SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

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