SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

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