Ant Hampton “Borderline Visible”
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Date & Time
Sat, Feb 01 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Address (map)
1130 State St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Venue (website)
S.B. Museum of Art
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.
Each ticket includes the purchase of the book “Borderline Visible” by Ant Hampton—to be distributed preceding the performance.