From time to time, LOW PROFILE are involved in projects that run parallel to their core practice. Just click on the links for more information, documentation and images.
Goat Island, The Lastmaker writing project
Low Profile were participants in the Goat Island Winter School (Glasgow, February 2008). As a result of this, there were invited to join The Last Performance online writing project. This has resulted in a number of texts published online at http://thelastperformance.org throughout 2008.
- (invited writers) online February - December 2008
‘Low Profile say Hello and Goodbye’
On New Year’s Eve 2007, Low Profile were invited to make a performance to mark the occasion. As part of Cafe Concrete (and with help from their fine audience), Low Profile ushered in the New Year with the following contribution…
- (performance) Cafe Concrete, New Year’s Eve 2007
PL:ay Festival
one.c and Low Profile teamed up to develop, programme and produce a new festival of adventure, anticipation and encounters for the first time in Plymouth, UK. PL:ay showcased artists predominantly from the South West presenting live art, video, photography and installation with a strong performative quality to create a day-long free festival in a range of venues around Plymouth city centre.
PL:ay was produced jointly by LOW PROFILE and one.c, and was funded by Arts Council England, Plymouth City Council, Plymouth College of Art and Design and Plymouth Arts Centre with support from Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery. PL:ay’s project interns were Dan Baker, Natalie Parrett and Ruth Shorrock.
- (programmers & co-project managers) PL:ay, various venues, Plymouth, July 2007
R U an artist?
As part of the Art School event organised by B+B at Plymouth Art Centre, Low Profile were invited to make a presentation about the realities of being an artist in Plymouth. This led Low Profile to develop a project searching for the lonely artists of Plymouth, as an investigation into the hidden networks of artists who live or work in the city.
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- (invited speakers) Art School, Plymouth Arts Centre, October 2006
‘For one night only, Low Profile are the round girls’
Low Profile were invited to be the round girls at a boxing match with a difference, a bout between Dada and Fluxus in a regulation size boxing ring in a village hall in South Brent (UK). The resulting event, “one.c at the Old School Hall, South Brent, March 2006″ was curated by Kath Wynne with Pete Davies (one.c).
- (boxing ring girls) dada v fluxus, performance in the ring, Old School Hall, South Brent, Devon UK, March 2006
‘The Berlin Group’
The Berlin Group was formed by a group of artists (including Low Profile) who met on the MA Fine Art at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam in order to explore the ideas of non-collaborative alliance, productivity and entanglement.
- (video & text work) Salle Demain, Rotterdam, February 2005
’skip-recall recall-skip’
skip-recall-recall-skip is a participatory performance that developed from ideas about re-instating playtime into the daily lives of adults. Passing audiences in public places are invited to recall childhood playtimes through the act of skipping and sharing remembered skipping rhymes.
- (performance) graft 05, Nottingham Riverside Festival, August 2005
- (performance) ‘ROAM’, OMSK, London, July 2004
‘Commuter Karaoke’
Commuter Karaoke exists in the public and private spaces of the daily commute - this place between work and home, time spent in close proximity to strangers, separated only by the thin glass of the car windows. The performance responds to specific contexts and has been developed for the following sites:
- (performance) Five Second Theatre, Hull, May 2005
- (performance) Bath Fringe Festival, Bath, June 2004
- (performance) Topsham Road, Exeter, Oct 2003
‘101 ways to say I love you’
101 ways to say I love you is a set of anonymous messages left on an answer machine. The piece examines the endless, incessant, unremitting and sometimes frantic, desperate and nonsensical nature of a ubiquitous phrase like “I love you”.
- (sound recording) 2003
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