SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

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