Shows

Not to Scale

Tim Etchells and Αnt Hampton | Great Britain/ Germany

Start Date: 28-06-2022 - 17:00 (16:00 CET)
End Date: 28-06-2022 - 21:00 (20:00 CET)Start Date: 29-06-2022 - 17:00 (16:00 CET)
End Date: 29-06-2022 - 21:00 (20:00 CET)Start Date: 30-06-2022 - 17:00 (16:00 CET)
End Date: 30-06-2022 - 21:00 (20:00 CET)Start Date: 01-07-2022 - 17:00 (16:00 CET)
End Date: 01-07-2022 - 21:00 (20:00 CET)Start Date: 04-07-2022 - 17:00 (16:00 CET)
End Date: 04-07-2022 - 21:00 (20:00 CET)Start Date: 07-07-2022 - 12:00 (11:00 CET)
End Date: 07-07-2022 - 14:00 (13:00 CET)Start Date: 08-07-2022 - 12:00 (11:00 CET)
End Date: 08-07-2022 - 14:00 (13:00 CET)Start Date: 11-07-2022 - 17:00 (16:00 CET)
End Date: 11-07-2022 - 21:00 (20:00 CET)Start Date: 12-07-2022 - 17:00 (16:00 CET)
End Date: 12-07-2022 - 19:00 (18:00 CET)Start Date: 13-07-2022 - 17:00 (17:00 CET)
End Date: 13-07-2022 - 19:00 (18:00 CET)

Foyer of the Society for Macedonian Studies
28, 29, 30 June and 1, 4, 11 July, 17:00-21:00
7 and 8 July, 12:00-15:00
12 and 13 July, 17:00-19:00

Not to Scale
by Tim Etchells and Αnt Hampton

Headphones + pencil, paper and eraser. For two at a time.
Not to Scale is a full-length Αutoteatro performance which draws two participants into shared experiments and intertwined processes of drawing, erasing and listening. Guided by a binaural soundtrack, participants create a shared journey using pencil on blank sheets of paper. Crude doodles soon come to life in a comical and unsettling picture book narrative that plays constantly with the tension between creation and destruction, life and death, energy and entropy.

Things – stories, pictures, ideas – appear and disappear constantly on the page, a site which starts to unfold into a lo-fi carnival of possibility; a carnage of crossing out, overlapped drawings and landscape traces.

Like Ant Hampton’s other 'Autoteatro' work, including his previous collaborations with Tim Etchells (The Quiet Volume, Lest We See), by simply following the prompts as best you can, things start to happen: performance is triggered from even the smallest movement. And they have never been so small.

Duration: 55'
Languages: English, Greek.

Not to Scale
by Tim Etchells and Ant Hampton

Sound Design and Edit: Ant Hampton
Management: Danila - Freitag Agency for the Performing Arts
Production: Ana Riscado
Touring and Production Assistant: Anna Chwialkowska

Greek version
curated by Prodromos Tsinikoris

Recording and sound edit: Sound Department NTNG
Voice: Lila Vlachopoulou

English version
Voice: Terry O’Connor

Created thanks to support from the following coproducing partners
Access Point, St Petersburg, Russia
Dublin Theatre Festival, Ireland
Teatro do Bairro Alto, Lisbon, Portugal
Noorderzon Festival of Performing Arts & Society, Groningen, The Netherlands
With thanks to Isambard Khroustaliov and Lothar Ohlmeier for allowing samples from their album 'Nowhere'

Tim Etchells
Tim Etchells is an artist and a writer based in the UK whose work shifts between performance, visual art and fiction. He has worked in a wide variety of contexts, notably as the leader of the world-renowned Sheffield-based performance group Forced Entertainment. Exhibiting and presenting work in significant institutions all over the world, he is currently Professor of Performance & Writing at Lancaster University. Etchells’ work has been shown recently at Tate Modern, Cubitt, Hayward Gallery and Bloomberg SPACE in London, at Turner Contemporary, The Grundy and Compton Verney in the UK, at Witte de With, Rotterdam, and MUHKA (Antwerp).

Ant Hampton
Ant Hampton is a British artist and performance maker based in Germany. His performance works are diverse in content and tone, yet consistently explore the tension between fixed formal or structural elements and what has to be lived and negotiated in the moment. For over 20 years he has explored a strategy of guiding peοple through unrehearsed performance situations. This developed to include the audience themselves - a strand of work that became known as Autoteatro, usually involving small-scale and intimate formats, sometimes site-specific eg in cafes for Etiquette, or library reading-rooms for The Quiet Volume. He often collaborates with other artists, including Christophe Meierhans, Britt Hatzius, Gert-Jan Stam, Ivana Müller, Anna Rispoli and Rita Pauls. Not to Scale is Ant’s third Autoteatro collaboration with Tim Etchells. In more recently years his practice has expanded into a wider investigation of radical trust, risk-taking and leaps of faith, most obviously via his ‘automatic workshop’ The Thing, and his multilingual project with Rita Pauls, Mouth Piece which brings him back to Thessaloniki in 2023.