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Risk Management Exercise, 2022:
2022 was the year that health and safety went mainstream: when masks, PCR test documentation, and proximity regulations became the new normal. Signs that asked people to ‘Stay Back’ and ‘Don’t shake hands’ were swiftly designed and produced, fitting into the canon of existing signage.
Adrian Lee’s performance Risk Management Exercise continues his investigation of Health and Safety conventions and practice. Safety signs can be broken into four important categories: Prohibition, Warning, Mandatory and Emergency. The graphics and text are required to be direct, clear communitive and to try to retain some authority, without being deliberately horrific, like cigarette warning images, or farcical (please clean up after your dog).
For Risk Management Exercise a piece of choreography was composed using the 56 signs that feature a figure available from a leading signage producer. The artist moves rapidly through the positions required, whilst attempting to retain the appearance of an authority figure.