Knotted Time is a carpet representing of our GPS data. We are fascinated with the idea that pattern, alongside its decorative function also encodes information. In many traditions of carpet and textile making all over the world, patterns can represent...

Since 2003 (Dan) and 2007 (Sophia), we have recorded every movement we make outside with a GPS. It traces our paths wherever we go, throughout our daily lives and during our travels outside of our home city, Berlin. We are the only people to have such...

On this page an archive of GPS maps from different years and different places is kept. Berlin (All My Journeys in Berlin. Daniel Belasco Rogers Animation 2003 - 2012) (All Our Journeys in Berlin 2007 - 2012 Daniel Belasco Rogers and Sophia...

The Day the Books Took Off was a sited piece for the International English Library in Düsseldorf for the 'Stadtprojekt: Wenn die Häuser Trauer Tragen' - (When the Buildings Carry Grief) as part of Impulse Festival in 2018. The extension to t...

This commission for Depot Erbe considers the paths and journeys that the citizens of Freiburg take on a daily basis. Drawing on the pieces that we have made for Birmingham and Leuven , we have this time also included extra video footage shot on...

The Last Hour is one of plan b's series of works with spontaneous, real time text. Like How Do You Keep Talking , what we say is not rehearsed or set but happens in the moment. We set ourselves the task of saying everything we have left out of our...

A Message to You was originally conceived for the Väinölänniemi Stadium in Kuopio as part of the Anti Festival in Finland. Alongside the collection of every journey we make , we also archive every text message we send each other. The task of th...

In a double bed, sing as many songs as we can remember. Write the song title and name of the recording artist/s on the duvet cover. No two consecutive songs should be by the same artist. For a song to count, it must be at least...

The Austrian festival steirischer herbst began in 1967. Since then, the town of Graz has hosted many of the major names in contemporary art, music, theatre and performance. We started from the idea of what would it be like, if the locations could...

Is technology making us move through life too fast? Is there still space for the spiritual in an increasingly technologised and known world? When were you last fully whole? Soul Lines is based on the idea that the soul can only travel at (camel or...

play! leipzig Conference and performance festival 24 - 27 june 2010 The Monday Walks were inspired by the demonstrations that took place in Leipzig leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and beyond, the so-called Montagsdemonstrationen...

Using software specially written by Peter Vasil , All journeys between 2007 and 2011 were redrawn, line by line during exhibition opening hours at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin as part of the exhibition Tracing Mobility curated by Trampoline...

All Our Traces in Berlin 2011 (2012) Two panels of acrylic 42 x 60 cm each with laser engraving from reverse. To make this piece, we had all our collected GPS traces for the year 2011 engraved into sheets of clear acrylic with a laser. Installation...

Two sheets of 20mm granite, polished on top face, each 42 x 60 cm, laser engraved with text (2012) A list is compiled of every place for which we have GPS data using self-written open source software and ordered by the total amount of time moving...

In 2014, Dan took part in a residency and group exhibition called 'Walks and Traces Off the Map ' at the Salzamt in Linz, Austria, organised by the artist Sibylle Ettengruber . While there he built the second 'drawing machine' which straps to the...

Two panels, archival ink pen plot on Accademia paper, mounted on aluminium 42 x 60 cm each (2012) Photo: Belasco New Zoomed in map from the GPS record of all tracks recorded around the front door of the flat we lived in for five years in Kreuzberg,...

Every Text Message We Sent Each Other in 2011 (2012) Dot Matrix printer paper, text messages, dimensions vary. Installation shot Art Laboratory Berlin photo: Belasco & New Belasco & New have collected every text message the have sent...

The Printing of Every Text Message We Sent Each Other Since 2007 (2011) Dot matrix printer, Processing software by Peter Vasil, plinth. Dimensions and time variable. installation shot Tracing Mobility Photo: Manuel Reinartz For the exhibition...

Using GPS traces, we are making a living portrait of 24 hours in Birmingham with the people who move through its streets, parks, waste grounds and tow paths on foot for the Fierce Festival and the Midlands Art Centre (MAC) A Day in the Life - The...

For the year 2011 Belasco & New reported their moods three times a day using Android smartphone software written by Peter Vasil . A collaboration with the MRL and Nottingham University, one outcome of this data collection were 1718 report cards...

For the Artefact Festival in Stuk , Leuven (BE), we developed a new collaborative GPS piece called Crossing Paths, building on what we did in Birmingham for A Day in the Life . Crossing Paths is both an installation of the collaborative map (thanks...

Narrating Our Lines (2007 & 2010). Two-channel video installation. 1 hr synchronised loop. DV, Sound, Openframeworks animation Narrating Our Lines is a task, performed to video in 2010, of playing an animation of GPS traces from Belasco &...

six micro-films in search of 'bike angels' in prague A bicycle made for you was a new piece made especially for the anti-car / pro-cycling festival auto*mat in Prague, September 2006. A bicycle made for you was a play on the song 'Daisy Bell'...

walks on water 2 - 9 august 2007, stromereien festival, tanzhaus zürich Methinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow, as if I had given vent to the stream at the lower end and consequently new fountains flowed into ...

Having made Test Build , we were inspired by the performative possibilities of the clown and little girl from Test Card F being trapped together for 70,000 hours while the British public looked on. Thinking about situations in which people are ...

Taking inspiration from the do-it-yourself art programmes from their childhood, we decided to recreate the images that have had more air-time than any other programme: Test Cards. Considered by some as the most interesting programmes on television,...

introduction Urban voodoo is a project, in which we created a physical model of Liverpool and how it might exist in the memories and imaginations of those who have lived and worked in it. Our idea was to treat the city not just as a place to live,...

Wonderworld was a performance that used a bicycle tour on a tandem as its central metaphor and research material. Using the opportunity of a small residency at Schloß Bröllin in Mecklenburg Vorpommern, we decided to cycle the 130km distance through t...

Working with miniatures has been on our minds for some time now, alongside of a desire to make work about 'where we are' and to really investigate the specific areas where our work is presented. By miniaturising an area that we did not know well...

buda, kortrijk, belgium Imagine that all of your life could be lived on one small island not even a kilometre long. There you could be born into the maternity hospital, go to kindergarten, school get a job through the job centre or work at the...

For X-Wohnungen, part of 16th International Schillertage at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, we developed a new audio piece to be played to two people at a time while they lie on a double bed in an empty apartment in a poor suburb of Mannheim, looking...

How to Leave Without Going Anywhere Departures is a video walk especially made to guide you through the terminal building of Leipzig/Halle airport. Four specially adapted luggage trolleys are available and once equipped with headphones, the participant...

Imagine that the city could record the thoughts and memories of the people who live there. So that as you walk around the streets and squares of Graz, you could hear voices talking about the artwork that was and still is around you, artwork from the...

An audio tour as part of the Philosophen Weg (philosopher's path) around the mountain in the Palast der Republik in Berlin. Der Berg (the mountain) was the last artistic project before the building is demolished. In a city as flat as Berlin it...

Think of the hustle and bustle of Alexanderplatz - all those passing people, trams, punks, hot dog sellers, lottery callers, buskers and religious preachers. In such a noisy place what would it be like to be able to hear the stories and thoughts of the...

the chance to create your own RealSpace (NOT trademarked) Participants in MySpace — YourSpace — OurSpace created RealSpace profiles and networks with like-minded people in 'reality.' Participants filled out the account questionnaire (not on a computer, but...

time: 3-5 july, 4-10pm daily place: ihre veränderungsschneiderei, bahnstr. 59 hides: bismarckplatz, bahnstr. corner of auguststr., packhofstr. Walking through the streets of Wittenberge in July, you will see the results of plan b's work with ...

introduction The Institute of Lost Memories and Small Moments was created for Ersatzverkehr/Urban Lies ' Sphären Versammlung, which was premiered at the Donau Festival in Krems in April 2007. While the other artists in the Sphären Versammlung ...

introduction Arriving in a village that we had never been to before, was as plan b set about making ouselves at home. As rather extravagant and eccentric nomads, and somewhat fresh to caravanning, we set about claiming a small piece of land and making...

a collaboration between plan b and agentur kriwomasow This is a present from a small, distant world; a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into...

Working in the Berlin district of Wedding on the former 'Rotaprint Block' (an area that was once dominated by the printers Rotaprint) Stadtbasteln brought personal narratives and city architectures together. It was a project that acted like the two...

Unfallen is a solo lecture performance, charting three accidents that happened to me growing up in London as ways of exploring memory, location and displacement. Each time Unfallen is performed, I lay the locations of these accidents over the place...

These fragments... is two films running from two synchronised DVDs. They document two walks, one from 363 Radford Road (my first student flat) to the Waverley Building (my college) and one walk which I made in Berlin derived from a transposition of...

Our House projects the 1930s semi-detached house my father grew up in, I grew up in and in which my mother still lives into another larger building, as if a ghost house from a different dimension co-existed within its walls. The spectator doesn't...

berlin in lübben, lübben in berlin The two sites in Lübben, Spreewald were geographically laid over Berlin, using a notion of a centre point in both cities and an identical distance and direction measurement. (This is a technique I use in my performance le...