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Ant Hampton with Tim Etchells, The Quiet Volume

  • February 17 - 21, 2026
  • Chatham Public Library

    11 Woodbridge Avenue
    Chatham, New York 12037
Ticket Price $25.00 Buy Tickets
Description

The Quiet Volume is a whispered, self-generated and ‘automatic’ performance for two at a time, exploiting the particular tension common to any library worldwide; a combination of silence and concentration within which different people’s experiences of reading unfold. Two audience members sit side-by-side taking cues from words both written and whispered—via an iPod and headphones—and find themselves burrowing an unlikely path through a pile of books. The piece exposes the strange magic at the heart of the reading experience, allowing aspects of it we think of as deeply internal to lean out into the surrounding space, and to leak from one reader’s sphere into another’s. 

“This now of the page is what grips me – the present moment, this one, summoned here with this arrangement of marks/code, ink/pixels, letters and words.”  – Tim Etchells.

Date & Time

Feb 17 - 21, 2026

Venue Details

Chatham Public Library

11 Woodbridge Avenue
Chatham, New York 12037 Chatham Public Library
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