In 2022, Ant Hampton, a British artist who lives in the Netherlands, undertook a journey with a friend from Lausanne, Switzerland to Izmir, Türkiye. He published the book Borderline Visible to chronicle the trip, which is full of photographs of old hotels, swallows, collages, blank pages, and quotations from T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland.” As the story unfolds, Europe’s past, particularly the ghost of WWII, is shown to be part of Europe’s present.

As part of a live performance, Hampton will be reading his book with an accompanying projection and sound effects. The audience reads along with Hampton and learns that history and memorial are anything other than linear.

Ant Hampton (b. 1975) is a noted British-German performance maker and writer, who in 2023 co-founded Time Based Editions with David Bergé. This is the first performance of Borderline Visible in California. It has been performed at ExtraCity Kunsthall, Antwerp, Belgium; IDFA, OnStage, Amsterdam; Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels; and Vidy Théâtre, Lausanne, Switzerland.

The presentation of Borderline Visible is underwritten by the Early and Shirley Greif Charitable Trust, and the project was commissioned by the Resonance Foundation.

Each ticket includes the purchase of the book Borderline Visible by Ant Hampton—to be distributed preceding the performance.