what is plan b?
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's first piece was Test Build in 2002. Since then, we've made over 20 pieces together.
What we do
Our output, both as plan b and as individual artists, covers a number of different contexts and media. Sophia works with video and video installations and Dan continues his lecture performances and exhibitions of GPS maps. Together, we make installations, work on paper, durational performances, locative media projects, walking and theatre pieces. Works that have been situated in stairwells, airports (this project and this one), hotel bedrooms, shop windows, galleries, city squares, open fields, on bicycles and even in theatres.
Different types of work
There are a number of ways of accessing our work through the web site. You can browse by category or look at a list. There are more information about each category on these pages:
browse projects by category
browse projects by list
complete chronological list of projects (calendar)
intentions (a statement)
We like to stay around, learn about a place, try and respond to the particularity of that place and of ourselves; be honest about our responses and about the fact that we have travelled to get there. Our work is site-specific and relationship-specific. Two faces of the same coin. We either explore the nuances of our own relationship or our relationship to a location or both - a kind of looking inward and outward at the same time. A lot of our pieces rely on something we call 'real time text' (a term that we would like to thank Heike Roms for). This is material that is developed on the spot and either presented to an audience in the moment or recorded and made available through a locative media project or video / audio walk.
For more information, download this self interview we made as part of our contribution to Gedanken-strich magazine self interview rtf
Chronological list of all works
Download company CVs and other texts