DANIEL BELASCO ROGERS / PLAN B:
"Unfallen"
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"I think about accidents a lot. You could say they were a kind of obsession. I think of them in some way as being the tip of something much bigger and ultimately imperceptible to us. Something like the dark matter in the universe."
Unfallen is a hybrid between artist's talk, wide-ranging lecture demonstration and solo performance. Personal stories, cartography, the witnessing of accidents, and the transposing of one city on another are woven into an hour-long solo show.
For Unfallen I create idiosyncratic maps and objects which are used to illustrate the 'dark matter' of the accidents which intrude into our lives, perhaps changing them for ever. London is re-mapped onto Berlin and they are both mapped onto Frankfurt to find the site of my accidents as if I had had them in the new locations.
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Daniel Belasco Rogers (born 1966) has worked in experimental theatre and live art primarily through Reckless Sleepers, since the company's inception 14 years ago. His first own piece, Falling, he presented 2001 at Toynbee Studios, London. Pursuing further the ideas of location and dislocation, Daniel created a subsequent performance, which was shown at the Cafe Gallery in London in May 2002. His latest piece, Unfallen has been commissioned by the Arnolfini in Bristol with the first performance in February 2003 and subsequent performances in Manchester, Gent, Helsinki, and later this year in Sydney and Perth. Since April 2003 he has obsessively recorded each new street he comes across with a Global Positioning System, which has led to a workshop in Nottingham and two exhibitions in Berlin concerning this area of his practise. Earlier this year he received a commission from Mobile Bristol and the Arnolfini to look at the artistic possibilities of audio material delivered in situ through the combined use of Personal Digital Assistants and Global Positioning Systems.
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