SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

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