LOW PROFILE are embarking on an 18 hour MacGyver marathon.
We will watch the entire first series of the hit 80’s TV show MacGyver, back to back - cataloguing the countless rolls under a door, ways of escaping burning buildings, ways of fooling the guard, disarming the alarm system and essentially, numerous ways to save the day.
We aim to build an alternative guide to how to be prepared for every eventuality – through the repetitive and unforgiving act of cataloguing these TV scenarios, we will extract as much ‘useful’ information as possible (e.g how to escape a burning car using a penknife) to equip ourselves with the knowledge we will need to deal with any emergency, crisis, catastrophe or disaster.
MacGyver is a laid-back, optimistic and extremely resourceful American secret agent who favours brain over brawn – always making the most of his scientific knowledge, the inventive use of everyday objects and his trusty Swiss-Army knife to escape (often extraordinary) life-or-death situations.
In a survey conducted in August 2007, MacGyver out ranked Indiana Jones, John McClane from the Die Hard films and James Bond as the fictional character Americans would most want to be by their side in an emergency situation.
We are hoping that by watching this TV hero for so long, we (the performers and the audience who observe us) may somehow inherit or learn these skills – that MacGyver begins to stand in as a textbook for real life, making us better equipped for our lives outside the (relative) comfort of the gallery space (where we install ourselves for the duration of the performance).