SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

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