Ant Hampton & Time Based Editions – Borderline Visible

DATES:
Monday, February 16, 2026
11:00 am—5:00 pm

Tuesday, February 17, 2026
11:00 am—5:00 pm

Wednesday, February 18, 2026
11:00 am—5:00 pm

Thursday, February 19, 2026
11:00 am—5:00 pm

Friday, February 20, 2026
11:00 am—5:00 pm

Saturday, February 21, 2026
11:00 am—5:00 pm

Sunday, February 22, 2026
11:00 am—3:00 pm
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Audio & visual experience

Ticket price includes a copy of the book, which contains a link to the audio track and can therefore be experienced again individually at any point, in multiple languages.

Borderline Visible begins as a journey from Lausanne to Izmir in 2022 by two artist friends, one of whom must stop. As the other continues towards Turkey, suddenly alone, the narration grows into a moving and troubled psychogeography as it shifts between ‘we’ and ‘I,’ present and past, piecing together value and meaning from the very human ruins of aspiration, history and language.

Ant 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 centre.

Ant Hampton is co-director of the Time Based Editions series, publisher of Borderline Visible. As with all Time Based Editions, an audio track combines narration, soundscape and instructions that guide you over  a given time through the book. Ticket price includes a copy of the book, which can be experienced again individually at any point in multiple languages.

“The book-as-performance becomes a kind of “survival process” that illuminates those excluded from the country of the visible.” —Daniel Sack

“Your understanding of what a book can be will change forever.” —Lara Pawson

“Hampton has been creating an international furore for years with his autoteatro performance works without actors … ‘Borderline Visible’ is an extraordinary experience … The interplay between soundscape and picture book works perfectly. Sometimes pages are black or you have to close your eyes, like black-outs in a film. Some pages you have to let slide past your fingers like an old filmstrip – then the landscape passes you by. Thus history, politics and art come together poignantly, in an intelligent work in which, after Hampton, the audience travels their own journey.” —De Volkskrant (NL) ★★★★☆

“an extremely engaging psychogeographical framework constantly enriched by Hampton’s searching mind and razor-sharp political rage.” —Marijn Lems, Theaterkrant (NL)

“…distilled with subtlety and humanity… A magnificent way of approaching politics through exploration, extended time, and touch.” —Marie-Pierre Genecand, Le Temps (CH)

Winner of the IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam) 2023 DocLab award for Creative Technologies.