Borderline Visible brings a photobook to life in a performance that fuses soundscape and narration. A 77-minute experience, scored with music by Oren Ambarchi and Perila, pieces together value and meaning from the human ruins of aspiration, history, and language, shifting back and forth along a journeyed path between Lausanne, Switzerland, and Izmir, Turkey.

Time Based Editions’ ingenious new format offers ‘audio-visual’ as two separate elements, held together in the present through a physical synchronization of our hands. Together we dive into a here-and-now of the page: printed photography brought to life by a soundscape that both guides and surrounds us. Ant Hampton’s careful, at times miraculous process of reconnection gradually lights up a constellation of voices and earthquakes, Sephardic diasporas, and forced relocation, as we journey along this eastern edge of Europe.

“The beauty of the collective experience is that it does feel more like a live event, which increases the attention and urgency. In the theatre auditorium, Borderline Visible truly feels like a journey through space and time.” - Marijn Lems, Theaterkrant

Ant Hampton (b. 1975) is a noted British-German performance artist and writer, who in 2023 co-founded Time Based Editions with David Bergé. This is the first performance of Borderline Visible in California. It has been performed at ExtraCity Kunsthall, Antwerp, Belgium; IDFA, OnStage, Amsterdam; Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels; and Vidy Théâtre, Lausanne, Switzerland.

The presentation of Borderline Visible is underwritten by the Early and Shirley Greif Charitable Foundation.

Each ticket includes the purchase of the book Borderline Visible by Ant Hampton—to be distributed preceding the performance.

CREDITS:

Created by Ant Hampton

Feedback: David Bergé
Book design: Roland Brauchli

Music:
Fever, A Warm Poison by Oren Ambarchi. From the album In The Pendulum's Embrace (2007)
Corridor Between Days by Perila (2022)
Quixotism Parts 1 and 2, by Oren Ambarchi. From the album Quixotism (2014)

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

Time Based Editions is an imprint of PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPANDED PUBLISHING ATHENS

Created with the support of:
The Resonance Foundation (Los Angeles)
Bimeras (Istanbul / Berlin)
Théâtre Vidy (Lausanne)

Research and prototype support:
Lita House of Production and Kundura Stage (Istanbul)
National Theatre of Northern Greece (Thessaloniki)