SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

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