MacGyver’thon

MacGyver’thon saw LOW PROFILE watch an entire series of the hit 80’s TV show MacGyver, back-to-back, with an audience (for 17+ hours) cataloguing ‘useful’ information.

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Where this work has ended up

MacGyver’thon was presented at: 91mQ Projectspace, Berlin as part of Nude as the News (2010) and Plymouth Arts Centre, as part of Proximity Effect, Plymouth (2008)

MacGyver’thon

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.

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.

LOW PROFILE tested and put into question how we might ‘learn’ to be better prepared for real life and emergency situations by obsessively watching an entire series of the TV show in one sitting. As we watched, we wrote up and catalogued the many different ways in which Macgyver ‘saved the day’. An audience came and went during the 18hr duration, often helping the performers out when they got stuck trying to recall the often complex and convoluted ways in which Macgyver got himself out of difficult situations.