SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

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