SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

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