Our House
Daniel Belasco Rogers (plan b)
Broadway Cinema
Thu 1 Dec – Fri 2 Dec 11am – 7pm
Sat 3 Dec - Sun 4 Dec 12pm – 7pm
£3.50 (£2.50 concessions)
In 1936 a young couple got off a train at a brand new station and looked at a house on a new estate in South East London. It was the first house to be built in the immediate area; the very edge of London. The young couple were Daniel Belasco Rogers’ grandparents and that house is where his father grew up, he grew up and his mother still lives. It is the house he explored as he learnt to walk, a house written indelibly into his body and informing his image of every house.
Our House will trace this 1930s semi-detached house onto Broadway, as if a ghost house from a different dimension co-existed within the walls of the media centre. Using location sensing devices to trigger an interactive audio tour, you don’t just see the house as it stands today, but encounter all the layers the house contains. Old family photographs yield details of carpet or wallpaper. Hear the voices of those who have lived there, the taps running, the fridge, the creak on the third and tenth step of the staircase.
Daniel Belasco Rogers was born in South East London in 1966. He studied Theatre Design at the then Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham between 1986-89. Between 1989 and 2002 he was an integral part of Reckless Sleepers experimental theatre company. In 2001 he received an Artsadmin Artists Bursary to develop his own solo work. He presented his first piece, Falling, at Toynbee Studios, London in August of that year. He was subsequently commissioned to make Unfallen by the Arnolfini in Bristol with the first performance in February 2003 and subsequent performances in Manchester, Gent, Helsinki, Sydney and Perth. This performance lecture investigates personal history through accidents and the process of the projection of one city onto another.
In 2002 he formed plan b with his partner, Sophia New to support each other’s solo practices as well as producing work collaboratively. Since April 2003 he has obsessively recorded each journey he makes with a Global Positioning System. In 2004 he began an association with Mobile Bristol that has led to locative media projects in England and Germany.
Daniel Belasco Rogers (plan b)
Broadway Cinema
Thu 1 Dec – Fri 2 Dec 11am – 7pm
Sat 3 Dec - Sun 4 Dec 12pm – 7pm
£3.50 (£2.50 concessions)
In 1936 a young couple got off a train at a brand new station and looked at a house on a new estate in South East London. It was the first house to be built in the immediate area; the very edge of London. The young couple were Daniel Belasco Rogers’ grandparents and that house is where his father grew up, he grew up and his mother still lives. It is the house he explored as he learnt to walk, a house written indelibly into his body and informing his image of every house.
Our House will trace this 1930s semi-detached house onto Broadway, as if a ghost house from a different dimension co-existed within the walls of the media centre. Using location sensing devices to trigger an interactive audio tour, you don’t just see the house as it stands today, but encounter all the layers the house contains. Old family photographs yield details of carpet or wallpaper. Hear the voices of those who have lived there, the taps running, the fridge, the creak on the third and tenth step of the staircase.
Daniel Belasco Rogers was born in South East London in 1966. He studied Theatre Design at the then Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham between 1986-89. Between 1989 and 2002 he was an integral part of Reckless Sleepers experimental theatre company. In 2001 he received an Artsadmin Artists Bursary to develop his own solo work. He presented his first piece, Falling, at Toynbee Studios, London in August of that year. He was subsequently commissioned to make Unfallen by the Arnolfini in Bristol with the first performance in February 2003 and subsequent performances in Manchester, Gent, Helsinki, Sydney and Perth. This performance lecture investigates personal history through accidents and the process of the projection of one city onto another.
In 2002 he formed plan b with his partner, Sophia New to support each other’s solo practices as well as producing work collaboratively. Since April 2003 he has obsessively recorded each journey he makes with a Global Positioning System. In 2004 he began an association with Mobile Bristol that has led to locative media projects in England and Germany.