SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

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