In Sophia’s solo performance and video works she is specifically interested in issues of the changing female body as well as the everyday, distance, intimacy and scale within art making. Her works have been shown in Expo festival, Nottingham, National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, Chapter Arts Cardiff, Podewil, Uferstudios, Dock 11 in Berlin, IMAI in Düsseldorf and Dortmund Künstlerhaus.
She is also performer, video maker and co-founder of plan b with Daniel Belasco Rogers. Since 2002 they have made over 30 projects for different cities, festivals, and galleries. plan b has allowed Sophia and Daniel to make a wide variety of works in the fields of fine art, performance, new media and sited works: they consider their work to be both site and relationship specific. Through their long term practice of gathering personal data (GPS & SMS) they have an on going body of work which takes many material forms both analogue and digital, and has caused them to become more politicised about how daily data is being used.
She has a background in Philosophy & Literature with German from Sussex University and received her Masters in Feminist Performance in Bristol and her PhD from Exeter University in 2022 entitled Transforming personal GPS data through performance: movement, memory and time.
She has taught on performance courses in Gloucester University, Aberystwyth University and Das Arts in Amsterdam, as well as giving a courses on Urban Interventions with Daniel Belasco Rogers at the Hafen City University Hamburg, Leipzig University and Art school and Bard and University of the Arts in Berlin. She co-taught workshops in Live Art and Performance at Folkwang University, Essen/Bochum for 12 years to the Physical Theatre, Acting and Directing Students. Sophia taught at the Inter University of the Arts (HZT/UdK) in Berlin between 2012 and 2022, mainly on the MA Solo Dance Authorship but also on the other two courses and developed the Makers Open as a format for all students to show and feedback on work at any stage.
Between 2020–2022, with Daniel Belasco Rogers, she was a Guest Professor on the University of the Arts Berlin for the Studium Generale where they both taught and curated on the Interdiscplinary Art a Practice and Theory. She was the Course Leader of MA Performance: Theatre Making and MA Performance: Politics and Social Justice at the University of the Arts London from 2022–2024. She is currently a lecturer on the MA Performing Arts as Critical Practice at Malmö Theatre Academy in Sweden.
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