SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

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