Below you’ll find an archive of Low Profile’s performances to date. Just click on the links for more information, documentation and images.
‘DRY RUN’ is an umbrella name for a series of ongoing investigations into working out the right thing to do in a situation of emergency. This series will include durational performances, videos, bookworks, and performative installations.
‘Show For You’
‘Show for You’ is an hour long studio show that traverses the worlds of light entertainment, magic, party pieces, skills, tricks, first impressions and non-functional niceties - exploring the things we all do when we’re being on our best behaviour, trying to come across well, be charming, entertaining, a good guest or a good host.
‘Low Profile presents: d o u b l e a c t s [work in progress]’
‘d o u b l e a c t s’ is an hour long studio show that explores the nature of Low Profile’s collaboration in relation to those of well known double acts - asking questions about why two people would choose to work together, when is this acceptable and how this type of close working relationship is perceived by others.
‘Low Profile presents: Just in Case’
‘Just in Case’ is a guided tour through known and unknown spaces where Low Profile have tasked themselves ‘to be prepared for every eventuality’ - the task reveals itself to be repetitive, endless, obsessive, and nonsensical - switching between being moving, intimate, humourous and ridiculous, all the while retaining a sense of trying ones best and continuing against all odds.
‘Just in Case’ was originaly developed during a residency at OVADA, Oxford (UK) and has been re-worked specifically for diskurs 05 festival, Giessen (DE) and TENT, Rotterdam (NL) .
‘Low Profile presents: One of Us’
‘Low Profile presents: One of Us’ is a durational performance for informal social settings, performed at events where strangers meet - echoing the way we create and re-create our identities by telling and re-telling our stories, ‘One of Us’ takes the form of a game show where passing audience members are invited to take positions and to judge the performers solely on a set of statements provided.
‘Low Profile presents: an introduction’
‘Low Profile presents: an introduction’ is a performative lecture that sets about presenting ‘an introduction’ to Low Profile’s practice, influences and stories through a seemingly formal overview of the practice of list making - where the revealing of process becomes an integral part of the performance.
‘Low Profile presents: A Lesson in Love’
‘Low Profile presents: A Lesson In Love’ is a durational performance where the two performers attempt to learn a very long list of love song titles ‘by heart’ until they can say them out loud, to the audience without hesitations or stumbles. By setting about the task of “learning love”, the performance asks us to reconsider the over-familiar language of love songs, learning live and making mistakes.
‘Low Profile presents: THREE - a performance’
‘Low Profile presents: THREE - a performance’ was Low Profile’s first experiment in making live performances. Using a photographic darkroom as its site, THREE sets up a situation where participants must use a camera’s flash to simultaneously view and document the otherwise hidden live experience.