SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

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