DRY RUN part 3: Scale Of Emergency
How big is an emergency?
When does something become an emergency?
Could you use the Richter scale to measure the effects of a broken heart?
Scale of Emergency takes the format of a series of large target diagrams, on which the artists, (in negotiation with the audience) attempt to map the severity, variety and scale of emergencies against one another.
This collection of emergencies (generated by the artists with help from a passing audience) ranges from personal scale, micro emergencies to larger, macro (national or global) emergencies.
As the artists come to temporary agreements about where to place each emergency on the scale, each decision is hampered by the inherent failure of trying to categorise, shape or even ‘fix’ notions of emergency.
>> This is a bookwork that accompanies the performance DRY RUN part 3: Scale of Emergency
“DRY RUN parts 2 & 3” are part of an ongoing research project supported by Plymouth College of Art
