MEDIATHEK

Sophia New was born in South London in 1974. Her first degree was in Philosophy Literature and German. After receiving her Masters degree in Feminist Performance at Bristol University in 1998, she made her first solo piece, Jammy Lips, which was performed at Battersea Arts Centre, London and eXpo, Nottingham in 1999. She received a Breathing Space Commission from the Arnolfini, Bristol in January 2000. The piece she made, Feeling Poorly, was shown in four festivals: NOW, Nottingham; Site Gallery, Sheffield; Xtracts, Manchester; Inbetween Time, Bristol; as well as in venues in Belgium and London. In her most recent solo piece, The Letters Project, Sophia creates a live archive performance. Installing herself in an arts-related workspace, she performs by curating her own personal collection of letters and exhibiting them for visitors. Sophia has also worked as a theatre/performance writer and journalist for the magazines Venue, Live Art Magazine and the Open Page Journal. She has also contributed a series of images based on Feeling Poorly for On Smell, published by the Performance Research Journal. Most recently Sophia has made two new video pieces, which have been shown in festivals in Berlin, Cardiff, London, Frankfurt and Glasgow Alongside solo shows she has collaborated with the British experimental theatre company Reckless Sleepers, the Belgian company Kowboy Kaos, with Andreas Kebelmann in Die Story Der Schwarzen Mamba and in Emily on the Rocks with Penelope Wehrli. She has also performed in a number of short films. In 2001 she and Daniel Belasco Rogers co-founded plan b