News
Our latest project departures is a foray into a new medium: the luggage-trolley walk that has been specially designed to lead you round Leipzig / Halle Airport. Commissioned as part of the AusFlugHafenSicht and Theater der Welt. Read a review (in German) here.
For Call Out Wittenberge we will be installing portraits of residents of Wittenberge with speech bubbles containing statements for and about Wittenberge, which will eventually live on as comments in Google Earth. This will be visible in the former library, renamed for the festival Ihre Veränderungsschneiderei and in 'Hochsitze' (hides) which are brought into the city during the festival Über Leben im Umbruch, which a collboration between a team of sociologists and ethnologists from a variety of German Universities and the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin.
There's a new interview about Dan's GPS work by Eduard Prats Molner on Shift which can be accessed here.
MySpace YourSpace OurSpace was a great success in Manchester as part of Futuresonic08. We would like to thank the people who made the 95 Spaces over the bank holiday weekend as well as the Futuresonic team and Cafe Pop in Oldham Street. Read more here.
forthcoming / current
13 June - 14th September Dan made two pieces of work in Lübben in Spreewald as part of Aquamediale. The exhibtion by 14 artists can be experienced by canoe and is installed in and around the banks of the rivers.
18 June - 6 July, Tue – Sat from 16.00 to 20.00, Sun from 14:00 to 18:00 AusFlugHafenSicht, Flughafen Leipzig/Halle / Theater der Welt, departures - a new project especially made for the airport and a new form: the luggage-trolley video walk.
3 - 6 July,16.00 - 22.00 Ihre Veränderungsschneiderei, Wittenberge, DE. Call Out Wittenberge. Working with the residents of Wittenberge, Brandenburg and a team of sociologists and ethnologists, we will annotate the town both virtually and actually.
Past Dates
2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002
2008
1 - 5 May, Futuresonic, Manchester UK. MySpace - YourSpace - OurSpace. We will be presenting a new installation, made by and with the general public.
25 April - 24 May, das Verortete Verlangen, (the Located Desire), Arttransponder, Brunnenstr 151 Berlin. Dan is presenting new GPS drawings as part of a group show.
24 April - 31 May, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen UK. you, me and everywhere we go - an exhibition of our GPS traces from the start of 2007 until the opening. Co-inciding with the conference 'RECODED: LANDSCAPES AND POLITICS OF NEW MEDIA' at the Centre for Modern Thought.
1 March 2008, Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster UK - plan b. A Measured Response: A creative response to Goat Islands last ever piece, 'The Lastmaker'.
2007
Sunday 2 December, 12.00, opening of Between Places (see below)
2 - 21 December, Between Places, Akademie der Künste Berlin. Exhibition of Dan's GPS drawings in group exhibition of residency recipients from 2006.
12 October, Gallery Leeds Met. University, Bed full of Songs, part of the Light Night celebrations.
21 September - 4 November steirischer herbst, Graz, Austria.equipment can be borrowed from the Theatre and stadtmuseumgraz 10:00 - 18:00. Fortysomething, a new locative media audio piece commissioned for the fortieth anniversary of the festival. Launch 22 September 19:30, Stadtmuseum, Sackstr. Graz
25 August, Bed Full of Songs, tentstation , Berlin. For the first time ever, Bed Full of Songs will be taking place in the open air, in the deep end of an empty swimming pool. Starts 20:00
2 - 9 August, Stromereien festival, Zürich, Switzerland. Walks on Water. We will be walking along the banks of the Limmat in Zurich with GPSs. Performative presentation 9 August 19:00, Tanzhaus Zürich.
25 - 30 July, Dan will be in Tokyo showing his GPS drawings as part of dislocate 07.
8 May, Exeter Phoenix, UK, Unfallen
27-30 April, Donau Festival, Krems, Austria. The Institute of Lost Memories and Small Moments - Sphären Versammlung
17 - 21 April, Sensitive Skin, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham. Dan's installation 'These fragments I have shored against my ruins'
2006
26-29 October, Archipuncture, Liverpool Live, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
Urban Voodoo
12-15 October, First Play HAU 2 Berlin
Our House comes to Berlin as part of Trampoline's new festival also featuring Blast Theory and Michelle Teran.
21 September - 15 October, My Home is my Castle, Campshow Steiermark
Steierischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
We spent three weeks roaming the Austrian countryside in search of an intercultural exchange that magically transported us from our mobile home into real homes, spreading the techniques of the good old British cuppa and finding out about local cake culture.
16-17 September, A Bicycle Made for You, Automat festival, Prague
A new interactive video cycling piece for one person at a time as part of the pro-cycling festival in Prague
2 September, Bed Full of Songs, Theatre Museum, London UK
Home, this year is programming a festival of song in the Theatre Museum in Covent Garden.
29 July 14:00-17:00 Peninsula Voices launch
Millennium School, John Harrison Way, Greenwich, London SE10
The launch of our latest locative media piece on the Greenwich Peninsula in South East London commissioned by Independent Photography
14-18 June, Rollende Road Schau, Schwedt/Oder DE
This year the RRS will be in Schwedt on the German/Polish border. We are collaborating with agentur kriwomasow on a piece using a classic American car allowing the people of Schwedt to see their own city in a new light.
16 May 20:00, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, Berlin DE
A presentation of work by Dan in collaboration with other Junge Akademie recipients, the author Peter Adolphsen and composer Peter Köszeghy.
20 April 20:30-24:00, Black market of useful knowledge and non-knowledge, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin DE
This time Dan will present his techniques for capturing all his movements using a GPS in a one-to-one lecture with 100 other 'experts'.
2005
1-4 December,Our House. Radiator festival Nottingham UK
The virtual recreation of a 1930s semi detached house within the Broadway Media Centre in Nottingham
21 October 20:00 Experimentica, Chapter Art Centre Cardiff UK The First Hour
A special version of The Last Hour
9 - 10 September, Mapping Bröllin, GPS activated audio environment. Part of Graspiloten workshop festival Schloss Bröllin, Mecklenburg Vorpommern
4 - 26 August, Der Berg in the Palast der Republik, Berlin, DE Postcards from the Edge, An audio guide with a view
8 July from 20:00, Nach(t) Schlag, Energieleitzentrale, Bremen, DE
Die Bremer Lupe - a new piece responding to the city in the mould of Me the City and Stadtbasteln commissioned by Junges Theater Bremen
22 - 26 June daily from 15:00 - 20:00, Rollende Road Schau,
Alexanderplatz, Berlin, DE
Stimmen über Berlin. A new interactive, locative media project.
With Gob Squad and A-Tipis:
10 - 19 June All day, Oerol Festival, Terschelling, NL
Welcome to our World... built with you in Mind
1 - 3 July All day, Parc de la Villette, Paris, F
Welcome to our world...
22 - 24 July All day, Gentse Feesten, Gent, B
Welcome to our world...
19 May Quizoola, performing with Tim Etchells in existing Forced Entertainment durational performance, Ljubljana
30 April Bed full of Songs, Battersea Arts Centre, London
28 April Curiouser and Curiouser (Sophia New/plan b) Isis Arts, Newcastle, New Media Commission
6 February plan b hosted and powered live web stream to Nottingham through pedal power. Trampoline in Roter Salon, Volksbühne (Transmediale partner event)
26 January Talk about work of plan b as part of Gedanken-strich magazine exhibition
2004
April December Artists in Residence at Podewil, Klosterstr, 68 70, 10179 Berlin, Germany
27 November When no-one was looking I snuck backstage video at Inport Festival, Tallin, Estonia
18-20 November Unfallen, (Daniel Belasco Rogers/plan b) PICA, Perth, Australia, solo lecture demonstration
25-27 November Unfallen, Performance Space, Sydney, Australia (Breathing Space Australian dates supported by the British Council)
23 October The Last Hour, 1 hour performance, Lot Theater, Braunschweig, Germany
16 October How do you keep talking even though you've said everything you thought possible? Experimentica, Chapter Arts, Cardiff. 4 hour durational performance installation
22 July Wonderworld work in progress presentation after residency at Schloss Bröllin during which we rode there from Berlin on a tandem. Podewil, Berlin
12-19 June Stadtbasteln open workshop series culminating in performance at Volksbühnes Rollende Road Schau in Wedding, Berlin
17-21 March When no one was looking I snuck backstage and How I loved you till I could no longer see you (Sophia New/plan b), two video works screened at NRLA, Glasgow
5-27 March Trace& exhibition of Daniel Belasco Rogers GPS drawings, Berliner Kunst, Berlin
19 February Unfallen. As part of the Nordscen workshop, Destination Helsinki, Swedish Theatre, Helsinki
12 January 4 February A description of this place as if you were someone else (Daniel Belasco Rogers/plan b) research project with Mobile Bristol and the Arnolfini into the use of wearable computing, Bristol
2003
15 December The Last Hour (Die Letzte Stunde), 1 hour performance for live audience and radio audience Radioriff festival, Ausland, Berlin
11 December Unfallen, solo (Daniel Belasco Rogers) lecture demonstration. Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium. Arnolfini Bristol Breathing Space commission.
29 November When no one was looking I snuck backstage as part of the artists video works selected by Tim Etchells at A Portrait of Forced Entertainment, Mousonturm, Frankfurt
24-27 October Me the City, site specific live art installation. Using video, performance and a 1/100 scale model of the site. Podewil commission with support from Fonds Darstellender Künste
15 October When no one was looking I snuck backstage (Sophia New/plan b), as part of Experimentica, Chapter Arts Cardiff
22-26 July Launch Option, three-person gallery installation featuring Daniel Belasco Rogers, Sal Randall and Miles Chalcraft at Büro Friedrich, Berlin, organised by the Rocket Shop
17 July When no one was looking I snuck backstage as part of the Blowing Up Film Festival, Turnmills, London
24,25 June Während niemand schaute, schlich ich in die Hinterbühne (Sophia New/plan b), 4.5 min video. Screened at Trampoline festival, Prater Volksbühne, Berlin
28 June How I loved you till I could no longer see you (Sophia New/plan b), 6 min video loop for monitor. Sommerfest, Podewil, Berlin
28 June Bed full of Songs, 5 hour durational installation. Sommerfest Podewil, Berlin. Due to be performed at Home, London, Spring 2005
23 February How do you keep talking even though you've said everything you thought possible, 4 hour performance durational installation. Invited artists, National Review of Live Art, the Arches Glasgow.
18,19 June How do you keep talking even though you've said everything you thought possible, Reich und Berühmt festival at Podewil, Berlin
2002
12,13 December Exquisite Corpse, short video with Alastair Donelly. Trampoline festival, Prater Volksbühne, Berlin
28 June Test-Build web stream from Berlin as part of festival of retro TV festival for Moon Radio, Nottingham and the web
25 May Test-Build, a performative installation charting the history of the Test Card, Trampoline festival as part of the Reich und Berühmt festival at Podewil, Berlin
Company Information
plan b are the artists Sophia New and Daniel Belasco Rogers. We perform together under the name plan b and collaborate on each other's solo works ever since receiving Artsadmin Artists' Bursaries in 2001
plan b make sited works and location-specific performances. We make durational works which explore the dynamics of conversation, singing, confessing and cycling.
Alongside our performances we have made locative media pieces, an audio guide, installations, web streams, workshops, videos and radio pieces.
For more information, download this self interview we made as part of our contribution to Gedanken-strich magazine self interview rtf 13kB>
Contact
We divide our time between Berlin and London but are quite often in neither.
The best thing is to email us using the addresses below:
(replace at and dot with the normal characters)
General enquiries, call for information or simply to contact both of us:
info_at_planbperformance_dot_net
To contact Sophia New:
sophia_at_planbperformance_dot_net
To contact Daniel Belasco Rogers:
dan_at_planbperformance_dot_net
