Borderline Visible (Portland)
Borderline Visible brings a photobook to life in a performance that fuses soundscape and narration.
An audio-guided experience with an artist book, Borderline Visible, begins as a journey from Lausanne, Switzerland, to Izmir, Turkey, 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, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, and an urgent insight into hidden atrocities at the edge of Europe being funded from its center. Based on a project conceived with Rita Pauls Published in 2023 by Time Based Editions: a series of books binding print to time, merging sound with paper Voice and Sound (English Version): Ant Hampton Book Design: Roland Brauchli Directed: David Bergé and Ant Hampton 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)
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Time Based EditionsVenue
New Expressive Works
Category
Immersive Audio & PodplaysTag
AudioStart date
September 11th, 2026
End date
September 13th, 2026
Audience Role
Reader/listener.
Ages: All ages
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About Time Based Editions
Each book is a unique work by a different artist/group. An audio track combines narration, soundscape, and instructions that guide you over a given time through a book. Audio and visual are separate elements here, held together in the present through physical participation; turning, flicking and comparing pages, diving into a here-and-now of the page. This liveness can be amplified when experienced together as a group. Time Based Editions are also presented as events for audiences; collective and synchronized engagements with the book in theaters, museums, and site specific locations.