plan b – The re-drawing of everywhere we’ve been in Berlin since 2007

plan b – The re-drawing of everywhere we’ve been in Berlin since 2007 / live drawing
24.11.11 and 25.11.11 from 11am – 3pm

The re-drawing of everywhere we’ve been in Berlin since 2007
Among other things, Sophia New and Dan Belasco Rogers of Plan b, document every step they take, the latter since 2003, the former since 2007. This documentation of mobility is tracked and recorded by GPS, saved and archived to visualise a couple’s mark (marking and remarking) on the world.

In The re-drawing of everywhere we’ve been in Berlin since (2007), Plan b literally redraws everywhere they’ve been in Berlin since 2007. Using the saved GPS data that traces every journey the artists’ have made in Berlin since 2007, the two re-draw each and every fragment of their journeys. This often involves re-iterating the same mark hundreds of times, as for instance the familiar journey to and from home.

During the exhibition, Plan b will perform this daunting feat of re-performing through re-tracing their every step. The ‘tracks’ will be projected onto a drawing surface in which both artists will trace their journey chronologically, manually line by line. They will talk, as they proceed, about the memories that this undertaking prompts, the changes of living spaces and the extraordinary and quotidian trips across the city they have made home. The end result will be two carefully drawn images of the roads they have travelled down in Berlin, revealing a personal map of a city’s use over five years. In witnessing the visualisation of one’s archived mobility, what is conjured up is not only ‘traction’ but also an accumulated life literally moving in the world, in time and as ever transient.

Photo: plan b