The Book of Survival

The Book of Survival

Over the course of the performance, the artists and audience navigate the strange content of “The Book of Survival”, which offers the promise that it leaves readers mentally equipped ‘to survive’ anything.

LOW PROFILE repeatedly put this promise ‘to the test’. The performers take it in turns composing questions from the facts, information and guidance read out; whilst the other performer reading the book is interrupted, expected to answer the questions to the best of her recollection.

As the room’s walls fill with questions stuck up as they have been asked, it becomes increasingly difficult to remember the ‘correct’ answers to questions composed hours earlier.

The book’s extraordinary promise of being able to achieve absolute survival is pulled apart – questioning the idea of fixing contracts of knowledge within a book format, the impossibility of being able to imagine all possible emergency circumstances and drawing attention to the issue of singular authored advice or knowledge.