Daniel Belasco Rogers
(Re)Discovering The City
Intensive Workshop, English/Deutsch, 2 SWS, 2 ECTS
2 Weekends: Saturday/Sunday, 10-18 h on 10.5./11.5. & 17.5./18.5.2025, Hybrid-Lab, Marchstr. 8

Registration on Moodle starts on 14.4.2025: https://moodle.udk-berlin.de/moodle/course/view.php?id=2660
Enrollment Key: map

The 4 day intensive workshop looks at the ways in which we can both be inspired by and change our relationship to the city. We will examine artistic strategies such as Pyschogeography, Situationism, algorithmic walking, GPS and performance intervention. The workshop is a means of (re)considering and (re)discovering a city you may know well or not be so familiar with.

We will be walking, sharing, tracing, map-making, playing and developing strategies to see the city anew. Through set tasks inspired by the work of artist such as Sophie Calle, Janet Cardiff, Gob Squad, Francis Alÿs and Tehching Hseih we will be working to find modes of being in, reflecting on and performing the city. As a significant part of the workshop will take place outside, participants should be prepared for working out of doors in summer (sun protection, hat and water necessary).

Fulfilment criteria for ungraded accreditation: Regular and engaged attendance, completion of assigned tasks.

Daniel Belasco Rogers studied art at St. Martin’s College in London and Theatre Design in Nottingham (at a time when there were still Polytechnics and student grants in the UK). He spent the 1990s touring, performing, making sound tracks, lighting, co-designing and co-directing the English Live Art company Reckless Sleepers. After receiving an Arts Admin Bursary in 2000, he toured with the solo lecture performance piece Unfallen in Europe and Australia. He has been exclusively using Free and Open Score Software in his artistic practice since 2008. Since first holding a GPS in the Scottish Highlands in 2003, Belasco Rogers has recorded every journey he makes. In 2002 Sophia New and Dan Belasco Rogers initiated a collaborative artistic duo called plan b, making a broad range of performance, fine art, community participatory projects, audio, new media and installation work. He was a member of the Junge Akademie at the Akademie der Künste in 2006. He has taught live art, new media, performance and GPS workshops in Europe, North America, Brazil, Japan and China. From 2020 until 2023 he was a guest professor on Studium Generale at the University of the Arts Berlin. As well as nearly two decades of projects made with Sophia New as plan b, he has worked as a performer and collaborator with the independent theatre companies Forced Entertainment, Gob Squad, She She Pop and Club Real; and the choreographers Alice Chauchat, Juan Domínguez, Arantxa Martínez and Sabine Zahn. A lifelong autodidact, he continues to learn and deepen his love of psychogeography, open hardware and software, drawing machines, dowsing, megalithic sites, permaculture, gardening, worm composting, foraging, fermenting, taijiquan, qigong and earth based spirituality. More information on https://planbperformance.net.