SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

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