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.

Each ticket includes a copy of the book Borderline Visible.

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

Format: 16,7x24cm

ISBN: 9789464772609
Pages: 232

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)

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