SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

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