This urgent 77-minute experience, fueled by 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 and Izmir.
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: voices and earthquakes, Sephardic diasporas, forced relocation, breakdowns and dementia, swifts and swallows, Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ and a unique insight into atrocities at the eastern edge of Europe being funded from its centre.
The book that is connected to this performance can be purchased after the performance. It is also possible to already buy the book while purchasing your ticket.
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Awards
- Resonance Foundation Grant (California)
- IDFA 2023 Special Jury Award for Creative Technologies
Review
Marijn Lems wrote about the performance for Theaterkrant: “In the stunning installation performance Borderline visible, Ant Hampton seizes upon a journey from Lausanne to Izmir for a reflection on migration, diaspora and genocide across history.” Read the entire review here.
Photo credits (c) Tanz im August / HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, photo: Dajana Lothert, 2021
