SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

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