SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

Mode of transmission
Experiential (i.e. physical, relational, immersive....)
Transference (i.e. representation, audience as observer....)
The experience of participation as
Affirmative
Antagonistic
Location
Familiar
Unfamiliar
Format
Fixed / pre-recorded
Live / responsive
Laziness as
selective participation
energy management
Control
Lost
Total
Situation with audience
Risky
Predictable
Engagement Period
One Performance / Workshop
Weekly sessions / Yearly Collaborations
Absence
Imposed
Chosen
Big / Little Brother
sense of guide's strong authority and control
sense of vulnerability / fragility in the guide, he/she/it needs our assistance
Duration
A moment
Infinity
Responsibility
Artist
Host
Experience
Individual
Collective
Performer
Non-human
Human
Awareness of artifice, absence, (a)liveness
Aware / sure
Unaware / unsure
Audience
Spectator
Co-creator
Required availability of the artist
Completely available
Completely unneccesary
Travel
On foot
By plane
Active audience
mentally active
physical active
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
Preparation
Unrehearsed
Rehearsed
Site
Neutral
Site-responsive / site-specific
Sensorial experience
One sense
Multiplicity of senses
Responsibility
Individual
Shared
Relationship with audience
Trusting
Controlling
Authorship
Copyright
Open Source
Adaptation
Existing form
Showing Without Going
Absence as
compromise
benefit
Responsibility
Artist
Audience
Audience
witnessing
spectating
Technology as
Tool
Co-creator
Control of participation
Guided / precise / careful / minimal
Anarchic / messy / unpredictable / expansive
Space & Connectivity
Offline
Online
Identity of Artist
Known
Anonymous
Presence
Artist absent
Artist present