Ant Hampton is a British-German performance maker and writer. His work has often involved guiding people through unrehearsed situations and interactive relations, using automated devices. In recent years, his practice has expanded into a wider investigation of risk-taking and leaps of faith. Together with David Bergé, he co-founded Time Based Editions in 2023, a series of live books combining print and audio. Borderline Visible is the first book in the series, featuring an audio track that combines narration, soundscape, and instructions. Borderline Visible is also a live experience, in which 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 center.
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