01
Borderline Visible, 2023
by Ant Hampton
77
minutes232
pagesCreated by the artist Ant Hampton, who is also co-director of the Time Based Editions series.
Shifting back and forth along a line between Lausanne and Izmir, this 77-minute experience pieces together value and meaning from the very human ruins of aspiration, history, and language.
︎ENGLISH
︎FRANÇAIS
︎NEDERLANDS
︎ITALIANO
Edition 01
Borderline Visible
by Ant Hampton
77
minutes232
pagesINCLUDING WORLDWIDE SHIPPING
Live / collective event version - info here
“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 is created by the artist Ant Hampton, who is also co-director of the Time Based Editions series. With a deep focus on liveness, his performance work since 1999 has often involved guiding people through unrehearsed situations using automated devices and a subtle use of instructions and narration.
As with all Time Based Editions (about), an audio track combines narration, soundscape, and instructions that guide you over a given time through the book. See a demo video here.
The work is also experienced collectively as a live event for audiences, presented in theatre, film, sound art and music festivals, museums, book fairs and many other contexts. More info here.
Borderline Visible begins as a journey from Lausanne to Izmir in 2022 by two artist friends, one of whom experiences health problems halfway and has to 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.
ARTIST INFO ︎︎︎
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. His three collaborations with Tim Etchells are participative experiences for two at a time, combining audio with different engagements with the page: text and silent reading (The Quiet Volume, 2010); archive photography (Lest We See, 2015); and mark-making/ erasure (Not to Scale, 2020). 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. These and many other of his “Autoteatro” works continue to tour internationally in over 80 language versions, some of them without anyone needing to travel – an oxymoronic outcome for an art committed to liveness and presence which in turn informed his 2021 advocacy and researchproject: ShowingWithoutGoing.live – an Atlas.
Together with David Bergé, he co-founded Time Based Editions in 2023.
anthampton.com
CREDITS ︎︎︎
Borderline Visible, 77 min, 232 pages by Ant Hampton
Voice & sound, english version: Ant Hampton
Feedback: David Bergé
Book design: Roland Brauchli
Image retouching: Flavio Milani
Copy-editing: Neil Bennun
Printing and binding: SYL (Barcelona)
Typefaces: Elante, Rom and Unica
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
Published in 2023 by Time Based Editions
ISBN: 9789464772609
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)
- 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
Borderline Visible is created by the artist Ant Hampton, who is also co-director of the Time Based Editions series. With a deep focus on liveness, his performance work since 1999 has often involved guiding people through unrehearsed situations using automated devices and a subtle use of instructions and narration.
As with all Time Based Editions (about), an audio track combines narration, soundscape, and instructions that guide you over a given time through the book. See a demo video here.
The work is also experienced collectively as a live event for audiences, presented in theatre, film, sound art and music festivals, museums, book fairs and many other contexts. More info here.
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Borderline Visible begins as a journey from Lausanne to Izmir in 2022 by two artist friends, one of whom experiences health problems halfway and has to 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.
ARTIST INFO ︎︎︎
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. His three collaborations with Tim Etchells are participative experiences for two at a time, combining audio with different engagements with the page: text and silent reading (The Quiet Volume, 2010); archive photography (Lest We See, 2015); and mark-making/ erasure (Not to Scale, 2020). 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. These and many other of his “Autoteatro” works continue to tour internationally in over 80 language versions, some of them without anyone needing to travel – an oxymoronic outcome for an art committed to liveness and presence which in turn informed his 2021 advocacy and researchproject: ShowingWithoutGoing.live – an Atlas.
Together with David Bergé, he co-founded Time Based Editions in 2023.
anthampton.com
CREDITS ︎︎︎
Borderline Visible, 77 min, 232 pages by Ant Hampton
Voice & sound, english version: Ant Hampton
Feedback: David Bergé
Book design: Roland Brauchli
Image retouching: Flavio Milani
Copy-editing: Neil Bennun
Printing and binding: SYL (Barcelona)
Typefaces: Elante, Rom and Unica
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
Published in 2023 by Time Based Editions
ISBN: 9789464772609
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)
Borderline Visible by Ant Hampton:
Collectively
- presented as a live event for audiences - each holding a book, guided by an immersive soundtrack from surrounding speakers, and occasionally plunged into darkness.
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For full info about Borderline Visible - content, concept, documentation - see here
Time Based Editions’ ingenious new format offers ‘audio-visual’ as two separate elements, held together here in a shared, collective present through a physical synchronisation of our hands. Together we dive into a here-and-now of the page: printed photography brought alive by a soundscape that both guides and surrounds us.
“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, for Theaterkrant
What’s the difference between experiencing it collectively and doing it alone?
Partly, it’s the same difference between seeing a movie at home and in a cinema with others. Especially when, as here, the material and story gets to a place where bearing witness collectively feels necessary.
But with Time Based Editions we are not simply watching a film.
We become aware of movement around us - a choreographed ‘echo’ of our own page-turning; fingers tracing lines together, a book being turned upside down in sync with others.
With this awareness our attention is brought away from image and representation and more to the book as a material object and our embodied relationship with it.
Sometimes the prompts to ‘close your eyes’ are not present in the collective version. Instead, the light may fade or disappear entirely leaving us momentarily holding our books in darkness as the sound continues.
In some setups it may be preferable to have audiences on synchronised headphones, but in general the awareness of listening to the same sound source (surrounding speakers) adds to a sense of collective involvement - which feels ever more poignant as the narration builds.
Contexts ︎︎︎
Images above from IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam) DocLab 2023, where Borderline Visible won the 2023 award for Creative Technologies.
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The collective experience is being presented in diverse contexts: theatres (Vidy, Lausanne), museums and galleries (Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels / Kunsthall ExtraCity, Antwerp), film festivals, and coming up in 2024 - photography, journalism and music festivals...
Usually it’s additionally offered to audiences to experience alone, on headphones, within calm installations condusive to concentration. This also allows for access to the work in the other available languages. Photo shows the install within IDFA DocLab exhibition, click to enlarge:
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It may also be sited in locations that resonate with the narration, or thematics (e.g. the National Theatre of Northern Greece presented the work in the former home of one of Thessaloniki’s important Jewish families).
Some practical info ︎︎︎
Venue and audience numbers - 40 recommended minimum; no maximum.
Books
- can be used multiple times over several presentations, and sold at a discount following the last performance.
- alternatively they can be included with the ticket price.
- they must be ordered at wholesale price (about 50% of retail price), sold at retail price: host organisation keeps profit
Either way, audiences should be able to go home with a copy if they wish. The book, a ‘charged’ trace of the time-based experience, allows for the multiple strands of the story to resonate and deepen long afterwards. There are also further pages to discover that are not touched on by the audio.
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Audience all seated on seats that are positioned equidistant, and facing in different directions.
If in a theatre, it can be either on stage or ideally take up the whole space, with tribune pushed back.
In this photo from Vidy Lausanne there are 40 chairs. The tribune (green and yellow) was an existing installation. The speakers are behind, and above.
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How we run it︎︎︎
The lights and sound run together, automatically, via MIDI cues from either an Ableton Live project, or a QLab project.
When this isn’t possible technically the cues can be launched manually from the lighting desk.
For a full tech rider, please contact us: info@timebasededitions.com
“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, for Theaterkrant
What’s the difference between experiencing it collectively and doing it alone?
Partly, it’s the same difference between seeing a movie at home and in a cinema with others. Especially when, as here, the material and story gets to a place where bearing witness collectively feels necessary.
But with Time Based Editions we are not simply watching a film.
We become aware of movement around us - a choreographed ‘echo’ of our own page-turning; fingers tracing lines together, a book being turned upside down in sync with others.
With this awareness our attention is brought away from image and representation and more to the book as a material object and our embodied relationship with it.
Sometimes the prompts to ‘close your eyes’ are not present in the collective version. Instead, the light may fade or disappear entirely leaving us momentarily holding our books in darkness as the sound continues.
In some setups it may be preferable to have audiences on synchronised headphones, but in general the awareness of listening to the same sound source (surrounding speakers) adds to a sense of collective involvement - which feels ever more poignant as the narration builds.
Contexts ︎︎︎
Images above from IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam) DocLab 2023, where Borderline Visible won the 2023 award for Creative Technologies.
The collective experience is being presented in diverse contexts: theatres (Vidy, Lausanne), museums and galleries (Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels / Kunsthall ExtraCity, Antwerp), film festivals, and coming up in 2024 - photography, journalism and music festivals...
Usually it’s additionally offered to audiences to experience alone, on headphones, within calm installations condusive to concentration. This also allows for access to the work in the other available languages. Photo shows the install within IDFA DocLab exhibition, click to enlarge:
It may also be sited in locations that resonate with the narration, or thematics (e.g. the National Theatre of Northern Greece presented the work in the former home of one of Thessaloniki’s important Jewish families).
Some practical info ︎︎︎
Venue and audience numbers - 40 recommended minimum; no maximum.
Books
- can be used multiple times over several presentations, and sold at a discount following the last performance.
- alternatively they can be included with the ticket price.
- they must be ordered at wholesale price (about 50% of retail price), sold at retail price: host organisation keeps profit
Either way, audiences should be able to go home with a copy if they wish. The book, a ‘charged’ trace of the time-based experience, allows for the multiple strands of the story to resonate and deepen long afterwards. There are also further pages to discover that are not touched on by the audio.
Audience all seated on seats that are positioned equidistant, and facing in different directions.
If in a theatre, it can be either on stage or ideally take up the whole space, with tribune pushed back.
In this photo from Vidy Lausanne there are 40 chairs. The tribune (green and yellow) was an existing installation. The speakers are behind, and above.
How we run it︎︎︎
The lights and sound run together, automatically, via MIDI cues from either an Ableton Live project, or a QLab project.
When this isn’t possible technically the cues can be launched manually from the lighting desk.
For a full tech rider, please contact us: info@timebasededitions.com
Edition 01
À la limite du visible
Ant Hampton
77
minutes 232
pages
Y COMPRIS LIVRAISON DANS LE MONDE ENTIERAnt Hampton
77
minutes 232
pagesVersion live / événement collectif - info ici (en anglais: version française à venir)
« Votre compréhension de ce que peut être un livre changera à jamais ».- Lara Pawson
« Un cadre psychogéographique extrêmement engageant, enrichi constamment par l'esprit de recherche de Hampton et sa rage politique tranchante » - Marijn Lems, Theaterkrant (NL)
«...distillé avec subtilité et humanité… Magnifique manière d’approcher le politique par l’exploration, le temps long et la sensation. » - Marie-Pierre Genecand, Le Temps (CH)
Lauréat du prix DocLab 2023 de l'IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam) pour les technologies créatives
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« À la limite du visible » a été conçu par l’artiste Ant Hampton, également co-fondateur de Time Based Editions. Depuis 1999, son travail – dont le caractère « vivant » est essentiel – consiste à guider des personnes qu’il fait intervenir au sein de performances interactives non répétées, grâce à des dispositifs automatisés et un usage subtil d’instructions et de voix narratives.
« À la limite du visible », le premier né d’une série de livres live rassemblés sous le titre Time Based Editions dans lequel les photographies prennent vie grâce à une piste audio guidant le lecteur au fil des pages. Example video ici (en anglais)
Lauréat du prix DocLab 2023 de l'IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam) pour les technologies créatives
À la limite du visible commence par un voyage de Lausanne à Izmir entrepris par deux artistes et amis. Des problèmes de santé obligent l’un d’eux à s’arrêter en cours de route. Tandis que l’autre poursuit vers la Turquie, soudain seul, la narration se transforme en une psychogéographie émouvante et troublée, passant du « nous » au « je », du présent au passé, et qui tente, en les reconstituant, de donner une valeur et un sens aux ruines si humaines des ambitions, de l’Histoire et du langage. Le processus de recomposition employé par Hampton, minutieux et parfois même miraculeux, dévoile peu à peu une constellation : voix et séismes, diaspora sépharade, tourisme et migrations forcées, santé mentale, démence, fin de l’Empire Ottoman, martinets et hirondelles, The Waste Land de T.S. Eliot et un aperçu des atrocités cachées perpétuées aux confins de l’Europe, aujourd’hui financées en son centre.
ARTIST INFO ︎︎︎
Ant Hampton (1975, CH) est un artiste germano-britannique, auteur et créateur de performances. Depuis 1999, il utilise des dispositifs automatisés pour agir, en tant que guide, auprès de personnes qu’il fait intervenir au sein de performances interactives et non répétées. Il collabore notamment avec Tim Etchells, avec lequel il crée trois expériences participatives pour deux personnes, faisant varier les interactions entre matériel audio et papier : texte et lecture silencieuse (The Quiet Volume, 2010) ; photographies d'archives (Lest We See, 2015) ; marquage et gommage (Not to Scale, 2020). Plus récemment, sa pratique s’est élargie à une exploration plus vaste des prises de risques et des actes de foi, comme avec The Thing - An Automatic Workshop in Everyday Disruption, en collaboration avec Christophe Meierhans. Ces productions, tout comme celles de la série des Autoteatro, continuent à tourner à travers le monde, dans plus de 80 versions linguistiques différentes. Certaines peuvent même se dérouler sans que personne ne doive se rendre sur place – un résultat paradoxal pour un art où vie et présence sont essentielles, qui a nourri son projet de recherche engagée ShowingWithoutGoing.live, présenté sous forme d’atlas numérique en 2021.
En 2023, il co-fonde Time Based Editions avec David Bergé.
anthampton.com
CREDITS ︎︎︎
Version française:
À la limite du visible par Ant Hampton
Voix: Antoine Defoort
Montage: Ant Hampton
Traduction: Marion Schwartz
Studio d'enregistrement avec le soutien de Pianofabriek, Bruxelles
Borderline Visible, 77 min, 232 pages by Ant Hampton
Voice & sound, english version: Ant Hampton
Feedback: David Bergé
Book design: Roland Brauchli
Image retouching: Flavio Milani
Copy-editing: Neil Bennun
Printing and binding: SYL (Barcelona)
Typefaces: Elante, Rom and Unica
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
Published in 2023 by Time Based Editions
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)
« Un cadre psychogéographique extrêmement engageant, enrichi constamment par l'esprit de recherche de Hampton et sa rage politique tranchante » - Marijn Lems, Theaterkrant (NL)
«...distillé avec subtilité et humanité… Magnifique manière d’approcher le politique par l’exploration, le temps long et la sensation. » - Marie-Pierre Genecand, Le Temps (CH)
Lauréat du prix DocLab 2023 de l'IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam) pour les technologies créatives
« À la limite du visible » a été conçu par l’artiste Ant Hampton, également co-fondateur de Time Based Editions. Depuis 1999, son travail – dont le caractère « vivant » est essentiel – consiste à guider des personnes qu’il fait intervenir au sein de performances interactives non répétées, grâce à des dispositifs automatisés et un usage subtil d’instructions et de voix narratives.
« À la limite du visible », le premier né d’une série de livres live rassemblés sous le titre Time Based Editions dans lequel les photographies prennent vie grâce à une piste audio guidant le lecteur au fil des pages. Example video ici (en anglais)
Lauréat du prix DocLab 2023 de l'IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam) pour les technologies créatives
À la limite du visible commence par un voyage de Lausanne à Izmir entrepris par deux artistes et amis. Des problèmes de santé obligent l’un d’eux à s’arrêter en cours de route. Tandis que l’autre poursuit vers la Turquie, soudain seul, la narration se transforme en une psychogéographie émouvante et troublée, passant du « nous » au « je », du présent au passé, et qui tente, en les reconstituant, de donner une valeur et un sens aux ruines si humaines des ambitions, de l’Histoire et du langage. Le processus de recomposition employé par Hampton, minutieux et parfois même miraculeux, dévoile peu à peu une constellation : voix et séismes, diaspora sépharade, tourisme et migrations forcées, santé mentale, démence, fin de l’Empire Ottoman, martinets et hirondelles, The Waste Land de T.S. Eliot et un aperçu des atrocités cachées perpétuées aux confins de l’Europe, aujourd’hui financées en son centre.
ARTIST INFO ︎︎︎
Ant Hampton (1975, CH) est un artiste germano-britannique, auteur et créateur de performances. Depuis 1999, il utilise des dispositifs automatisés pour agir, en tant que guide, auprès de personnes qu’il fait intervenir au sein de performances interactives et non répétées. Il collabore notamment avec Tim Etchells, avec lequel il crée trois expériences participatives pour deux personnes, faisant varier les interactions entre matériel audio et papier : texte et lecture silencieuse (The Quiet Volume, 2010) ; photographies d'archives (Lest We See, 2015) ; marquage et gommage (Not to Scale, 2020). Plus récemment, sa pratique s’est élargie à une exploration plus vaste des prises de risques et des actes de foi, comme avec The Thing - An Automatic Workshop in Everyday Disruption, en collaboration avec Christophe Meierhans. Ces productions, tout comme celles de la série des Autoteatro, continuent à tourner à travers le monde, dans plus de 80 versions linguistiques différentes. Certaines peuvent même se dérouler sans que personne ne doive se rendre sur place – un résultat paradoxal pour un art où vie et présence sont essentielles, qui a nourri son projet de recherche engagée ShowingWithoutGoing.live, présenté sous forme d’atlas numérique en 2021.
En 2023, il co-fonde Time Based Editions avec David Bergé.
anthampton.com
CREDITS ︎︎︎
Version française:
À la limite du visible par Ant Hampton
Voix: Antoine Defoort
Montage: Ant Hampton
Traduction: Marion Schwartz
Studio d'enregistrement avec le soutien de Pianofabriek, Bruxelles
Borderline Visible, 77 min, 232 pages by Ant Hampton
Voice & sound, english version: Ant Hampton
Feedback: David Bergé
Book design: Roland Brauchli
Image retouching: Flavio Milani
Copy-editing: Neil Bennun
Printing and binding: SYL (Barcelona)
Typefaces: Elante, Rom and Unica
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
Published in 2023 by Time Based Editions
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)
ISBN: 9789464772609
Borderline Visible
Location
IDFA Vondelpavilion, Vondelpark
Date / Time
POSTPONED
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Only a month after winning the DocLab award for creative technologies at IDFA, Borderline Visible returns to Amsterdam, the first live event for audiences presented within IDFA's brand new home, the magnificent pavilion of the Vondelpark.
It will be presented as the ‘collective experience’ version on 13 December at 18.30 and again at 21h. English only.
Please note: the new NL version will be ready for Beyond the Black Box, early Feb - see upcoming events.
Link ︎︎︎
Borderline Visible
Location
Mixer Festival of Art and Journalism, Warsaw, Poland
Date / Time
Collective experience:
11.04.2024 19:00
+ Art & Journalism Exhibition (installation for individuals):
11-13.04.2024
Warsaw’s Mixer Festival presents Borderline Visible both as a collective event for audiences, in English, on 11 April, and for individuals as part of their Art & Journalism Exhibition running 11-13 April (visitors can choose from English, French and Dutch).
Link ︎︎︎
Borderline Visible
Location
IDFA, DocLab, Amsterdam (De Brakke Grond)
Date / Time
09-19.11.23 (DocLab)
Borderline Visible will be presented at IDFA, the world’s largest documentary festival, where it’s nominated for the DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling.
It will presented in the ‘collective experience’ version on 11, 13, 15 Nov, 12h (midday) at De Brakke Grond (details here).
It will also run throughout the DocLab exhibition from 9-19 Nov (details here).
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Borderline Visible / À la limite du Visible
Location
Kanal Centre Pompidou, Bruxelles (K1)
Date / Time
02.11.2023,18:00 + 19.30
Borderline Visible will be presented for two audiences of 40 at Kanal Centre Pompidou, in Brussels
Le 2 novembre, « À la limite du visible » sera présenté pour deux publics de 40 personnes au Kanal Centre Pompidou, à Bruxelles
A physical synchronisation of our hands throws us into a here-and-now of the page: printed photography brought alive by a soundscape that both guides and surrounds us in the space.
Une synchronisation physique de nos mains nous plongé·es dans l'instant présent de la page: la photographie imprimée prend vie grâce à l’accompagnement enveloppant d’un paysage sonore.
La narration française est d'Antoine Defoort.
Version française - 18.00
English version - 19.30
Q&A with Ant Hampton from 21:00 - 21:30, in English, moderated by Guy Gypens
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Image Generator, Kunsthal Extra City
Location
Antwerp, Belgium
Date / Time
29-30.09.23/18.30
The Image Generator is a site-specific two-day happening in a former Dominican monastery that explores the interplay between visual art, sound art and performance: twenty artists and nine organizations take over the spaces of Kunsthal Extra City and MORPHO.
Group sessions for Borderline Visible in English on both days, at 18.30 - places are limited, and there are no reservations, just show up. Individual sessions (FR, ENG) are available all the time.
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Miss Read, Berlin Art Book Fair
Location
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Date / Time
22-24.09.2023
You will find us next to the kyklada.press table, inside the main space of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Both TBE directors (Ant and David) will be present during the book fair each day from Friday 17:00 - 21:00
Saturday and Sunday 12:00 - 19:00.
Borderline Visible will be on sale for the first time. You can also take it to a quiet space somewhere in the building to experience (in English or French), either using your own phone and headphones, or equipment we can lend you.
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Athens Art Book Fair
Location
Athens Conservatoire
Date
6-8.10.23
You will find us at the kyklàda.press table, inside the fair, located at Multispace Ω3 of the Conservatory building. Opening Hours: Friday October 6 from 4-8pm, Saturday Oct 7 & Sunday Oct 8 12am-8pm.
Borderline Visible will be on sale. You can also take it to a quiet space somewhere in the building to experience (in English or French), either using your own phone and headphones, or equipment we can lend you.
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Location
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Date / Time
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Öğüt’s performance consists of hiring three performers to work in shifts. They are spinning monitors displaying Öğüt’s film and as part of the project, the performers are paid per hour as much as the Director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens (EMST). The project tends to expose and re-evaluate the hierarchies of pay and repute within cultural production.
Performers: Konstantina Barkouli, Evi Psaltou, Xenia V.Koghilaki
Duration: 3 hours
Part of the exhibition and public program of Labour after Pay, Love before Work – An Artworkers VIP Lounge of Ahmet Öğüt.
Performers: Konstantina Barkouli, Evi Psaltou, Xenia V.Koghilaki
Duration: 3 hours
Part of the exhibition and public program of Labour after Pay, Love before Work – An Artworkers VIP Lounge of Ahmet Öğüt.