Ant Hampton with Tim Etchells - Not to Scale

US premiere Audio experience / Participation Not to Scale is a full-length ‘autoteatro’ 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. By simply following the prompts as best you can, things start to happen: performance is triggered from even the smallest movement. 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.