SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

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