SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

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