SIZE OF COMPANY
Varies

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to medium

PERMANENT STAFF
Artist
Sophia New
Artist
Daniel Belasco Rogers

ARTISTIC POLICY
plan b explores the nuances of their relationship with each other, or their relationship to a location, or both – a kind of looking inward and outward at the same time. A lot of their pieces rely on 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.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
The performers in plan b have a kind of commitment – almost ethical, I am tempted to say – to pay attention, to actually continue listening and responding to each other honestly.
Ehren Fordyce, Theatre Journal
The video-walk 'Departures' by plan b stood out as the most complex work [in the festival].
Tom Mustroph, Frankfurter Rundschau (Departures)
In their performances and installations, [plan b] combine sharp observation with cultivated English humour.
Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius, AusFlugHafenSicht Catalogue.

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Bed Full of Songs
A durational performance where two people sit in a double bed, singing all the songs they can remember until the duvet cover is full of the song titles. 3 – 4 hours. Spectators free to come and go. Suitable for theatres / galleries in a festival context. 2 in bed, 3 on the road.
MySpace – YourSpace - OurSpace
A participatory project, suitable for shop windows or public places where people are invited to make their own 'realspace' – an actual glue, paper and object version of a MySpace or Facebook profile. One week residency or more. 3 facilitators, 5 on the road.
The Last Hour
An unrehearsed performance in which two people who share lives together have half an hour each (strictly regulated by chess clock) to say everything they have to say as if it is the last hour they have together. Can only be performed once a year. 1 hour. 2 on stage, 3-4 on the road.
you, me and everywhere we go
A visual art / new media gallery installation of all the everyday movements of two people, captured as GPS tracks and featuring other personal material such as the text messages they send each other. Requires adapting to the exhibition space with a 3-4 day get-in period.
a message to you
An outdoor durational performance where two people shout out all the (unedited) text messages they have sent each other in the preceding year. 3 – 4 hours. 2 performers, 3-4 on the road.

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Into the Light of the Night
A new locative media piece due to go ahead in 2009. A GPS triggered audio and video project where the user walks at night with a portable device, watching video and sounds from the location around them. A commission from Buda Arts Centre in Kortrijk and collaboration with Belgian sound artist Els Viane.

WRAP-AROUND
We are happy to offer tailored workshops for a number of different age groups and interest groups as well as artist talks and lecture presentations about our work. We can also offer technical workshops on aspects of GPS tracking and art-making to a wide variety of skill levels.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008 Finland, Germany: a Message to You
2008 Switzerland: Bed Full of Songs
2007 Austria: Fortysomething
2007 Japan: GPS drawings
2006 Czech Republic: A Bicycle Made for You

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Any dates with prior arrangement