Ant Hampton / Time Based Editions: 'Borderline Visible'

Saturday, Feb 1, 2025 from 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Santa Barbara Museum Of Art
1130 State Street
805-963-4364

Audio-Visual Live Performance / Storytelling

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 Trust, and the project was commissioned by the Resonance Foundation.

Location: Loeb Family Gallery

Cost:
$25 Students & Teachers
$30 Members
$40 Non-Members
Tickets INCLUDE the purchase of a copy Borderline Visible.

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