduction’
(performance) eXpo festival 05, (NTU) Nottingham, November 2005
(performance) Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, April 2005
(performance) Exeter School of Art and Design, Exeter, March 2005
(performance) Platforms of presentation, TENT, Rotterdam, June 2004
‘Low Profile presents: Just in Case‘
(performance) diskurs 05 festival, Giessen, Germany, October 2005
(performance) TENT, Rotterdam, May 2005
(performance and installation) Gangkurst, Rotterdam, May 2005
(performance) OVADA, Oxford, April 2005
‘Low Profile presents: skip-recall recall-skip‘
(performance) graft 05, Nottingham Riverside Festival, August 2005
(performance) ‘ROAM’, OMSK, London, July 2004
‘Low Profile presents: A Lesson in Love’
(performance) Exposure Gallery, Swansea Fringe Festival, October 2005
(performance) Scratching/multi avond, TENT, Rotterdam, March 2004
(performance) Three Minute Warning, Exeter Phoenix, November 2003
‘Low Profile presents: THREE - a performance’
(performance and installation) photographic darkroom at ERRN, Exeter, March 2003
publications:
LOW PROFILE (2007) ‘Worth The Trip’
Penzance: Newlyn Art Gallery
“Double Acts” in (ed) Moloney, Claire (2007) ‘OMSK BOOK’
(Funded by Arts Council England)
“Lists are… “ in (eg) Bangma, Anke (2005) ‘Looking, encountering, staging’
Revolver Books & PZI: Rotterdam
“Feed the Birds” in (ed) Christoph Keller (2005) ‘Black Friday’
Revolver Books: Frankfurt
group exhibitions:
‘Proximity Effect’ (performance & installation) Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, November 2008 – January 2009
‘The Wrong Place’ (video installation) Site, Liverpool, 21 March – 21 April 2007
‘SLOW’ (video & bookwork installation) Plymouth Arts Centre, Jan – Mar 2007
‘Double Acts’ (installation) The Royal Standard, Liverpool, July 2006
‘VENT’ (slide & text installation) OVADA, Oxford, April 2005
‘The Berlin Group’ (video installation) (text installation) Salle Demain, Rotterdam, Feb 2005
thelastperformance.org – (invited writers) online writing project initiated by Goat Island, March 2008 – December 2009
previous parallel projects:
‘For One Night Only Low Profile are the Round Girls‘ - (performance)
Dada v Fluxus : performance in the ring, South Brent, March 2006
‘Commuter Karaoke’ - (performance) Five Second Theatre, Hull, May 2005
‘The Berlin Group‘ - (video & text work) Salle Demain, Rotterdam, February 2005
recent workshops:
DIY6: What do you do with the leftovers? – (commissioned workshop leaders) Live Art Development Agency in collaboration with Artsadmin, Newwork Network, The Basement, Colchester Arts Centre, Nuffield Theatre & LANWest, and PLATFORM – September 2009
Performance Writing & Artists’ Ephemera – (associate lecturers) LOW PROFILE were invited to lead a 3 day workshop for students from the Performance Writing degree at Dartington College of Arts and Creative Writing programme at London College of Communication.