SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

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