SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

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