BORDERLINE VISIBLE by Ant Hampton / Time Based Editions

Join us for a performance of *Borderline Visible* by the German-British artist Ant Hampton / Time Based Editions, which will be held at UMass Amherst, Smith College, and Amherst College on Oct 7, Oct 21, and Nov 20, respectively. 

This is a novel approach to book-based art, where pages become the stage for a performance that wrestles with issues of public and personal memory, voluntary travel and forced migration. With support from across the Five Colleges, we are thrilled to be able to present the East Coast premiere of this unique event.

**Tickets are free but space is limited. Reserve here:** https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemEI-FsPJWYDRNSsch6xlR73MRnj5EVAScYWMbliBLWT0jIw/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=104657530918961649684

***Borderline Visible*** (collective experience) by Ant Hampton / Time Based Editions

 Urgent and rolling, this 80-minute experience, fueled with music by Oren Ambarchi and Perila, pieces together value and meaning from the very human ruins of aspiration, history, and language, as it shifts back and forth along a journeyed path between Lausanne (Switzerland) and Izmir (Turkey). 

 Time Based Editions separates the audio and visual into two separate elements and holds them together in the present of a book. Collectively, we dive into a here-and-now of the page: printed photography brought alive by a soundscape that both guides and surrounds us. Ant Hampton’s careful, at times miraculous, process of reconnection gradually lights up a constellation: voices and earthquakes, Sephardic diasporas, forced movement, breakdowns and dementia, swifts and swallows, T. S. Eliot’s *The Waste Land*, and a unique insight into atrocities at the eastern edge of Europe being funded from its center.

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. Many of his “Autoteatro” works continue to 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 2021 advocacy and research project ShowingWithoutGoing.live – an Atlas. Together with David Bergé, he co-founded Time Based Editions in 2023. anthampton.com