Ant Hampton / Time Based Editions

British theater maker and audience favorite Ant Hampton returns to Noorderzon with his latest work Borderline Visible. With a book and guide, dive into a 77-minute experience about how language, history and people are connected across Europe. Hampton's collection of stories meanders back and forth between his journey from Lausanne to Izmir. 

Borderline Visible slowly and lovingly ties together the key moments of this journey; voices and earthquakes, Jewish diasporas, forced displacement, slumps and dementia, swifts and swallows, T.S. Eliot's “The Waste Land” and a chilling insight into the atrocities on the eastern edge of Europe funded from the center. As tensions around immigration politics and border issues continue to rise, this comfortably penetrating and poetic diary by our beloved “DIY theater” artist is more relevant than ever. 

This performance falls under the Pressure theme and you can get theme discounts. For more information, check out this page

English performances:
Monday 26th (5pm)
Tuesday 27th (3pm & 7pm)
Wednesday 28th (5pm)
Thursday 29th (3pm & 7pm).

Dutch performances:
Monday 26 (3pm & 7 pm)
Tuesday 27th (5pm)
Wednesday 28th (3pm & 7pm)
Thursday 29 (5pm). 

With aftertalk on August 26th at 18:40

Are you coming in a wheelchair? Please let us know via tickets@noorderzon.nl in advance

Ant Hampton (1975, CH) is a British-German performance maker and writer. His work since 1999 has often involved guiding people through unrehearsed situations and interactive relations, using automated devices. His three collaborations with Tim Etchells are participative experiences for two at a time, combining audio with different engagements with the page: text and silent reading (The Quiet Volume, 2010); archive photography (Lest We See, 2015); and mark-making/ erasure (Not to Scale, 2020). 

In more recent years his practice has expanded into a wider investigation of risk-taking and leaps of faith, for example with The Thing – An Automatic Workshop in Everyday Disruption, created with Christophe Meierhans. These and many other of his “Autoteatro” works continue to tour internationally in over 80 language versions, some of them without anyone needing to travel – an oxymoronic outcome for an art committed to liveness and presence which in turn informed his 2021 advocacy and researchproject: ShowingWithoutGoing.live – an Atlas. Together with David Bergé, he co-founded Time Based Editions in 2023. 

Credits Dutch version
Translation | Bruno de Wachter
Voice | Sébastien Hendrickx
Audio edit | Malu Peeters

This version is created with support of Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond (Amsterdam) / Spring Festival (Utrecht) / Noorderzon Festival (Groningen) / KANAL Centre Pompidou (Brussels) Studio support: with thanks to Pianofabriek Brussel 

Credits English version
Voice & Sound | Ant Hampton
Feedback | David Bergé
Book design | Roland Brauchli 

Published in 2023 by Time Based Editions

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).

The presentation of Borderline Visible at Noorderzon is a collaboration with Grand Theatre