SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

Location
Familiar
Unfamiliar
Engagement Period
One Performance / Workshop
Weekly sessions / Yearly Collaborations
The experience of participation as
Affirmative
Antagonistic
Active audience
mentally active
physical active
Situation with audience
Risky
Predictable
Absence as
compromise
benefit
Adaptation
Existing form
Showing Without Going
Responsibility
Individual
Shared
Preparation
Unrehearsed
Rehearsed
Relationship with audience
Trusting
Controlling
Control of participation
Guided / precise / careful / minimal
Anarchic / messy / unpredictable / expansive
Space & Connectivity
Offline
Online
Addressing absence and distance in the work
Address as an explicit content
Address as implicit content
Audience
witnessing
spectating
Responsibility
Artist
Host
Performer
Non-human
Human
Sensorial experience
One sense
Multiplicity of senses
Authorship
Copyright
Open Source
Required availability of the artist
Completely available
Completely unneccesary
Presence
Artist absent
Artist present
Identity of Artist
Known
Anonymous
Big / Little Brother
sense of guide's strong authority and control
sense of vulnerability / fragility in the guide, he/she/it needs our assistance
Format
Fixed / pre-recorded
Live / responsive
Travel
On foot
By plane
Audience
Spectator
Co-creator
Site
Neutral
Site-responsive / site-specific
Responsibility
Artist
Audience
Absence
Imposed
Chosen
Duration
A moment
Infinity
Experience
Individual
Collective
Mode of transmission
Experiential (i.e. physical, relational, immersive....)
Transference (i.e. representation, audience as observer....)
Laziness as
selective participation
energy management
Control
Lost
Total
Technology as
Tool
Co-creator
Technical Requirements
No Use of Technology Necessary
Advanced & Hi-Technology Necessary
Awareness of artifice, absence, (a)liveness
Aware / sure
Unaware / unsure