SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

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