SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

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