SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

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