Ant Hampton & Time Based Editions
Borderline Visible
Audio & visual experience
Ticket price includes a copy of the book, which contains a link to the audio track and can therefore be experienced again individually at any point, in multiple languages.
Borderline Visible begins as a journey from Lausanne to Izmir in 2022 by two artist friends, one of whom must stop. As the other continues towards Turkey, suddenly alone, the narration grows into a moving and troubled psychogeography as it shifts between ‘we’ and ‘I,’ present and past, piecing together value and meaning from the very human ruins of aspiration, history and language.
Ant Hampton’s careful, at times miraculous, process of reconnection gradually lights up a constellation: voices and earthquakes, the Sephardic diaspora, tourism and forced movement, breakdowns and dementia, the end of the Ottoman Empire, swifts and swallows, Eliot’s The Waste Land and an urgent insight into hidden atrocities at the edge of Europe being funded from its centre.
Ant Hampton is co-director of the Time Based Editions series, publisher of Borderline Visible. As with all Time Based Editions, an audio track combines narration, soundscape and instructions that guide you over a given time through the book. Ticket price includes a copy of the book, which can be experienced again individually at any point in multiple languages.
“The book-as-performance becomes a kind of “survival process” that illuminates those excluded from the country of the visible.” —Daniel Sack
“Your understanding of what a book can be will change forever.” —Lara Pawson
“Hampton has been creating an international furore for years with his autoteatro performance works without actors … ‘Borderline Visible’ is an extraordinary experience … The interplay between soundscape and picture book works perfectly. Sometimes pages are black or you have to close your eyes, like black-outs in a film. Some pages you have to let slide past your fingers like an old filmstrip – then the landscape passes you by. Thus history, politics and art come together poignantly, in an intelligent work in which, after Hampton, the audience travels their own journey.” —De Volkskrant (NL) ★★★★☆
“an extremely engaging psychogeographical framework constantly enriched by Hampton’s searching mind and razor-sharp political rage.” —Marijn Lems, Theaterkrant (NL)
“…distilled with subtlety and humanity… A magnificent way of approaching politics through exploration, extended time, and touch.” —Marie-Pierre Genecand, Le Temps (CH)
Winner of the IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam) 2023 DocLab award for Creative Technologies.
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Borderline Visible (collective experience)
by Ant Hampton / Time Based Editions
voice & sound, english version: Ant Hampton
for all other language versions, see timebasededitions.com
published in 2023 by Time Based Editions
a series directed by David Bergé and Ant Hampton
book design: Roland Brauchli
copy editing and proofreading: Neil Bennun
feedback: David Bergé
Music: Perila, Oren Ambarchi
created with support from:
The Resonance Foundation (Los Angeles)
Bimeras (Istanbul / Berlin)
Théâtre Vidy (Lausanne)
research facilitated by Lita House of Production / Beykoz Kundura (Istanbul)
Executive Financial Management: Platform 0090 (Antwerp)
Based on a project conceived with Rita Pauls
with thanks to Pieter Ampe, Giorgos Antoniou, Sae Bosco and Samos Volunteers, Yannick Christian, Hani Dunia, Effi & Amir, Tim Etchells, Katy Fallon, Martin Hampton, Britt Hatzius, Leo Kay, LAPS, Camille Louis, Eva Neklyaeva, Beyhan Onur, Anelka Tavares, Prodromos Tsinikoris, Giulia de Vecchi, Anny Y
instagram – @time_based_editions
Borderline Visible (2023) is the first iteration in the Time Based Editions series. Time Based Editions is an imprint of PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPANDED PUBLISHING ATHENS.
Ant Hampton (1975, CH) is a British-German performance maker and writer. His work since 1999 has often involved guiding people through unrehearsed situations and interactive relations, using automated devices. From 1998 until 2009 he worked in / as Rotozaza.
Together with David Bergé, he co-founded Time Based Editions in 2023, starting with his own project, Borderline Visible. His “Autoteatro” works tour internationally in over 80 language versions, some of them without anyone needing to travel – a paradoxical outcome for an art committed to liveness and presence which in turn informed his Covid-era advocacy and researchproject: ShowingWithoutGoing.live – an Atlas.
In more recent years his practice has expanded into a wider investigation of risk-taking and leaps of faith, for example with The Thing – An Automatic Workshop in Everyday Disruption, created with Christophe Meierhans.
A new series of work with Alice De Crais called phased / romantic began in 2025.
While this performance does not have reserved seating, we are happy to accommodate any specific accessibility needs.
Please reach out to Adriana at boxoffice@ps21chatham.org, and she will coordinate with our front-of-house team to ensure your experience is comfortable and enjoyable.
